Author Topic: Look what I found now..A D66 Dual Quad Intake for a SB  (Read 7599 times)

Offline dodge freak 2

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Re: Look what I found now..A D66 Dual Quad Intake for a SB
« Reply #30 on: August 25, 2009 - 10:56:34 PM »
No thank you, lol.

Like I said I had a tranny shop here tell me $400 to $500 he just rebuild the main 3rd gear clutch pack and see how the bands look and replace if needed and re-work that manual valve body since the last trans guy made it so it didn't shift very hard for street use but I am unsure if I should trust them. I know my brother dealt with another trans shop near that one and they gave him a bunch of BS how his motor mounts were bad (which they were) and that is why his CV axle kept breaking.

I know I great muffler shop with a cool older guy (who has like $30,000 in his 1995 Mustang ha ha) and he look at it after doing the motor mounts--against the tranny shop advice, they wanted me to take it to a near by shop they knew.

Turns out they kept putting the wrong too short of an axle in and that is why it kept coming out. (they claimed it was breaking)  Me and him both found it hard to understand how a tranny shop could miss that.

I have some big bucks under my hood, MSD 7al, MSD E-Curve dist, MSD gauges, a D C leather steering wheel, a mega stereo system ..now this quad pack (they didn't see that yet, ha ha). My gut feeling is they are going to yank the trans out and then say, "oh, it worst than we thought, it be $$$$ to repair it" and if you don't want it repair, it be $300 or so for what we did so far and they throw the trans in my trunk and tell me to get in towed away!

And I still think no matter how much I spend there it would not be as good as what I could get form ATI, Turbo Action, etc.
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Re: Look what I found now..A D66 Dual Quad Intake for a SB
« Reply #31 on: August 25, 2009 - 11:09:50 PM »
As a follow up...I'm trying to fine tune the primary's now. Still hook up 1 to 1. MPG has improved, it needed softer primary springs under those front metering rods.

Its very sweet those two Carters. Today I had it too lean but unlike my Holley of Demon carbs, the motor did not seem to miss fire. Just was weak on power while warming up until the secondaries opened and once the motor was 170-175 it still felt OK WOT and was just weak on light throttle acceleration, idle good thou.

I left the same size rods in thou and went up one size on the primary jets--a bit of a pain to change 4 jets at a time but can do it in 15-20 mins. I see how the motor feels tomorrow while warming up.

Once tuned just right and it feels great for a full week, I will move on to the air valve weights...think I block them open and see how it drives and take it from there. Great I still have 2 full months left before the snow comes.