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Unfortunately, I think what I have is a setup designed for racing, and idling and street driveability really isn't it's forte'. Getting all 8 butterflies to be exact, heat expansion, it's probably going to be nearly impossible to dial in to perfection without the ability to adjust each cylinder, meaning IAT sensors and EGT sensors on each hole like on aircraft.

Maybe I'm wrong, the car does run very well presently as far as I'm concerned, but I KNOW it's running very rich.

I haven't checked the plugs since installing new ones yet, but the carbon coating left on the back of the car after drives, the black poof of smoke on startup, the smell of fuel, and a friend who followed me one day told me he could smell my car running pig rich all tells me that even though the car seems to be running fine, the tune is WAY off from being in check.

I know the car spent time on track, so it's probably tuned to run well wide open (in fact, it runs awesome when pushed hard). I believe it's been run in this configuration for quite some time, so I'm not too worried about anything, other than something else konking out.

Unfortunately the solution is upgrading to newer modern electronics and having an expert go through and tune the car, which is something i'm not able to do presently.

SO, for now, I'm just going to drive it occasionally, enjoy that it runs at all, and save my money and decide what to do at a later date when I have options.