I haven't done to much work on the car lately. Brigitte and just had our
son Ronan.
We did sign up for the Vegas fun rally this year and plan on attending with the whole family. Part of that plan includes buying a towing rig to tow the Pantera in style. I also signed up for the track event, so I will see you all there.
A few items worth noting on the Pantera. I did remove the radiator and
flush it out. I also removed the air conditioning condensor from the front
of it as well. I also cut out the lower valance where wire grid pattern
used to reside when it was stock. All these changes again made the
cooling system more efficient. During a 65 degree ambient temperature day I
will idle at 150 degrees. I think I got all my cooling issues sorted.
The other change I made was for the carb. I have been fighting that Holley
4779 750 double pumper for quite some time. I did some more noodeling on
the situation and decided that I don't have a vaccum problem. The problem
is the car runs too rich at idle because I have to expose too much of the
idle transfer slot to get it to run. This is caused by low vaccum at idle
and a lopey cam. The solution is to dril 1/16 inch holes in each of the
butterflies in the base plate. This allows more air into the carb when the
plates are closed ( at idle ) and less fuel. This brings back the
adjustability of the idle mixture screws and improves vaccum by 4 or 5 lbs
of vaccum. Therefore I was able to increase my power valve to a #5 and that
improved fuel flow at power conditions. The change worked, the car behaves
much better and faster! I will try to write up my carb expierences for
others to learn from in the near future.
