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Old 09-19-2018, 08:47 PM
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Make sure your endpoints are perfect. Carb should slam completely shut when you release the trigger and should not move when you squeeze the brakes. Make sure throttle slide doesn't open past the carb inlet when at wide open throttle. Then set idle gap to .5mm without the venturi. After that, lean the LSN until you can get it to at least idle then start doing high speed passes to set the HSN. Once you get the HSN to where there's no performance gain. Back off the high speed an hour or two. Do a pass and bring the car in and let it idle. If it maintains a high idle, back off the LSN an hour. If it doesn't maintain idle lean the LSN an hour and do another pass and repeat the same process until you can bring the car in after a high speed pass and it immediately drops to idle then completely lays down after about 6-8 seconds. It should have a steady lope to it with an audible miss. If you lean the LSN and it gets to the point where it starts to lean bog, back off until you're able to accelerate hard without it being too rich or too lean. Once you get it there and it still doesn't maintain idle, turn the idle screw an hour or less clockwise until you can get the idle low and consistent without it dying. .8mm is probably the max you would want your idle gap to be. The longer it sits the more it should load up with fuel to the point where it should stall out after a considerable amount of time. The longer you can get it to idle the better of course.

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