Reply to "Car idling without gas???"

I found out that due to the mixing of parts when I assembled it, there's was no passage from the idle screws to the throttle bores. No wonder the idle screws had no effect. I drilled passages, thinking that was it. But no! It idled better, and the idle screws now had an effect, but small. And the carb was too rich still.

I browsed the web, googled, got on hotrodders.com and there was advice. To get proper idle I had to turn the primary throttle plates up so much they showed the transition slots, this gives too rich idle. I tried to remedy by first increasing secondary throttle plate gap, after that by drilling holes in primary throttle plates, bigger and bigger. No decent idle and black plugs!

At this time I realised I must have had that carb on and off 15 times and spent 2½ days. And one of the gas tanks was on empty, so I've spent $100 on gas idling in my garage.

That combined with the fact that the similar carb from my Pantera worked perfectly, I decided to buy a new Holley 600 vacuum, on it's way from Summit. It better be good.

Embarrassing having to give up, but life's (and Danish summers are) too short...