I am in agreement, the Clifford is huge for a 194ci daily driver with 5000rpm max(respectively)and while your carb may not be too big as far as cfm goes, most 390's are set up for ford v-8s that have small high velocity intakes, and near 100 more cubic inches. Maybe all that fuel is covering up a gnarly hesitation. Maybe someone enlarged the idle feed or altered something in your carb. It just seems like if you slammed open that carb, on that much intake,on a 194, it might take more than the red pump cam to get enough velocity for the the straight leg boosters (main circuit) to flow. I know thats alot of maybe's. Automatic trans??
