jmel
Well-known member
I've brought this up before...have tinkered a bit, and think its time to bring it up again.
I had a a 305 with a stock cam, quadrajet carb, & stock torque converter. I picked up a thumper cam from comp cams and while it absolutely sounded kick *** - it would stall whenever i put it into gear. Had to put it into neutral when coming to a stop. Am afraid that its a bit rough on the tranny constantly throwing it into neutral and back into gear...on top of the fact that its a pain in the ***.
First thought was that i needed a higher torque converter. Called comp cams to get their recommendation and they stated that the stock torque converter should work just fine. They thought it was the rochester carb that i'm running. Stated that it requires more vacuum than that cam can produce.
Don't have money to dump into new carb (although if a good deal on tri power came along, i'd probably wh0re myself out to get the money). I'm about to put old cam back in but kills me to lose that sound.
Any other options that i'm overlooking? I heard mention of a vacuum reserve tank? But know nothing about them.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
I had a a 305 with a stock cam, quadrajet carb, & stock torque converter. I picked up a thumper cam from comp cams and while it absolutely sounded kick *** - it would stall whenever i put it into gear. Had to put it into neutral when coming to a stop. Am afraid that its a bit rough on the tranny constantly throwing it into neutral and back into gear...on top of the fact that its a pain in the ***.
First thought was that i needed a higher torque converter. Called comp cams to get their recommendation and they stated that the stock torque converter should work just fine. They thought it was the rochester carb that i'm running. Stated that it requires more vacuum than that cam can produce.
Don't have money to dump into new carb (although if a good deal on tri power came along, i'd probably wh0re myself out to get the money). I'm about to put old cam back in but kills me to lose that sound.
Any other options that i'm overlooking? I heard mention of a vacuum reserve tank? But know nothing about them.
Any suggestions or thoughts?