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carb care...... You might go over to v8Buick.com and go to the section that covers qjet carbs and check out the guy that every one there reccomends for qjets....

yep.... You know the engine has a good timing chain and gears and is in time at those gears.... so the rest of the system needs to be checked out.... first look inside the dist cap for cracks and carbon tracks and ck. the rotor too.... and the wires.... and the spark plugs.... not all spark...

carb......... HMMMMMM,,, that do make a difference......

starter problem..... OK, .....there is only the ign. switch, the starter solenoid, and the starter relay.... and the vacume switch on the side of the carb in the system, plus the wires and the battery.....there is nothing else....unless someone has done something to the system....

starter problem..... It is gonna be the starter solenoid that is bolted on top of the starter its self.... there is a plastic cap at the end of it and under that cap is a set of contacts and a round copper disk... what happens is the disk welds its self to the contact and then you cannot shut...

Turbo nailhead..... Yep,,, there are some old documents from Buick floating around that says that buick built some turbo nailheads but could not find a transmission that would stand up to the torq .... and finally dropped the project because of it.....

And then there is this........ One of the guys on v8buick,,, built a turbo NAILHEAD and it twisted a turbo hydramatic 400 transmission half in two.....lots of power with a turbo.......

Yep...... Bob is right on,,, and combine the fact that the nailhead has a bunch of dress up goodies, cams, intakes, ect.... available for it... and every body and his dog dont have one just like it..... And if you use the factory single 4 intake you can do my ''Doc dual plane'' mod to it and...

64 skylark...... In 65 I bought a 64 skylark coupe.... it had the 300 in. wild cat 310... like yours.... next I built a ''optional'' engine,,,, [wildcat 355] and with it I raced more , broke less, and had more fun, won more trophies than with any engine/car I ever had.... and i did not have...

Carb..... One way or another the floats are not doing the job.... like Tom says, they may be filling with gas and sinking... but that said, they should be gas filled when you take them out....I would install new ones.... then if it still does it ,,, then consider that the basic casting may be...

I have come up with a mod to the stock single 4 manifold that substantually increases hp...what I do is to cut out the partitions between the front and rear barrels of the intake, leaving the center divider intact .... and then smooth out the sides and center partition....on the v8 Buick site...

timing..... 42 sounds a little high to me....

timing.... I set mine on 8 deg. because of the catpee gas.... supposed to be 12 deg. basic.....then the vac brings the rest , up to 30 or 31 total....the most important thing to check out is the rubber advance limiter that is under the rotor... it dries out and crumbles all to pieces letting...

Dash,,,,, Spot welded , I think..... not positive though.... look around the ends....with a mirror....

carb spacer...... Yep,,, there is supposed to be, a thick heat proof, type gasket,, then a metal heat shield and then the carb... or some people put a thin paper gasket between the carb and heat shield....all of that will definitely cut down on the amount of heat going to the carb from the...

swaps...... Yep, what Tom said..... personally, I would look for a 63 -59 crankshaft for a 401 and install it in a 401 or 425 block so it would mate up to the dynaflow flexplate... keep the dynaflow... and also the foot start stuff will have to be changed over to the intake manifold , because...

Water manifold... Yeah, I know it... :D but ,,, and neither did he , nor me,,, but would'nt the water manifold be unique to the 364 because of the different deck height??? if you tried to interchange the 2 water manifolds the 364 one should be shorter than the 401/425,,, I think.....:D:D

interchange parts The water manifold is different length aint it Tom?????? different deck height.......

interchange...... The entire rocker arm assembly will... but not the pushrods... they are a different length.... 364s are shorter....due to a shorter deck height.....intake manifolds will not interchange and I think, the oil pan will not,,, due to a different bolt pattern, I think,,, not...

Nailhead carb size....... Andy,,,, I have run the stock afb which is about 550 cfm, I have run the holly 600 cfm... 670cfm ,, 950 cfm 3 barrel, 1050 3 barrel..... my nailheads did not have any trouble handeling any of them.... the factory dual quad set up flows about 1200 cfm total... the most...