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I took the time to do a little work today after getting leaves swept up in the driveway. After some careful massaging with my ring mandrel pliers my choke coil is now once again coil shaped. With some adjustment of the linkage my choke now fully opens without any fussing, and the fast idle happily drops down when the throttle is blipped. Sitting and watching a divorced choke open is rather like watching a pot boil.

I will say, after rebilding and adjusting Holleys and Edelbrocks, I'm not sure why the Quadrajet has such a bad name. It may be a little fiddly in some respects, but it was easier to seal up than the Holleys I've worked on, and no harder to do initial tuning than any Edelbrock I've had. I realize having a manual transmission may make things a little easier to dial in, but I am really impressed with how responsive it is too. Very snappy off idle response, smooth secondary transition, and a great noise through an unsilenced aircleaner...what more could you ask for.