Yes, but TORQUE!

In deed it has that.

(Replaces baseball cap with some indignation.)
(Sniff sniff?) Do you smell something burning?
(Notices in windshield reflection that baseball cap is cheerily ablaze.)

Okay...

oh I would put ZINC in the oil!!!

Or just use heavy-duty diesel grade oil. But I agree adding ZDDP wouldn't hurt.

sweeet IRON RESURRECTION!!!!!

Yes.

total agreement - go vintage...

V.

It's classic.

Thank you. I remember the old cars even before the monoinjector, it was interesting to see on the overseas car.
An eight-cylinder engine and three carburetors... I guess it must consume a lot of fuel and this engine gives a lot of excess power.

Their mileage was not bad for the day... if you didn't open up the secondary carburetors.

This setup runs primarily on the center carburetor and after it is opened about 3/4 of the way the other two carburetors start to open up.

Oh, thank you very much. I did not know these features, in the end, I could guess.
Theoretically, if you don't feel like a teenager wanting to press the accelerator all the way down, you could easily install one middle carburetor with plug plates on the other two inlets, and save money and fuel. - Although for connoisseurs of old cars it will sound like a terrible heresy...

Here in the post-Soviet countries, almost all cars made in Korea or Germany with a full injector and computer control, but sometimes there are cars with an old carburetor.
I even saw a few facts when the car's computer control system failed and because the parts were quite expensive and the owner could not afford it - then they take on the car dumps and slightly redesigned in the conditions of garage craftsmen intake manifolds of old cars as well as more or less suitable carburetors. Although such modifications are rather the exception.

When the electronic work it's great... but when they don't... it really sucks. Old school is hard to beat.

I am an electrician, I also sometimes do auto electrics, and there are very few of us. I would say that there are 7 of us in the whole district. This is very very little ...
Lack of qualified specialists, lack of specialized equipment, problems in finding technical documentation, and worst of all, - lack of money to purchase spare parts.
Well-tuned electronics are certainly great, reliable, and economical - but sometimes it's easier to spit and put a good old carburetor.

Yep all those things add up, it's one of the reasons why my daily driver is a 79 Toyota pickup. The only electronics on the motor is ignition module.

wow! it looks great!

Thank you.

yeah - oh, well. Yours?

No it's not, it belongs to a friend.