tmking66

Ok, I have been working with this thing for several weeks now and am getting nowhere fast. I have posted on this subject several times and still have not found the answer so lets run this by everyone again and see if anything new turns up.

The car is an 82 gsl with auto tranny. "Rats nest" has been removed. Everything else is stock.

Symptoms: Car idles fine. Smooth steady idle at 750rpms and timing both leading and trailing is right on the mark. Car will not rev. past about 1500rpms without dying. If I restrict the airflow into the primary barrels of the carb. the engine will rev. fine. Once the engine is reving above 2k rpms I can punch the gas as hard as I like and it revs normally all the way to redline without a hitch. I can let off the gas at high rpms and it drops back to idle without a problem but I cant get it to rev. from and idle to above 1500 rpms unless I restrict the air flow into the carb. I have replaced the accel. pump and it seems to be working correctly. I do not know where to go from here except for a complete teardown and rebuild of the carb. I would like to know what is causing the problem though before I blindly start "fixing" things and dumping money into parts that I may not need. Does this situation sound familiar to anyone out there?

Please help.

Thanks

FirebirdSlayer666

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Sounds kind of like your floats are restricting fuel flow. My carb was dumping too much fuel into the motor and all we had to do was take the top off the carb and replace the floats. Send me a PM and give me some more specific details.

Kentetsu

Could be clogged jets too. Sounds like a carb rebuild is in your future...

jays83gsl

I concur.