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Make sure your vacuum diaphram is good. Have the vacuum hose hooked up with the timing light connected and watch the timing advance. Also check your accelerator pump on your carb. You can enrich it or lean it. If it is sputtering on takoff its probable too lean. Also is it not good from a dead stop or is it bad from a moving stop. The reason I ask that is my 75 truck with a recent 429 build was chugging from a moving stop, but I took off good from a stop, stop. I played with a lot of stuff. But I figured out that the tranny (C6) was not shifting down to 1st unless I was almost stopped. Also It had already shifted into 3rd gear by 35mph. Maybe your tranny is doing the same. I think the ford guys were trying to save fuel? If I want power I shift manually now. I think a good shift kit its in the works. Also I noticed the more I drove it the more power. It needs time to break it. Especially with molly rings. Good Luck, Rick