mgb327 wrote:Took me a while, but I dug up this "paper" photo of the B. I have a lot more on an outboard hard drive, just need some time to plug it in. This had a hydraulic throttle and clutch because there was NO room in there. Custom radiator and fans for cooling, and the headers were a pain to fabricate. Mufflers ended up under where your feet would be in the front seat, and the heat was too much, did an asbestos floorboard gig. Saginaw 3 speed. Lots of metal massage, designing and redesigning, fit and refit. It was a fun car, was very dependable. It is in Chicago now on the show circuit last I heard. I put 45,000 miles on it. Got it rolling in first, went straight to third and just let it fly.....
What a nice installation, Mgb327! "...
just let it fly..." makes sense -- the 327 is a high-reving high-HP engine -- wide 350 bore on an older shorter stroke.
Much of your good driveability probably came from that carburetor. It's being sold with the Edelbrock name on it these days, but it is actually the old Carter AFB from decades ago. Quite possibly the best carburetor ever designed. So you did well with that choice.
On that note.... I worked in a Chrysler dealership in the 1970s. Some of the "muscle" cars had come from the factory with a Holley four-barrel -- the usual "hot rod" carb. Those cars soon became almost undrivable. We developed a trick to straighten the warped metering body, which helped a little, but then the factory came out with a recall fix: We installed a Carter AVS instead. The AVS is a close cousin to the AFB. Those cars ran like magic carpets ever since.
