:Glad to hear the car is running so good. I've been slacking a lot lately...been too hot.

: A week or so ago someone posted about a bog on
: a 390 Holley. I was having the same problem
: and said when I fixed it I would post the
: results. I have a mild cam, .100 off the
: head, ported, offy intake, MP headers, 3.50
: gears, and auto trans. I tried every thing I
: knew to do to the carb, nothing worked. The
: cam (a 252 comp cams cam) shouldn’t need a
: stall converter but it did. I could feel it
: up on the converter and bogging off the
: line. Well it did need a converter, I went
: to Midwest on Dennis's recommendation and
: they built me a converter to my engine
: specks. I was running 17.46 with out the
: converter, Don’t know yet what it will do
: with it but it is flying now as compared to
: before. I predict 16.50 to 16.80. After I
: got the verter in then I could tune the 390,
: nothing worked before. Hope this helps
: someone. It would just barely spin the tires
: before, now roast them through first.

: I am suprised that you need the high stall
: convertor with that cam. My Barracuda has
: about the same setup ( except 4spd OD, 3.23
: gears) with the 252S cam and I can pull away
: from a stop at 900rpm without giving the car
: any gas on level ground. It will lug down to
: 1000 rpm in 3rd (1:1) and pull away cleanly.
: I went up a couple of jet sizes from stock
: on the 390, moved the accelerator pump cam
: to the more agressive position and use a
: yellow secondary spring.

: I know I didnt think it would need a higher
: than stock stall but it did i've had V8's
: with this problem, up aginst the converter,
: and it felt the same. You know at a stop it
: was trying to pull through the brakes. I
: think I need some more carb work now but its
: 100 percent better. Plenty good enough to
: drive but I want more.

: What is your idle rpm in gear?