Hi, I'm new to all this but I'm wanting and trying to learn. I have a 92 RS Camaro that we recently swapped engines in (nothing at all wrong with the 305, I just caught the bug and wanted more)... I bought a 383 stroker motor from a guy and had my husband's cousin (mechanic) put it in for me. We originally wanted to keep fuel injection but it wouldn't idle right so we went with carb. It has a Holley 600 or 650 four barrel I can't recall now which one it is (we had a 750 on it and it flooded all the time), 292 magnum cam (already had one in it, it had 2 worn out lobes so we replaced it with the same new cam), got an older model distributor. We had 373 gears put in the stock rearend. We put a shift kit in the stock 700r4 trans and also have replaced the torque converter. I have been told I should put a 9 inch torque converter in it and it would help... because the torque converter we have on it now is even bigger than the stock converter. My problem is... on take off, it sucks... top end the thing will fly but on take off it will barely bark a tire (and that's *with* the shift kit)... it seems like it still floods out a little on take off and then once it gets going it will stand up and just absolutely mortally fly. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Katy

 

What stall converter are you using now? I would also like to know why you couldnt get the fuel injection to work.

 

I think it's supposed to be about a 2500 stall, my parents bought the converter a long time ago. But it doesn't act like a stall... I've been told it's supposed to rev up to a certain rpm and then take off, but it doesn't, it takes off like normal. Like I said, I'm new to all this and learning. And it would run on fuel injection, it just wouldn't run like it should (kinda like now actually, lol)... when it would idle, the cam was so big that the computer couldn't handle it like it was supposed and it would rev up and down... plus, I just kinda wanted to go carb. Just to be different I suppose.

 

I'm no expert but if your cam is that big that would explain why it's not liking the stall you have. Maby if you went with a 3000+ stall or something better suited for the cam you could see the full potential. Some decent tuning would help which I think couldve solved your fuel injection issues.

 

the stock fuel injection obviously wont run right with that cam without a lot of tuning. sounds like you need more stall with the converter, also the carb seems kinda small too.