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Old 10-19-2009, 07:08 AM   #47
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Re: Engine Starves for Fuel When I Hit Second Gear

If you have the secondaries shut and the primaries open a 1/4 turn, i am going to venture and say you have either a blown or the wrong size powervalve. Do you know what your vacum reading at idle is? and what size powervalve you have in there now?

Big overlap cams will "smell of richness" idleing, but that doesn't mean you need to turn the idle screws down so far as to possibly make it lean on the idle circut---unless the PV is just dumping fuel in, then obviosly its a tuning problem there.

Some engines like some plugs better than others, but you shouldnt be fouling any type of plug that quick.
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