What needs adjusting?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 15, 07 12:05 pm

Engine starts/ticksover fine, mash the throttle and nothing happens, ease the throttle open and revs happily. This happens both in neutral and out on the road. Engine is 318 with a Holley 600 vs. Replies in novice/idiot language please

the dodge · Post by **the dodge** » Mon Oct 15, 07 12:25 pm

im no expert but my own experience of this was a blocked fuel filter, cleaned it out put it back on away we went

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Mon Oct 15, 07 12:33 pm

Do a search to find Dave's excellent guides to timing and setting up your carb. Run through them BOTH and you will be running sweet. The methodical approach is the only way to get things running spot on.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Oct 15, 07 2:26 pm

Quite a good reply Dan.

But chances are it will need tuning as well as that is not the stock carb.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Oct 15, 07 3:11 pm

I used a rich/lean gauge with a sensor just behind the collector. Monitoring mixture in a real world situation is probably better. You can spend as much time as you like getting it right.

Mopars seem to like around 13:1 air/fuel mixture for best power rather than anything richer. I tune them a bit leaner on the idle mixture.

dustymopar · Post by **dustymopar** » Mon Oct 15, 07 5:14 pm

Blue wrote:Do a search to find Dave's excellent guides to timing and setting up your carb

Would like to see that, where can we find it Dave

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Oct 15, 07 6:06 pm

I dunno? Somewhere on here.

Probably easier to find it on my own message board. Address in the sig.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Oct 16, 07 9:00 am

Cheers guys, will have a play at the weekend and see if i get anywhere

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Oct 23, 07 11:24 am

dustymopar wrote:
Blue wrote:Do a search to find Dave's excellent guides to timing and setting up your carb
Would like to see that, where can we find it Dave

Dusty, dont know how to link you straight to the posts, but after many hours of searching (and getting side tracked reading loads of other informative posts) i've found them

Daves guides to carb tuning & igniton timing are on pages 34 & 22 respectively in this section

well worth the read.

dustymopar · Post by **dustymopar** » Tue Oct 23, 07 11:28 am

Thanks Lee

By the way, we met at the end of FIA European Finals

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Oct 23, 07 11:32 am

Fraid not mate, i were'nt even there

dustymopar · Post by **dustymopar** » Tue Oct 23, 07 11:38 am

Opps

You should have been, it was one great Jolly-up

Thanks Lee

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Oct 23, 07 11:41 am

Do like a good Jolly