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well, i had one of those moments today. I confused some of you (and myself) beyond all reason trying to diagnose a problem after the build of my 425.
I got the timing dialed in, carb tuned, changed the distributor from points to electronic, got rid of the factory resistor wire, bigger valve springs, and several other things(all things that I'm glad I did anyway) trying to figure out why my engine didn't seem to be producing the power that I knew it should. I even began to consider the fact that my cam might be too much for the mild build I just finished. At this point I'm almost heart broken that this beautiful 425 sitting in there is not much more than an anchor. Come to find out, in my haste, the connectors for the VP torque converter & kickdown were both disconnected. I probably would have figured this out much sooner, but the car isn't fit to go out on the road yet. I don't know how many times I uttered this sentence "It sounds so good when it's in park. It really roars like a beast, but when I drop it into drive & stomp it, it struggles to turn that one tire over". Where's my sign??
Granted, this is my first olds, my first engine build, and my first experience with a switch pitch. Also, I don't recall for sure, but there may have been some premature celebration the night the engine went back into the car to cause such oversight.
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