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Old 12-07-2013, 02:42 PM
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Set your idle and mixture settings on a HOT engine. This is the way it will idle HOT. Cold engines will not idle well until HOT. Keep you foot on the pedal at a higher rpm until HOT or just drive it away when it's warm until HOT.
Just having some meaningful fun but a carb with no choke will act like this.
As far a dieseling, bad fuel, not the right fuel, vacuum leak, wrong timing.
I usually set my idle at about 1000 rpms. Above 1200 rpms with a light spring in the dist. the advance starts to move so I stay below that.
My cam is in the high .500s with a 233/237 dur.
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