Rusty's not very quiet cuda progress

He's a glutton for punishment, got all the pieces fitted up for the final cuts & then started cutting out the lower corner of the cab!
The empty spot in front of the Z we have to make.

RUSTY Cuda said:

He's gonna por 15 the rest of the frame.
I gave up on that stuff after the problems it caused on the first car, I guess for under there it's fine?

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I'm not convinced that stuff is any better than Industrial Rustoleum. I've got black paint all over the floor from laying under the Duster brushing that stuff on.

First car I had a few issues with it, other parts held fine, & I tried to follow their instructions to the T.
This car is all spray bomb rustolium rusty metal primer everywhere, lot of people po poooed that, so far nothings peeling off?

Kinda back to square one, Go out today & start her up, geeze the gauge is reading just over 4, hasn't done that in awhile, so I play with the adjustment which is almost all the way in, this reg. is supposed to be from 4 to 10LBS.
Would not go up much, so I set it at 3, let her run awhile it then dropped to 1 & even lower, barley over zero, the idle speed or sound of the engine never changed.
So I'm like I can't trust this thing, remembered I had an in line gauge somewhere, dug around a bit & found it, removed the reg. & put that in started her up & running around 7.
Still no response from the carb adjustment screws, it did stall when I covered the top of the carb, checking the vac leak deal.
Pulled a plug before I took the test drive. took the test drive, actually seemed to idle a little smoother, no big clouds of smoke, went on some main roads so I could at least do 45-50.
Kickdown worked again & got another nice chirp
Cooled it down a bit & piled the plug again, doesn't look terrible to me, I'd say the exhaust stinks a bit more, but no big black clouds, some gray puffs.
Same plug (#1) At least it was nice to be out of the garage!
Gonna try & get a video up.

The new setup............

Hope this works

With an Eddy carb your idle fuel pressure should be no more than 6 psi at idle. The 2nd pic of the plug is a major improvemnt over the 1st. But still slightly darker than ideal. It seems that you are getting closer.

Well now we went through 2 pressure regulators, I hesitate to buy another, but it's now an easy setup.
I keep going back to your fuel filter with the bypass, but that will be a pain trying to turn my vapor return line into a fuel return, I do have a return stub on my fuel pick up unit????
So it's not connected to anything up front & out back just pull it off the Seperator in front of the tank & hose it over to the return stub, just don't feel like crawling around under there.

Will 1 lb less actually make the adjustments work, the mixture screws do NOTHING?