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just to give a "final" answer to my Edelbrock tuning Smiler....after playing with jets & metering rods i came back to primarys the stock setup but secondarys 0.104 jets instead of the 0.098 stocks ( Blaine had it right )... had today a 100 miles trip and never got a flat "spot".... as experienced with all other combos , also felt a rich running with richer primarys.Remarkeble is the ( spring loaded,adjustable ) air valve in the secondarys, with the out-of-the-box setting it was , once i had the jets right , as a turbo-lag going WOT ( a hesitation and then woooop ) .... now i have the "perfect" results with that spring on the softest setting, which means almost no resistance : if i push the valve open by hand , it almost doesn't return closed due the very little spring tension.
I must add here that the electric choke wasn't working as there is no voltage on that wire...so i rotated the choke housing to full open for the moment as to be certain that valve isn't in a partial closed position... could have influenced some of my trials...next job is to follow that wire ( not easy in our mid-engine cars Roll Eyes) and see where it is supposed to get it's voltage, i assume original there was no eletric choke ... so someone has ever got placed that extra wire in the car... so far , i seem to have no problems starting the engine without that choke valve working....
so.. do i need it ? Big Grin

greetz from a happy man with a great running engine now.... dancing
Last edited by belgiumbarry
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