I have a $1,000 to spend on fixing up the car?

Question

i have a 1971 crylser New Yorker. Its a V8 and has alot of power, but it doesnt have a fast acceleration. It rusn great and has 58k miles. It jsut got a new carborator. I need to know what i could put in there to make it go faster and or jsut increase its preformance in general.

Answer 1

Its a heavy car, it weighs 4000 pounds and has 340 horsepower and around 460 torque. A thousand dollars isn't much of a budget to increase horse power.



For a thousand bucks, the only things I can think of is a KN filter, better exhaust system (dual exhaust with 2 1/2 in pipes and mufflers through out the whole system). Use 3 inch exhaust on your stock engine only if you're going to keep it a single system because a 3 inch dual system will NOT improve the bottom end performance at all. Also a better intake manifold could help.



This still isn't going to make it performance car, but should help the fuel mileage a little and maybe add 25 to 30 horse power, IF....... your exhaust as well as the intake system is currently restricted. Acceleration could be helped by changing out the rearend to a differential with gears approaching the 4's, but this will take a chunk out of your fuel mileage.

Answer 2

It is possible that you need to replace the timing chain/gears. As the mileage increases and the old age catches up, it may be lagging and setting the internal engine timing slightly off!



However if this is the actual mileage, these comonents shouldn/'t be giving problems yet! If this is the second time around, it may be a different situation!



This engine is not a "slug", - but it is no fireball either! But it shold perform reasonably, and if that is not the case, - I would go through the entire tuneup procedure,- paying particular attention to ignition components and ignition timing!

You can set the timing about 3 degrees "faster" than specs. and improve response a little with out hurting the engine! Without fast cams, hi-rise manifolds, asd tuned exhaust it never will out accelerate a Chev or Ford, - however on a "long run", it will eventeually overtake those two and continueously increase in mph and run away from them after they have "maxed out". This engine will also outlast those "quickies". Their glory comes from short stroke engines, - which rev up quick, but max out quick on power at high speed (they also have low "lugging power"! The Chrysler engine has a much longer stroke, and therefore takes longer to rev up, - but also takes much longer to "max out"-- and it has lots of power at low rpms (lugging power)!



Sort of like a long legged guy opposed to a short legged guy!

The "shorty gets out of the "blocks" quick, - but when the long legged guy gets his speed up, he can run further and faster for a longer distance, --the "little guys" legs can only step so far, and so fast! Also if the long legged guy can get near the same number of steps he is going to go way out in front pretty soon! The short legged guy will "run out" sooner becasue of the number of steps per mile and give out pretty soon! The other one however has more stamina left to go further! Hopefully you see the picture!



Petty brothers won tons of races running old mopar cars against the 50s chevys and fords! When reminded that Fords and Chevs could rev up faster and go faster, - the reply was yes, - "but to win a race you must cross the finish line"!

Answer 3

being that it's a 71,u need to upgrade to an electronic ignition,cause the car came with point ignition,about 150buck's,u said u got new carb,so now buy a nice aluminum intake,single plain or dual plane,either one work good on the big block's,u can gettum for 2 to 250.dollar's,the rest i would spend on header's and dual exhaust.

Answer 4

jenny craig it it is 2 heavy this will help more than ne thing 1000 is not much 2 spend on performance weight loss will help get rid of ac n pwr steering if u can bothe of them take away horsepower

Answer 5

A higher number rear gear will help and then try weight loss. you have good power but a high speed rear and about a ton of extra weight.

Answer 6

put some nice pipes on it

dual flowmasters with chrome 3 inch tips

Answer 7

try a 3in exhaust system....