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1987 brat will not run right

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Video of truck:

 

 

Starts off stationary - at operating temp

0:10 - 0:30 then fwd 1st at

0:31 - 0:49 4wd lo first gear

0:50 into second

last 10 seconds is 4wd lo 2nd gear, but going slow.

 

Only speedo tach and thermometer work. I have oil pressure, and I'm not pushing 18v.

 

I've done a new weber carb, fuel filters, plugs, plug wires, coil, and egr delete. Oil and filter are fresh

 

These are the stock redline Weber subaru kit jets, with the short air filter, and a free flow (hollow cat, single muffler) exhaust

 

Any ideas on what I should do next? This has been the problem my almost my entire time owning this thing, would be great to finally be able to floor it without killing it.

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General transcript of video - when I floor it under ~2k, it falls to about 200rpm, sometimes it dies, sometimes it'll take about 2 seconds and then shoot up to redline. Lots of backfires, both when throttled, and when letting off.

Did you block off the exhaust recirculating valves that the "Y" pipe connects to at the heads?

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Did you block off the exhaust recirculating valves that the "Y" pipe connects to at the heads?

Looks like it was a tooth or two off on timing. Easily double power now vs before, extremely happy, makes me motivated to figure out whats up with all the horrible wiring 

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