General Lee cold start backfire

69 Charger General Lee cold start, missfireing, smoking, backfiring... This is actualy the best cold start yet! It is usually much worse. It generaly takes 5 plus minutes to warm it up before it is drivable.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• General
• Lee
• cold
• start
• missfire
• backfire
• oil
• smoke

[BadAssEngineering]

blue smoke = fucked motor... so sad

[turbosigns]

@BadAssEngineering ---- yup... I agree. I still can't get the rings to seal well, lots of blow by, oil is crapped out by 500 miles, yadda, yadda, yadda... so the 451 should be done soon. I have a funny feeling I will find little to no radial tension on the oil rings, and I suspect a "cylinder hone" and ridge reamer bore job type rebuild, if so I will be kickin some lazy mechanics butt.

[turbosigns]

@DORUKOZKAN ----- I dug this charger out of the mud in Oklahoma, where it had sat for 25 years rusting away. It was a 318, 3 speed manual with a console, weird combo... but it would still be there if I didn't spend cubic $'s to restore it. Now if the paint job hurts your gentile sensibilities, then make sure to buy it from my widow once I'm gone and paint it whatever damn color you want. More Chargers are restored because of the General Lee than any other reason... period... go pay for paint.

[KierneM]

Even if you could conceivably eat breakfast before she's warm enough to hit the highway, she's still a God Blessed General Lee... and worth every minute, ain't she?

[Refman97]

where do you even live for it to take this long



[distructor20]

Did you fix the oil problem?

[bigredsled67]

Black smoke means an over rich carb mixture and blue means deeper problems

[Darkfloyd73]

@Darkfloyd73 after that it would start up every morning. gave the same advice to a friend who has A 440 Big Block 1972 Charger. he runs it well!! does all the maintnance to keep it running clean. wokrs every time!! just a little tlc.

[Darkfloyd73]

well its a performance car. its should be broken in before it gets put away. my big block 400-4 76 Formula did'nt want to cooperate with me on cold mornings. so i did a little tweaking, lightened the oil to 10w30 synthetic( as an experiment) changed the spark plugs to e3 diamondfires oil pump etc.. and i cleaned the carborator and rebuilt it. after all of the fun stuff. i would run the crap out of it on the interstate for about 30 minutes in the fastlane. worked well!!

[kike265]

sounds like a rotary engine

[capricornGTR]

@turbosigns bad fuel injectors could cause the misfire as well.

[EYEBZTRIPPIN]

@John52953 lol....bet you its your seats/guides. Big Block are extremly cold blooded, mines takes about 5 min of driving to get into operating temp and about 15 min of driving to get my oil at operating temp and right viscosity. If i just let it idel it would take forever to warm up. Freindly tip: dont ever do burn outs or hammer an engine when it is cold, you want to wait at least 5 min after it reaches operating temp or you can do serious damage to engine. ;)

[curtmaster3001]

i love how people think old cars are really that bad on gas, i have a ford tuck with a tired big block in it and i am able to go to school and back with trips to the store and friends houses in between, for a month on a 18 gallon tank of gas. it gets probably 7-10 mpg depending on how cold it is, how much you have to choke it, and how fast you go haha.