I've got bbk chrome equal lengths, with a 347, what would cause the headers to turn orange? car ran for a whole 5-10 minutes, coolant was around 150 or 160. Only thing different than last time we put it in was that i misplaced my oil pump and bought a high volume melling. other than that its the same. I was thinking the timing being off would cause it but my dad says it was right at 12*. I have no intentions of fixing it, tomorrow i'm going to take it to livernois and have them deal with it and tune it. Just wondered what would cause this?

 

retarded timing, vacuum leaks

 

why not at least check it out? maybe you got the plug wires wrong, doubble check the way you have it wired. and how did your dad check the timing? maybe the dist is stabbed wrong. check it out first before you spend money to have someone else "deal with it"

 

timing off......what balancer are you using? if it had 3 sets of timing marks are you using the correct set?? could also be way lean?? either way do not run it like that!!

 

yeah man i would definetely double even triple check the timing and lik said the right timing marks or again lean as hell would do that whats the fuel pressure set at idle with the vac line off?

and i see u got your shiznit back together .....right on as i just started puttin mine back together as i just painted it and i had to start it up after 2 months of sittin and damn do i want to drive her again....[8D]

 

IME, something is making run real lean.
Vacumn leak? Timing way off?

 

well obviously the car runs lean since thats why it went last time. but the headers never glowed before. could be vacuum, I've only got like 3 hoses plugged into the intake, but its the same hoses as before. and yeah the balancer has 3 sets of marks on it. what i did was just set it at tdc then when it started i used the closest set of numbers to time it, did this last time too and it ran decent. I'll check it over a little but in 1/2 hour my rides coming to load the car on a trailer. hopefully this isn't too expensive.

 

cam timing, i had that problem...

 

cam timing shouldn't be it. woody did that and he dosen't usually mess anything up.

 

what was the fuel pressure at.....