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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 12:50 PM
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My car drives fine when i drive it normally, but when i chomp on it it goes for a bit and falls on its face.Could it be a vacuum leak thats making it do that.Open to all opinions.Thanx
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 01:51 PM
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Does any havesomevacuum daigrams for a rochester quadrajet???
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 02:49 PM
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sounds like it is running out of fuel .go to www.nastyz28.com for diagrams.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 05:23 PM
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I cant find anything on that web site.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:19 PM
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Hello ! anyone
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:53 PM
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What is done to your engine..and what size carb do you have?
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 01:49 PM
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Its a 350 out of a 76 truck.I have a rebuilt rochester quadrajet.Its been doing it worse since i changed the headers!
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 02:01 PM
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you may have it under carbed..
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 02:20 PM
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Under carbed?........What do you mean exactly? Never heard that before!
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 03:15 PM
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could be that the carb is too small..or a simple vacume leak..depends on what you mean by falls on it's face..
 
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