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my old foe the duraspark

been working on a '91 mustang mini stock, trouble is it has burnt out 2 boxes. I put a different one on and it ran for once, had to keep feathering it to run, then I shut it off after like 5 min, it sounded like it fought timing for a min. then backfired now it just turns over, and the box is getting warm again, is there something screwball I'm missing here?
specs:
91 mustang lx 4cyl hatch back *has a 85 svo nose and hood*
oval port head with 2bbl intake and motorcraft carb *rules said stock carb*
'83 Cougar *the never ending project* warmed over 306 v8,c4,8.8 posi with 5 lug conversion
'91 mustang strictly street-in progress
'00 f150 7700-Mean Green: jet stage 1 chip,ported upper intake with 1" spacer,'04 Super Duty intake with injectors,summit racing short tube headers with true 2.5" duals with smithy's glasspacks!

 

my old foe the duraspark

Reply #1
Is it grounded properly?
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Reply #2
been wondering that now sitting here probably need to run a bigger gauge ground wire, btw the needing to feather the gas; could the carb be too much, it came off a 2bbl 351m from a 79 bronco
'83 Cougar *the never ending project* warmed over 306 v8,c4,8.8 posi with 5 lug conversion
'91 mustang strictly street-in progress
'00 f150 7700-Mean Green: jet stage 1 chip,ported upper intake with 1" spacer,'04 Super Duty intake with injectors,summit racing short tube headers with true 2.5" duals with smithy's glasspacks!

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Reply #3
Quote from: 86Tbuzzard;233616
been wondering that now sitting here probably need to run a bigger gauge ground wire, btw the needing to feather the gas; could the carb be too much, it came off a 2bbl 351m from a 79 bronco


What compression?
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Reply #4
Quote from: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87;233619
What compression?


in the stang or the truck it came from? the engine is a stock '91 2.3 4cyl, with like a stock '79 mustang/pinto head
'83 Cougar *the never ending project* warmed over 306 v8,c4,8.8 posi with 5 lug conversion
'91 mustang strictly street-in progress
'00 f150 7700-Mean Green: jet stage 1 chip,ported upper intake with 1" spacer,'04 Super Duty intake with injectors,summit racing short tube headers with true 2.5" duals with smithy's glasspacks!

my old foe the duraspark

Reply #5
Think about that for a second. Youre using a carb for a stock 5.8 liter engine on a stock 2.3 liter engine.
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Reply #6
Quote from: 86Tbuzzard;233622
in the stang or the truck it came from? the engine is a stock '91 2.3 4cyl, with like a stock '79 mustang/pinto head



You are probly flooding it out also,I used a 360 carb on one i had built but it was near 13.1.
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1973 maverick Tijuana Taxi Tribute
1957 chevy LSX Turbo project (race car)
Owner of Joe Dirt Fabrication

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Reply #7
Quote from: bhazard;233636
Think about that for a second. Youre using a carb for a stock 5.8 liter engine on a stock 2.3 liter engine.


it is still a sub 350cfm carb
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1973 maverick Tijuana Taxi Tribute
1957 chevy LSX Turbo project (race car)
Owner of Joe Dirt Fabrication

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Reply #8
Are you using Motorcraft boxes? I couldn't keep a Autozone/Advance Auto box in my car for more than a couple of weeks. Put a dingy old motorcraft box in that I got from a junkyard to get me home and I never had a problem with it since.
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Reply #9
Quote from: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87;233680
You are probly flooding it out also,I used a 360 carb on one i had built but it was near 13.1.


yeah the track i'm at says it must be a stock rebuild...lmao show me one stock car, go ahead i dare you. i'm gonna rebuild the carb ect this winter, jet it down a lil, it's not terrible, just a lil off when you first hit it,high rpms it loves, found out the week i was going down that there's no race and the week after I'm going to the englishtown swap meet * was alot of tbird/cougar and ford in general stuff in april*...so next year it'll give me some time mess with the suspension.
'83 Cougar *the never ending project* warmed over 306 v8,c4,8.8 posi with 5 lug conversion
'91 mustang strictly street-in progress
'00 f150 7700-Mean Green: jet stage 1 chip,ported upper intake with 1" spacer,'04 Super Duty intake with injectors,summit racing short tube headers with true 2.5" duals with smithy's glasspacks!