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no power steering?
welp, sorry i doubted you Tom. that's **** sure close enough to a 455 in weight that it raises serious questions about why Buick weakened the BBB design so much.
put alum heads + alum intake + headers + mini starter and you'll be well under 600lbs with a forged rotating assembly.
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Out of the way. There is a mean old Buick coming through! Any pictures of the car ?
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Bob,
Wicked car! Looks like AFB's on there, did you manage to find an original dual quad setup or are you running some grouping of nailhead carbs? Having a bit of trouble tuning mine, was curious what your tune was looking like as your engine is similar to mine otherwise.
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The carbs are correct '64, '65 dual carbs. The kickdown linkage is fabricated. So far they run good. I do have a difficult time getting it down to the 550 idle suggested in the specs. It just like a bit more.
I will try and get some pictures of the car:(
There is one at the bottom of the page, without the engine and seats here: https://www.teambuick.com/forums/sho...iviera-Project
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Wicked! If originals weren't going for a small fortune I'd go that route, but having fun making two standard AFB's play nice! I agree, the kickdown linkage is absurd, I'll be making my own as well. Since my car doesn't have a switch pitch it's pretty non-critical.
Beautiful car, great color on it!
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Pictures of the car can be found here: '66 Riviera
Here is a couple more of the engine:
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