How To Make Your Hot Big Block Run Awesome - 1973 Dodge Charger 440 Distributor Recurve And More

In this video: how to recurve a Mopar distributor; an extensive discussion of timing curve basics, vacuum and mechanical advance systems, and advance requirement calculations; how to use vacuum advance off of manifold vacuum effectively; Edelbrock carburetor fuel metering rod and step up spring testing and tuning; and more.

The 1973 Dodge Charger I call "Toolbox" is finally running and driving! But to this point, it's been running on an out of the box remanufactured electronic distributor setup, which is far from ideal. So in this episode, we go in depth on another tuning case, and look at how the vacuum advance pod hooked to a manifold vacuum connection, combined with modifying the amount of mechanic advance in a distributor can be a very effective way to make your hot rodded engine run really, really well.