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THe 440 RT was a 15 second car and the Hemi was a mid 14 second car stock.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/112_6706_dodge_hemi/photo_04.html
I have not dialed in the Eddy. Straight out of the box except float and idle circuit tune for max vacuum.

I have a bung on each side. Do I have to do a separate run for each side??

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I see a two runs of 15.4 and 14.7 for the RT and the car had the Cleaner Air Package Lots of these cars ran well into the 14s. Don't settle for less!

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THe 440 RT was a 15 second car and the Hemi was a mid 14 second car stock.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/112_6706_dodge_hemi/photo_04.html
I have not dialed in the Eddy. Straight out of the box except float and idle circuit tune for max vacuum.

I have a bung on each side. Do I have to do a separate run for each side??

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I see a two runs of 15.4 and 14.7 for the RT and the car had the Cleaner Air Package Lots of these cars ran well into the 14s. Don't settle for less!

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Reading the article I caught this: "Both cars came with the standard 7.75 x 14 Red Streak tires, and running them this way with two aboard and test equipment netted best quarter-mile times of 15.4 seconds and 94 mph for the Magnum."

You're talking 4-500 lbs of extra weight here, or .4-5 seconds. With CAP.

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a little hard to help when we don't know the actual performance of the car. It might be exactly where it should be and your expectations are too high, or the thing is a total turd, we just can't tell.

My experience is when a guy does not know specifics like pistons and compression ratio, it is usually not good, i.e. very low. You should do a cylinder pressure test. Also, it would be helpful to know the cam.

There could be several reasons that it is under performing:
1) like Cab said, fuel delivery. It can rob power like no other, and unless you test it, you won't know.
2) Plugged or internal failure of muffler. This has happened to me twice. That is an instant loss of 30 + hp, but every thing seems fine.
3) Low compression.
4) Poor heads.
5) Poor tune


The factory intake is the biggest bottle neck on an already good running 440. It is done at 5000 and getting the motor to go past 5200 is a challenge.

A good set of 915s with some porting, good cam, decent compression ratio and a good tune will result is a car that runs very well, even with factory intake and the 4327 carb.

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I have never raced the car but have driven a mid 14 second car and this is not close. I honestly think my Avalanche would give it a good run. Maybe 16s.

Mufflers new and good exhaust system.

Would I pull 20" vacuum with such low compression?

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Um have you done the simple stuff, like check if you're getting full throttle? Check if secondaries are opening, check your full advance timing? Alot of the time the simple stuff is the culprit.

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THe 440 RT was a 15 second car and the Hemi was a mid 14 second car stock.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/112_6706_dodge_hemi/photo_04.html
I have not dialed in the Eddy. Straight out of the box except float and idle circuit tune for max vacuum.

I have a bung on each side. Do I have to do a separate run for each side??

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I see a two runs of 15.4 and 14.7 for the RT and the car had the Cleaner Air Package Lots of these cars ran well into the 14s. Don't settle for less!

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Reading the article I caught this: "Both cars came with the standard 7.75 x 14 Red Streak tires, and running them this way with two aboard and test equipment netted best quarter-mile times of 15.4 seconds and 94 mph for the Magnum."

You're talking 4-500 lbs of extra weight here, or .4-5 seconds. With CAP.

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You do need to look closely at those old track tests. What you describe was common. Actual test weight could be as high as 4300 to 4500 lb.

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I wouldn't throw money at this till you figure out what's wrong currently. You should have more punch than implied.
Low vacuum at idle concerns me. I would expect at least 16". No power at 5000 is also troubling.
If this was a ulti keyway timing set you may be way over advanced btdt and have the broken rockers to prove it.

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Um have you done the simple stuff, like check if you're getting full throttle?

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You are right on. It actually was worse before. I had my son hammer pedal to floor and went and adjusted throttle cable. Was not opening all of the way.

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That was it? How much better is it running now with just that 1 change?

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You are right on. It actually was worse before. I had my son hammer pedal to floor and went and adjusted throttle cable. Was not opening all of the way.

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That was it? How much better is it running now with just that 1 change?

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We probably have similar builds and I am not impressed with my car either.. While it sounds like my car runs better than yours, still not very impressive in the "seat of the pants" test.. I think biggest problem is my 2.94 rear gears, as I just cruise the car, not interested in racing it...

I did not check cam gearing or if my original damper timing mark has slipped, so I can't complain, just giving you some feedback..
Stock 040 over 440
Original carb, exhausts, 915 heads, forged pistons, heads milled to appx 9.5-1 ( CC,d) 375 hp stock ( new) cam,..

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Measuring the cylinder pressure is what needs to be done.

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Measuring the cylinder pressure is what needs to be done.

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I agree with this. Until you know what cylinder pressure you have, you won't know which way to go for improvements. I'd also ping the builder to see if he can provide cam specs. If it was built with stockish compression (the overbore lowers it, btw, if you use stock height pistons) and he put in a bigger performance cam, then you have a recipe for sluggish response due to low cylinder pressure.

If the cranking pressure is low, the best stealth approach may be to swap cams to one that build more cylinder pressure. more pressure = more power.

However, by all means, dial in the carb and timing. That is never a wasted effort.

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We probably have similar builds and I am not impressed with my car either.. While it sounds like my car runs better than yours, still not very impressive in the "seat of the pants" test.. I think biggest problem is my 2.94 rear gears, as I just cruise the car, not interested in racing it...

I did not check cam gearing or if my original damper timing mark has slipped, so I can't complain, just giving you some feedback..
Stock 040 over 440
Original carb, exhausts, 915 heads, forged pistons, heads milled to appx 9.5-1 ( CC,d) 375 hp stock ( new) cam,..

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