'80RegalT-type
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- Mar 5, 2002
What is up my buick brethren. After many moons of being away from my turbo regal i'm trying to get back in the garage and get this thing going. I started rebuilding this car in high school and it's sort of been on the back burner. The motor was rebuilt completely. Polished crank, bored .30 over with new forged pistons. 3 angle valve job. Stock turbo was rebuilt. (i forget where i sent it). Remanufactured carb. new hei distributor. stock manifolds and piping. Kenne bell high volume oil pump with a repaired front timing cover.
I think that covers it. My problem is that the car seems to run darn rich. black exhaust at idle and slugish. I've only pulled it out of the driveway with no real road testing. I tried adjusting the idle mixture screws but to no avail even with them all the way in. Seems to me it's getting fuel from a different part of the carb. I was thinking of an aftermarket carb but not sure what would be best.
Also after the car warms up the oil pressure goes down to like 10 psi which I thought was weird with the kenne bell pump. No lifter noise or anything just scary having that low psi. The pressure does go up with rpm though. Maybe I need a different relief spring but it's been so long I forget which spring does what.
I think that covers it. My problem is that the car seems to run darn rich. black exhaust at idle and slugish. I've only pulled it out of the driveway with no real road testing. I tried adjusting the idle mixture screws but to no avail even with them all the way in. Seems to me it's getting fuel from a different part of the carb. I was thinking of an aftermarket carb but not sure what would be best.
Also after the car warms up the oil pressure goes down to like 10 psi which I thought was weird with the kenne bell pump. No lifter noise or anything just scary having that low psi. The pressure does go up with rpm though. Maybe I need a different relief spring but it's been so long I forget which spring does what.
