After installing my new radiator, I took my car for a ride through the mountains. The car did amazing temp. wise but on steep inclines the car seems to be running out of fuel and will even shut the car off. When I pull off it cranks right up and idles fine. But when I start up the incline it starts again. So my guess is because of the steep incline and the carburetor not sitting level that the car is starving for fuel. Is there anyway I can fix this? I know they make carbs for rock climbing trucks but don't know how they would work on a camaro. Thanks, Josh

Also here are a couple of pictures I took once I finally made it to the top.

 

Depending on what model your 82 is, it came with either a carb or FI. If yours is an FI conversion, are you using the electric pump with a pressure regulator, or has the pump been bypassed? Mountain roads and carburetors have been together long before fuel injection came around, so something else must be up. What carb do you have, and is the float level set right? How much gas is in the tank, and does this happen with a full tank?

 

As Camaro 69 said. Could be a low float level, but could also be that not enough fuel is getting to the carb to handle the fuel needs when the engine us pulling hard and long. May want to look at the fuel filters, both the in-line filter and the small filter on the carb inlet, if that is what your car is using.

 

It's a small block 400 and I have a 670 street avenger carb. The car had a little over a quarter of a tank when I was going through the mountain. Also I'm running a stock mechanical fuel pump. I check the float levels when I got home and my front was right below the sight glass and the back was too high and I adjusted it down. Also I had the car in overdrive. Someone told me this could be the issue having it in over drive and having 2.76 gears that it was bogging the car down.

 

What type of transmission do you have? If you have an automatic, it should drop out of overdrive when under heavy load, whether the shifter is in overdrive or not. If you have a manual transmission, drop it down a few gears when climbing hills, 2:76 final drive and overdrive is case of overkill.

 

I have a 700R in the car. Could this be the problem?

 

Only if it's not down-shifting, which it should be. You should be able to feel and/or hear when it downshifts, and watch the rpm's climb as it does.