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Thanks for asking , but I think it`s adequate.
The fuel system has a 5 Gal. fuel cell #12 from the cell to the BG filter and BG400 pump then #10 to the BG reg and #8 to the carb. I`m getting 9 # at the line.

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I had one of the BG fuel filters like yours on my Duster between the pump and the tank, it is a 10 micron element Replace it with a 80 micron or bigger filter(move the BG up front between the pump and the regulator ) and you may be pleasently suprised on the results The only reason I found out about the element size being to small is when I put the wide ban on my car, it would start to go lean from the hit of the throttle all the way to the end of the 1/4. It wouldn't go lean enough to make it miss or lay over but it was lean enough to not run like other cars with similar engine power on the dyno Someone on here had said the same thnig about my filter so I called Magnefuel and they confirm that high volume electric race pumps don't like real fine filter elements before the pump Try bypassing the filter for one run and see

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I'm not sure about this and would like to know

Will gear effect MPH? I can see it effecting ET by 60 ft'ing better but HP calcs don't ask for gear. they just ask for HP and weight and since this car in question doesn't MPH either I have to question whether gear is the obvious reason. If anything, a really effed up converter might be the problem

like Cab said, maybe the filter is the problem but at 9 lbs crossing the line, Could that really be the problem? Now, if 9lbs is to much and your flooding the engine, I would think if your dumping way to much fuel in the motor it could be washing the plugs clean but they would probably be dripping but would cause the engine to be way down on power.

taking it to a chassis dyno is something I would do. maybe your timing light is off from the one used on the dyno. are the secondaries opening? when you figure this out, i'm sure we would all love to hear the results

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I'm sure his gauge says 9# but I will guarantee that
it isnt accurate otherwise it would be pouring past
the needle and seat... it could very well be too
small of a needle and seat but its the same stuff
that he ran on the dyno.... basically you used THEIR
ignition and THEIR fuel system so those are the places
I would look

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Since it's a new converter, and a Power Glide, I would definitely look there first..

I put a new converter in my 540" B1 w/Glide 3000#.. (thought it was making close to 900hp) and it went 9.40 @ 143..

Immediately took it out, put in a trusted converter, and went 8.78 @ 153+..




Chris..

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Since it's a new converter, and a Power Glide, I would definitely look there first..

I put a new converter in my 540" B1 w/Glide 3000#.. (thought it was making close to 900hp) and it went 9.40 @ 143..

Immediately took it out, put in a trusted converter, and went 8.78 @ 153+..




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ok, that's crazy. was the converter slipping that much or was it just so tight that it bogged the engine down? was the converter fixed and did it work after that?

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Turned out to be a bad stator/sprag combo..

Brand new converter.. Was fixed, and went .05 slower than my current converter, but same mph..

But, it was .1 and 1.5-2 mph slower t-stop racing.. (Supposed to be a copy of my other converter, but with a sprag, to get more mph) Didn't happen..

Glides and converters are very touchy.. But once you find one you like, you'll fight to the death to keep it..



Chris..

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Thanks for asking , but I think it`s adequate.
The fuel system has a 5 Gal. fuel cell #12 from the cell to the BG filter and BG400 pump then #10 to the BG reg and #8 to the carb. I`m getting 9 # at the line.

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I had one of the BG fuel filters like yours on my Duster between the pump and the tank, it is a 10 micron element Replace it with a 80 micron or bigger filter(move the BG up front between the pump and the regulator ) and you may be pleasently suprised on the results The only reason I found out about the element size being to small is when I put the wide ban on my car, it would start to go lean from the hit of the throttle all the way to the end of the 1/4. It wouldn't go lean enough to make it miss or lay over but it was lean enough to not run like other cars with similar engine power on the dyno Someone on here had said the same thnig about my filter so I called Magnefuel and they confirm that high volume electric race pumps don't like real fine filter elements before the pump Try bypassing the filter for one run and see

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Thanks that`s an easy one off the list !
chryco

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I'm not sure about this and would like to know

Will gear effect MPH? I can see it effecting ET by 60 ft'ing better but HP calcs don't ask for gear. they just ask for HP and weight and since this car in question doesn't MPH either I have to question whether gear is the obvious reason. If anything, a really effed up converter might be the problem

like Cab said, maybe the filter is the problem but at 9 lbs crossing the line, Could that really be the problem? Now, if 9lbs is to much and your flooding the engine, I would think if your dumping way to much fuel in the motor it could be washing the plugs clean but they would probably be dripping but would cause the engine to be way down on power.

taking it to a chassis dyno is something I would do. maybe your timing light is off from the one used on the dyno. are the secondaries opening? when you figure this out, i'm sure we would all love to hear the results

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I'm sure his gauge says 9# but I will guarantee that
it isnt accurate otherwise it would be pouring past
the needle and seat... it could very well be too
small of a needle and seat but its the same stuff
that he ran on the dyno.... basically you used THEIR
ignition and THEIR fuel system so those are the places
I would look

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The custom Gary Williams carb was used and was unaltered from the dyno testing . Definitely worth opening up again for another look though. I think I have to get the motor making power before questioning the converter at this point though.
Thanks !
chryco

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What type of timing light are you using ? I was using a SNAP-ON adjustable on my car it was 8 degrees off!!!!

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A very basic Suntune mag pick up one . I don`t care for the adjustable ones for that reason ! I`m locked in at 35 deg total just like on the dyno pull .

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Considergetting a sportsman unit from Racepak.

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I'm not sure about this and would like to know

Will gear effect MPH? I can see it effecting ET by 60 ft'ing better but HP calcs don't ask for gear. they just ask for HP and weight and since this car in question doesn't MPH either I have to question whether gear is the obvious reason. If anything, a really effed up converter might be the problem

like Cab said, maybe the filter is the problem but at 9 lbs crossing the line, Could that really be the problem? Now, if 9lbs is to much and your flooding the engine, I would think if your dumping way to much fuel in the motor it could be washing the plugs clean but they would probably be dripping but would cause the engine to be way down on power.

taking it to a chassis dyno is something I would do. maybe your timing light is off from the one used on the dyno. are the secondaries opening? when you figure this out, i'm sure we would all love to hear the results

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Yup ! Definitely food for thought, I`m going to bench test the system by running it with and without the filter and accurately timing it filling a gallon container. The secondaries ARE going wide open too (dang ! ). It`s uncanny though how consistant this thing is . Always 139.4 MPH. Almost like a throttle stop ! Can`t wait to get this thing sorted .
Thanks !
chryco

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Still sounds like a converter issue to me. If the car is not spinning the 60 foot is a little lazy even for the MPH that you are running right now. WIth the glide my guess would be your shift recovery is pretty slow, Would be interesting to see a time slip to see how strong the car is pulling from 1000 to 1320 feet to get an idea of how much power the car is actually making. With out more data pretty tought to diagnose further but the combination (independant of the dyno numbers) under your conditions should see another 10 MPH and run closer to 8.90s (if the chassis is sorted out as well). Similiar to others experiences with my old car just a converter and some chassis tweaking netted a 5 tenths improvement. That was with a lower powered wedge combo going from 10.3 to 9.8 MPH increaseds 7 MPH. Went from an 8 inch converter to 9 inch and never looked back.

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