Hiya,

Changed oil to Brad Penn 20-50 Cause it's what the speed shop had. Valve lash is half a turn in from top of lifters. I wobbled the push rods at the back of the cam lobes and turned them in a half. Put on a Wix racing oil filter.

So, today I started with the plugs Sorry they're NGKs and not Bosch. My bad. I found cylinders 1 and 3 oil fouled and not appearing to be sparking. What? Rats. So I changed them and inspected the wires. All else was fine until cylinder 6 which the back of the boot appeared to be burnt. I even had a heat shield on the wire. The plug looked fine but I switched out the wire anyway. I adjusted the choke on the 750 and pluged in the vacuum advance and swiched caps from the borrowed one to my own.

So, what's wrong with those 2 cylinders? Am I looking at another bottom end? Probably. Strange those 2 are bad but the rest fine. I cleaned and checked gap on all.

Well, to make a long story short the gremlin is gone again. The car runs like a striped ape. That oversized carburetor definatly has some hair on it. however, I had not the chance of kicking the secondaries in yet. I wonder if it's jetted too small back there. All I did was drive the car a few blocks to replace some crazy lady's motor mount. One stoplight is on an uphill incline and both tires broke loose without even trying. A lot of pedal left too. I'm beginning to like that carburetor. It's definatly got more go than the Edelbrock which May I add, was a toilet. All the venturies and even the air filter stem was coated with black soot. Yuck. Well, with that new limited slip. The tires don't break loose like they did but the car just goes! I guess that's good for drag racing but it's hard to show off now.
Mrs Goodwrench wants me to get a torque converter now. 2500 stall. It'll get that heavy car moving but I wondering what it'll do to any remaing gas mileage. I don't know but i'm guessing that 750 will drop the gas mileage from 7 to 2. The looser converter will guess me thinking of feet per gallon instead of miles. And I need to be thinking short block I guess.
Not sure what to do. Should i listen to Mrs Goodwrench? Or, work on another short block or both? So much car, so little money.