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Comment by Jason Edge on September 15, 2012 at 8:41pm

The car was running fantastic today as we cruised down to the Clayton Harvest Festival Car Show and since I knew it might be a while before I can drive it as I replace the exhaust I changed out the metering rods to 4% richer for both cruise mode and power mode.   As good as it ran earlier now with the new richer metering rod jet configuration it is really running incredible.  I took it for one last spin before I start removing the custom dual exhaust and it is just really running great. It will be funny to hear it nice and quite when I get the new exhaust system installed, but couldn't help taking it out for one last blast before I start the change-out.  Just to back up a bit, when I had went from the ignitor II setup to the Ignitor III setup I returned the carb configuration to stock to get an ideal of  how the richer jets might improve with the III setup and it really makes a big difference!

Comment by Jason Edge on September 14, 2012 at 10:32pm

The engine now has 347 miles on it (162,278 on the car), and changes the oil for the first time since the rebuild.  I had planned to wait until 500 miles were on the engine but was anxious to change it now that I had least have some miles on it.  I'm running regular "on sale" 10W30 oil and wills switch to a semi-sythetic or all synthetic after 1000 miles are on the engine...which at my rate will be some time! :-)