I swapped out the orange box. installed a five prong black box. it is bolted to the firewall. I'll try the ground wire idea out. Thanks!

An OE 5 pin box (has a functioning 5th pin) requires the 4 terminal "dual" ballast & its attending wiring. Aftermarket ones with a dummy 5th pin (has no continuity to anything) works with a "single" or "dual" ballast/wiring. The 5th pin is the terminal that the red/green wire is on in the pentastar connector.

My dad had a car that did things like that, it turned out to be the winding in the distributor coil had an open and when it got hot it quit.

Very helpful info! Thanks.

Check for exhaust leaks.

Hey guys, car starts right up. Idles strong and drives normally until I get up to around 35-40mph. The engine sounds like its starving for fuel. I checked my fuel filter and there was hardly anything in it.

get a gas can & a length of common 5/16 neoprene fuel hose & plumb the gas to the pump inlet with the can in the eng compartment or inside on pass side & retry it. some carbs have a mini coarse filter behind the inlet nut. next is what Dayclona said, try another pump. that would cover about everything fuelwise that I could think of. didn't read back thru all posts but float level is good, I dont think that could be it (unless a WOT issue) but K.I.S.S. is always a good plan