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Thanks Mitch. I'm around the same altitude, and found the same with idles. My engine came with 60s which were a scosche too rich. I was running 57.5 for the longest time, and my 2165 DID NOT appreciate the 55s I tried. My mains are 140s and it runs 12.3 to 12.5 at WOT.

What size venturis and emulsion tubes are you running? 40s usually come with F7 I think.

The wideband(temporary setup) was a revelation for tuning and knowledge purposes, but I confess I never changed anything in my carbs except the idle jets. Warm idle is at 14.3:1, just about perfect if you ask me.

Honestly, I sometimes wonder why I did the EFI except for the challenge. I really didn't NEED to do a darn thing.

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@Sacto Mitch posted:

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...In the beginning, I tried going down to 55 idles, and it didn’t like that at all. And I think I tried 130 mains, too, but it started popping a lot. Now it only pops if one of the ‘mixture’ screws is too far in, and usually a quarter turn out will fix that....



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Sounds like it's set up pretty well just the way it is. Older cars with carbs  usually have a slightly sooty exhaust.

@ALB posted:

Sounds like it's set up pretty well just the way it is. Older cars with carbs  usually have a slightly sooty exhaust.

I agree with Al, @Sacto Mitch, but you don't need either of us to tell you that you have this thing nailed, since you're where you should be all the time, and when you're not your with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend,

etc.

You (like el Guapo-ness) have developed a finely tuned sense of Hakuna Matata, if not in every area of life-- certainly as is pertains to these cars. You've spoken eloquently of dancing with your car and living at peace with what she gives you. To hear you tell it, that swing-axle Vintage Speedster is like some shy orphen kitchen wench in a bad Hallmark movie or one of your wife's bodice-rippers, just waiting for the gentle touch of a sensitive man to make her blossom into something all hot and quivery.

Of course, some of that may be the result of having schlepped through life as one of "God's poor souls", forced to compensate for your lack of blue-collar skills with your early retirement, (self-confessed) over-endowment, and rugged good looks.

One does wonder how you've been able to get by.

Again, for the kids in Pekin, IL-- my friend Mitch, with the 5-speed:

Mitch

Had you but made a different set of life-choices, (like say, staying in the 6 month long slushfest out east) spending all your disposable income on car-parts and tools (rather than gym memberships and massages), you may have acquired some "garage-chops" and developed into a perto-masculine specimen compensating for his lack of masculinity and female companionship with a jacked up truck, dwelling in a 1200 sq/ft house with a 2400 sq/ft garage, and looking like this:

Stan

... if only.

You needn't feel bad-- for we, the highly advanced represented in the second picture will continue to improve and develop these highly technical, space-age, 1930's-designed rocket-ship lawn-mowers with fancy doo-dads and Buck Rogers gimcrackery-- for you and for the good of all humanity. We're just cool like that.

You and @MusbJim will have to compensate for your shortcomings by going out in your perfect weather, cruising on your perfect ribbons of blacktop running through your postcard-worthy scenery out in your gorgeous "Golden State", eating shrimp tacos down at the surf-shack, skipping school, and enjoying your kale smoothies and avocado toast with Hollywood starlets and titans of industry.

Your ample (and growing) passive-income portfolios can never compensate for the "highly useful " knowledge you might have acquired by burning all the money you might have earned by kneeling behind a rooftop HVAC unit to shield yourself from the blizzard you might have endured

... but I suspect that somehow you'll learn to cope.

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I checked the CB site and they don't show the advance springs as a separate item to buy.  If you have a MagnaSpark II you should have gotten three extra sets (different colors/strengths) with it, along with installation instructions.  If you have a MS II and no extra springs, I would give CB Performance a call, ask for Marieanne and see if they can send some out to you.

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Stan, I don’t know what they’re putting in the cheerios out there in Peoria, but could you send me a few boxes?

Yes, as you’ve been able to work out, like everyone else who has worked for newspapers for 40 years, I was able to retire early with an enormous fortune, and now have peeps to handle life’s more unpleasant tasks.

In the words of Sumo Fritata, you are a sensitive soul, although pretending to be thick-skinned.

I think we all wear the clothes that fit us best. I’ve always envied folks who could tear an engine down and figure out how all the pieces go back together. My dad grew up in the city in the depression, so working on a car, let alone owning one, were things he never dreamed of. He finally bought one of the evil things at the age of 46. I guess I just inherited his mechanical skills. Growing up, we had two screw drivers in the house - the little one, and the big one with the broken handle. We kept them in the top drawer in the kitchen, where we were most likely to need them.

Maybe it’s something they put in our cheerios out here that has allowed El Guapo and me to see life’s wet sump as being perpetually half-full, and not half-empty.

Although, when I was living on the barren tundra of New Jersey, I thought my little village also one of the fairest places on earth. It could be I’m just naturally oblivious. Or maybe it’s the photographer in me always trying to put things in, literally, the best light.

I got a Nikon camera, love to take photographs. My Kodachrome makes all the world seem like a sunny day.

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