By the way, the car is not burning oil like I thought. Maybe a quart every two tanks. Still not good but way less than I had thought. I must have miss remembered when put oil in it. I don't know, its not worrisome.
But, that's not the only reason I'm reviving this thread. The engine is ready pretty good except for two things....
1) When you floor the car, it sounds like the vacuum advance is not working, i.e. there seems to be a lot of pinging going on under the hood. At no other time does it do this and it only does it under load.
2) Only when the engine is running at normal temperature, when I'm sitting at a light or a stop sign, then engine idles at around 750 RPMs. Nice lope, sounds mean. But, and it doesn't do this ALL the time, the engine will get slower, and slower, and slower, till its choking at 400 RPMs. I can hit the gas pedal and she responds instantly but then goes back down to 400 RPMs and almost shuts off. I put it in neutral, engine revs back up, then falls back down. After a minute or two... it sometimes comes back up to idle and runs fine.
I am wanting to get these two problems fixed so that I drive the car to the Nationals. It's driven this way on several 300 hundred mile trips and runs good, except for the idle. My current though on item one is that my distributor advance is just shot is not doing it's job. I am leaning towards getting a new distributor but buying one that's pre-advanced is expensive. The other route is buy one like at Summit and then spend the same money on a Dyno tune. Anyway, I'm rambling now. Thanks, in advance, for you help.
