It sounds like you are going lean at higher RPMs, which is a very bad thing. That's a sure way to kill a blower motor. Check your plugs for signs of detonation... little specks of metal stuck on the electrode and/or the ceramic, or chunks missing. Compare your plug colors to this chart...
There should be no open ports at the base of the carb. An open port is a giant vacuum leak, which will cause a lean mixture. The ports either need to be connected properly to the PCV, distributor (if you have vacuum advance) and your transmission if it has a vacuum modulator. If the port is not needed for the above, it should be capped.
I would not drive your car until you sort out the mixture issue. It may be as simple as capping that port.
Oh, and welcome to the forums. Lots of knowledgeable people here!
If the port you were referring to is the port at the top towards the right side on the rear of the carb, this is a port that is used to draw air into the choke heater on a factory set-up. It relies on the volume of air being drawn through the carb. Plugging it will not richen it up enough on a blown application. As far as Boost, you will not see any revving it up parked, only driving it down the road under load.
That is the port I was referring to. I am finally enjoying my first day off in the last 30 days, and my memory is a little foggy, but getting better. Hopefully one of the Rochester Carb guys will chime in on this post, on how best to set it up for a blower. I have always used Holley and Edlebrock carbs pre-referenced for boost, when installing a blower.
Do you know what your blower drive ratio is? With a 144 blower, you are only displacing 82% of what it takes to charge the 4 cylinders per revolution that will be on the intake cycle. So to get any boost at all, you need to drive the blower at something more than about 125% of the engine rpm. To get meaningful boost (more than about 6#) you need to drive a 144 at something like 2:1 on a 350.
Also, do you know what your static compression ratio is?
Here is a thorough discussion of technical info on Weiand supercharges.
Thanks to all the help i got it running great :thumbup:
But for a week ago evertyhing went awfully bad, one "arm" in the carb got loose and went inside the blower so no more blower this summer
But atleast i have something to do in the winter now
//Teemu
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