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What weight oil are you running? 35 hot idle is good imo. And I can't blame you for not wanting to get away from 285s, next set of tires I buy for mine will be at least 285s.
Have you ever seen the L19 454 TBI short block, ebay aluminum head twin turbo blow through carb setup Car Craft did. They gave up when the spark kept getting blown out. I think it was at about 22-24 psi.
I have not, but I'm going to have to look for it! Any idea what it made for torque? I'm going to guess it was way up there considering how the l19 makes torque.
I want to say it made 1,200-1,300 hp and another 150-200 ft/lbs. The torque number was stupid and it was still an all cast junkyard bottom end. This article was CarCrafts response to HotRods first big bang 4.8L.
It used to be 45 hot idle and almost 65-70 pounds cruising; that was a pain to do, I had to string the mechanical gauge up around the back of the intake, out between the cowl and the hood and I ziptied it to the windshield wiper.
I had a worse clatter when I still had dino oil in it, but since I've switched to Amsoil I didn't have any problems for a while, but like I said to Christian, I've noticed the clatter has faintly come back here recently. Don't know if it's because of the cold snap that passed through or just a coincidence,
