Anyone have this problem?? (stalling)
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Anyone have this problem?? (stalling)
Under heavy braking, my car is stalling.
At first I thought it's my RPM at idle, as I was running about 550~600 in gear (I just like the sound, and shacking of it). Since I adjust the idle to 800 rpm in gear and it still stalls :confused:
It was sugested to me that my power brake buster might be busted cousing the problem, but I think I will ask b4 I start changing good parts.
Also, it seams like it's sucking fuel out of the carburetor, because when I want to start it, it takes lots of cranking and pumping b4 it starts again.
I am asking hear because most of you guys have carbureted cars and know much more about them than I do.
Thanks for help and any sugestions.
Ziggy
At first I thought it's my RPM at idle, as I was running about 550~600 in gear (I just like the sound, and shacking of it). Since I adjust the idle to 800 rpm in gear and it still stalls :confused:
It was sugested to me that my power brake buster might be busted cousing the problem, but I think I will ask b4 I start changing good parts.
Also, it seams like it's sucking fuel out of the carburetor, because when I want to start it, it takes lots of cranking and pumping b4 it starts again.
I am asking hear because most of you guys have carbureted cars and know much more about them than I do.
Thanks for help and any sugestions.
Ziggy
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Re: Anyone have this problem?? (88WHITE VETTE)
What duration cam are you running? I had this problem because I had a high duration cam, and when I would hit my brakes hard it would take enough vaccum away from the cam that it would stall. If you have power brakes and a big cam, I would look into a vaccum accessory to increase your total vaccum.
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Re: Anyone have this problem?? (Prufrock17)
I had this problem with 2 cars and a total of 4 carburetors... Nothing would cure it. One was a stick, the other auto. Both would always stall under really hard braking.
Then I installed EFI, and no more problems. So that tells me it's definetely related to carburetors, and not vacuum accessories.
Then I installed EFI, and no more problems. So that tells me it's definetely related to carburetors, and not vacuum accessories.
