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Old Jun 3, 2019 | 01:44 PM
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The sound of a 12A

Playing with a cell phone holder as a hoodlum-cam. The idea with the placement is that you don't see where, how fast, or all the moms with strollers I am scaring but still get some shifting and noises. Sounds is pretty decent; y'all like a 12A's hum?


I'm still dialing in the carb mixture screw after the car's resurrection. Every time it's colder or warmer than last time I did it, it gets a little off. So I occasionally get that slightly lumpy idle; there's no porting overlap, don't get too excited
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Old Jun 3, 2019 | 02:08 PM
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I can’t remember if this is the Holley in the car currently.
If so get used to making adjustments to it as temp/humidity/baro pressure changes. That’s life with a Holley carb. At least these days the gaskets are better quality and don’t shrink during periods of unuse and easier to clean up.
Every year after winter hibernation,a r&r and cleaning of carb with fresh gaskets was in order on my Mustangs and Shelbys that had pretty wild cams and wouldn’t have much drivability til carbs were gone thru .

One of the several reasons fuel injection appeals to me.
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Old Jun 3, 2019 | 02:30 PM
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It's a hogged Nikki. No elevation compensator or choke or anything so the overall tuning on it will probably always be a compromise. I have it set to idle cold w/o a choke, which means a slightly higher (1000) idle when warm.

I'd like to play with EFI on one of these, but 12A FBs have a lot of momentum toward using a carb. If/when I blow up this engine and decide to put a REW in it, I'm pretty sure I'll go with a standalone EFI.

I have a Buell Ulysses which you can tune/remap with a laptop computer, and I had a lot of fun tuning it with a laptop in my backpack, logging data and making adjustments. I was able to get it to Texas and back over the Rockies a couple times and the fueling behaved, so I think I did it right
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Old Jun 16, 2019 | 12:18 PM
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thanks for posting the video, but now i really, really miss my FB.

the car sounds healthy.
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Old Jun 16, 2019 | 03:12 PM
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Sounds great. Gives me some motivation to get my '81 out of the garage after three years and running again.
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Old Jun 18, 2019 | 10:21 PM
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Your mostly gonna gear the belt, but here's an EFI 12a I've been working on. (Swipe right for video in link below)

View this post on Instagram
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