8BA doesnt have power
Hey guys. just starting to get my 47 pickup on the road with the newly rebuilt 8BA. It has the ford 94 carb rebuilt, edelbrock elect fuel pump, stock dizzy w vac advance, stock 8BA heads, headers to cherry bombs, standard 3 speed. its 12 volt neg ground.
I spent a lot of time on the road getting it to run smoothly. kept adjusting the timing and fuel mixture. timing at 475rpm is 4 deg btdc. had to restab the dizzy one tooth counter clockwise to get to 4 btdc but the vacuum advance is against the water neck and cannot back counter clockwise any more. if I have it one tooth clockwise, it almost is on a belt. carb mixture is about 1.5 turns open. sounds great at idle but when I need power to get up a hill it really struggles. it doesn't backfire or die but just doesn't have the pop to get up the hill. If i'm on a flat to downhill road i can hit 45 in 3rd. If im going the other way on a slight incline i cannot get past 30 in 3rd.
any ideas of what I am doing wrong. any help is appreciated. God Bless
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