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AMC V8

How to Test Compression Pressure on an AMC V8 Engine

Using a Simple Tool to Tell You a Lot About Your Engine’s Health. Whether you’re diagnosing a misfire in your vintage AMC 304 equipped Jeep CJ-5, checking on a tired 360 in a Jeep Wagoneer, or just curious about the health of that 401 you pulled from a junkyard Javelin, compression testing an AMC V8 …

Live Wires AMC HEI Spark Plug Wires Installation

The jeepfan.com 1978 CJ-5 has an AMC V8 engine with a converted HEI distributor. This conversion is a nice boost in performance along with proven reliability. Several conversion distributors are available with the HEI DUI distributor from Performance Distributors being the top of the line. The jeepfan.com CJ was converted using a custom distributor using …

Replacing AMC V8 Valve Covers

There are times that we need to spend some of the Jeep fund on making things pretty..or in our case pretty again. The jeepfan.com 1978 CJ-5 has been around in the jeepfan stable longer than any other and the once new shiny valve covers, installed when the engine was rebuilt forever ago, have aged well …

Holley Sniper 2 Installation – Wiring, O2, Fuel System

Continuing from Part 1. Installing a Holley Sniper 2 on the jeepfan.com 1978 CJ-5 AMC 360 V8. A log time ago the jeepfan.com 1978 CJ-5 had a Holley Pro-Jection throttle body injection (TBI) on its AMC 360 V8 that worked quite well, until it didn’t. At that point the TBI was removed and an old …

Holley Sniper 2 Installation – Starting and Tuning

Continuing from Part 2. Installing a Holley Sniper 2 on the jeepfan.com 1978 CJ-5 AMC 360 V8. A log time ago the jeepfan.com 1978 CJ-5 had a Holley Pro-Jection throttle body injection (TBI) on its AMC 360 V8 that worked quite well, until it didn’t. At that point the TBI was removed and an old …

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