Jerry, that is what I was thinking to, the fella i picked the truck up at in Mobile was building the truck as a show truck. He had been working on it for a little over 3 years until the plant closed he was working at. I'am going to call him tonight and find out exactly what size cam he put into the engine. I may do like i did on my 50 truck with the 400sbc and change out the cam to a stock cam if tweaking the carb doesn't help The 400 in the 50 ran a whole lot smoother after I changed it out and runs very well. And again thank you for all the help and advice you have given me not only on this problem but many others.
Britcon, the engine actually had a brand new edelbrock 600 on it when i picked up the truck. I figured it was a carb issue and exchanged the edelbrock for a Holley 600 and still had the problem
bartamos, I don't mind a little smell of gas in the exhaust but my eyes burning kind of bothers me. The 327 is a brand new build and has all new lines and hoses. The fella did a real nice job on the front end. he installed a front clip out of a 78 camaro and it looks very well done. I believe him when he says that there is a little bigger cam in the engine. The reason being is that he was building the truck for himself as a show truck And you can tell he took a lot of pride in his work. but even he said that the exhaust had a pretty stout smell of gas.
And again thnaks for all the help and advice you guys have given me. I really wanted some input on which way to go at fixing the problem. I really don't want to go to changing out the cam if i don't have to. The cam change isn't really that hard. It took me about 2 days on the 400 sb and that was just taking my time.
