Thread: '66 Chevelle, big block

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Well, time for an update. I sent it off to Kooks' Headers in NC, they did a beautiful job making the headers and entire stainless exhaust.
They sent it back last week and i was able to get back on it and finished it up this week. I took it next door where they stuck an inspection sticker on it and i gave it a short test ride yesterday evening. Man, this thing has got some power! 1st gear was very managable and putted around just fine - you just don't want to push your foot down unless theres lots of room around you.
I took it out of town a couple miles and came back, the carb is getting trash from something, the idle ckt is screwed and it acts like the floats are too high. But i never got out of 4th and wondered why there is 2 more gears in the tranny.
I'll get some pics of the exhaust.

Man-o-man what a job getting this thing to act right! This is a brand new aed dominator that came with the engine. When i test drove it i had a low rpm/mph surge and it wouldn't idle right. I back the idle adjustment screws out as far as possible and that helped. The idle air bleeds have no numbers and i don't have a complete drill set to figure out what they are (.070ish i'd say), i went into the idle restrictors and found them to be .031ish. I drilled them to .035 and set the carb back on the engine and connected it to the innovative LM2, the afr was still 20ish. I then drilled the restrictors to .041 and now the afr is 13ish and the idle screws are still at the end of adjustment.
I think i'll strart dropping the idle bleeds (instead of drilling the idle restrictors any more) down until i get 12ish afr with the idle screws at about 3/4 turn.
What do you guys think?