Some of the linkages tend to twist and get out of adjustment, not from street driving, but from running WOT flat out. When you want to come back to idle the car, that is when you will find out if your linkage is set up correctly.
Most people will build it where they over center it in order to get the car to idle as low as possible. That causes problems because the linkage will not stay there.
As far as getting someone else to do the calibration and forgetting about it from that point on, are you kidding?
The jetting changes from day to day as the weather does.
The air corrector you had in there yesterday at 50f and 20 humidity is now wrong for 95f and 90 humidity today.
Maybe southern California doesn't change like that but anywhere along the east coast of the US will. The changes are often drastic.
I don't know if he still does it but Jim used to send you one size up and one size down along with his dialed in setup.
The real issue with IDAs is that there is just no way that even an average car enthusiast is going to understand what these things are going to run like. You have to experience it for yourself.
I would say that the overall feeling is one of disappointment.
Apparently many people expect the carbs to make their 289 run like a 427? That just ain't going to happen BUT I will say this, driving a set of "well running" Webers is a life experience and regardless how you eventually wind up, i.e., with or without Webers, your life is never going to be the same again.
I think that speaks volumes?
Use Inglese's setup. Then you can bitch to him and not me, LOL! After all, he gets paid for it...I don't!
Best to everyone.
