12 gruelling hours later, my 76 roared to life. It's not just any 4BBL; it's a 750CFM Quadrajet, and it drives great. See the thread I started in the Inline forum:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...ml#post4761977

Alot of it is a total kludge right now, just to get me home. Two coathangers were sacrificed to help hold the exhaust up and keep the throttle bracket in place. Bolts were cross drilled for use with cotter pins. Aluminum tubing was cut into spacers. The 3/8" bolts I bought to put the Walker exhaust onto the EFI manifolds just stripped out of the cast iron, so I used the aluminum spacers with longer 5/16" bolts, nuts & lockwashers to attach the Walker pipe to the EFI manifolds. There are 5 connections in the exhaust system, and only one clamp, which was used mid-section to attach to a factory exhaust hanger.

The electric choke is wire-nutted into the Y-adapter I use to power my satellite radio from the cigarette lighter. I used cheap speaker wire that comes from under the hood, and in through the quarter window. It's totally hacked together, but it got me home. :-)

 

Congrats on getting it running! I have a nice 750 Holley dual feed, vacuum secondary carb that would fit really nice on that Offy intake, or I could be convinced to let my Demon 725 go for the right price if ya want to try some other carb options.

Hacked up or not, at least she's running!! Let it ride........

for now.

 

Word! Need sound clips

 

It really doesn't sound like anything, at least not in the cab. Might be louder at the tailgate. Which is kind of nice, because I can hear myself think, and even take a cell phone call now. Later when I put the cab insulation back in, I'll be able to enjoy my stereo.

 

Word!

Hey, I dunno if you checked or not, but I see your using a Walker Down Pipe. . .did you check in the rear short tube that "T's" into the main tube? On mine, and a few others in the Inline6 forum have mentioned (at least when I hung out there) that the hole cut in the main tube is much smaller than the diameter of the rear tube. On mine I had to grind down about a 1/4" of excess sheet metal along about 1/3 of the radius of the tube to open it all the way up. Looked like it would have been a pretty major restriction.

If your install is still fresh, I dunno if you might want to pop it off and check. . .Justa FYI

BTW, my green truck had a Dynomax turned down under the bed. Irritating at 2500 RPM on the highway, but it idled and under load sounded almost like a diesel

 

Yeah, the downpipe had the uglyness in it. I cleaned it up some, but not perfectly. I can hear it chuffing when I drive it (I think- could be the exhaust leaks I have).

Mine doesn't drone much at all. I think that's a function of not having the exhaust exit under the truck.

 

True dat. . .

Glad you got to clean it up some, I'd feel guilty if I didn't tell you about it but your ahead of the game

That drone was annoying, first thing on my list was to finish routing the exhuast to exit right in front of the passenger side tire But I didn't keep it that long. . .