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Just started today. When I accelerate coming out of a corner (not hard cornering) The engine almost dies, but then recovers as the car straightens up. The engine is stock, including the carb. It has about 1000 miles on the rebuild.

Really feels like fuel starvation. Is the float sticking? Or what to look for?
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That could be quite a number of things. If you can do so safely, you might add a fuel pressure gauge at the carb inlet. Put it where you - or better yet a passenger - can see it; but NOT in the cockpit. When the symptoms occur, is the fuel pressure holding up? The answer will give you a good clue as to where the problem might be.
running it into the upper rpm's 'slow & easy' through the low gears should find a fuel supply issue, that's where mine displayed chugging as the stock mechanical pump couldn't supply too many carbs. turn smooth rpm over a long period of time to use as much fuel as possible

did the carb dry out during the rebuild process? it may just need a 'going through', could be dried crispies floating around in the bowl. I've even seen mystery extra parts inside a carb on factory new bought vehicle. every now & again they'd get hung up on something in the bowl & the vehicle was crippled. limp it along for a while & it would fix itself. removed the extra parts & it never happened again. the parts didn't even appear on the exploded view diagram Confused

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