Vid of my 280S running, any advice is appreciated

[chinny4290]

Alrighty. I have a video of my 280S starting and running. It's fine...it's driveable and it's not majorly in bad shape but there's a noticeable sputtering...this can be felt on acceleration and at idle. Turn your volume up and you'd be able to hear it. It's especially noticeable when I'm revving the engine constant at 2300 or so rpm.

I know that my vacuum pump (American carbed M110) is bypassed at the moment to keep oil from going into the intake since the cam seal is bad.

I also know that my #6 cyl ignition wire is bad so I need to replace all of them for good measure, and maybe my ignition coil since it appears to be original. (Car has 77k miles on it). Distributor cap and rotor and spark plugs are brand new.

Anyway, any things you guys notice please let me know. I also plan to Seafoam the engine but that's after I fix the pump and do the ignition coil and wires.

It's 2min and 33 seconds long so you guys need some good internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdlgNcyuVq8

This is also after I degreased the engine because oil leaks and sprays everywhere from the makeshift clogging of the vacuum pump so that's where the smoke/steam is coming from.

Also taht smooth idle, that's the smoothest it's run since I've had the car. I forgot to mention it.

Majority of the time the whole car would shake at idle, but the rev counter and engine would stay consistent. I was thinking that a cylinder wasn't firing (#6 because the #6 wire is bad as aforementioned).

[Mike D]

Get the ignition system in order before you tackle the other stuff. Change the wires. Does the car have the transistorized ignition box? Does it have contact points in the distributor? Is the timing set correctly? Are the electrical contacts (ballast resistor, wires leading to the coil and distributor) clean and tight?

There is nothing more frustrating than jumping ahead of yourself trying to fix a miss and then, after exhausting all possibilities, going back and finding a frayed wire you overlooked.

[chinny4290]

Originally Posted by Mike D

Get the ignition system in order before you tackle the other stuff. Change the wires. Does the car have the transistorized ignition box? Does it have contact points in the distributor? Is the timing set correctly? Are the electrical contacts (ballast resistor, wires leading to the coil and distributor) clean and tight?

There is nothing more frustrating than jumping ahead of yourself trying to fix a miss and then, after exhausting all possibilities, going back and finding a frayed wire you overlooked.

Ignition wires are the first thing on the list.

Transistorized ignition box? No idea

Contact points in distributor? No idea...


Timing set correct? No idea.

Electrical contacts? Yup...but again I'm going to replace the wires anyway.

[meltedpanda]

I am with Mike, get the easy stuff done, points plugs and timing need to be done, use a dwell meter for setting the points, much more accurate.
Do you have a manual, settings should all be in there

BTW it sounds pretty good to me