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Originally Posted by 71RS/SS396
Doug, it was nice to meet you too. I think 54.7 was the best I did. You looked like you had a couple of good runs going when you carb started having fits. I'm not sure if I'll make it out to to RTTC or not, it's a long haul for me and I'm not sure I'll be done with the planned changes to the car in off season or not, we'll what happens.
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I figured out what was causing the loss of power---pulled the tank, cleaned the filter, nothing. Blew out the lines--felt like there was a restriction. Traced the line to see if it was kinked anywhere and I found a smashed clamp on the fuel line. When I had jacked up the car from the side, I accidently got the jack to close to one of the adell clamps which squeezed the nylon braided fuel line together---there was just enough fuel to get me through the those first couple of turns in the float bowl--but the pump couldn't pull enough through that restriction to keep up. Did it to myself per usual. At least it was an easy fix. Works fine now.