Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle View Post
Roger, until I read your post, I never thought of checking the manifold angle. With all the changes I made in tires and stance - I wondered I if I was off. I put the protractor on it, and it read zero. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.
Glad yours was right, Jack! Bonus! Mine? Not so easy. I unbolted the tranny mount and started slowly dropping the tail while watching the angle on the carb plate and as it approached between one and two degrees nose down it stopped. Turns out the tailshaft catches the front crossmember of the ladder bars - these automatics are long! Not only that but the tranny pan will be by far the low point hanging down, I'll have to do some firewall work to have room to pull the HEI distributor cap, and the steering linkage will have to be re-visited as it's very nearly in a bind. I'll look at it more when I have the body off, but I'm pretty sure that I'll leave it as it is and if I decide it's necessary will have the carb mounting plate milled to take out some of the tilt. I've also thought about changing out the factory intake for something like an Edelbrock Performer RPM, but really not sure I want to put another $200 in parts that I really don't "need" and changing the intake without a new cam, or new cam and better heads is a very small performance boost.

Getting it all bolted back as it was for now, and going through looking for anything else needing to be done while the body's on the frame. I'm really wanting to get it pulled to get the chassis done/done so it can go back together for maybe the last time.