Plugging during winter

[luvbowties]

[QUOTE=TJT;6232834]I would still be driving it everyday, and plugging it in a few hours before I need to drive it.



Thanks for enlightening me on what you were aiming for. I agree 100% with others' suggestions about curing your problem without plugging anything in. With your carb adjusted properly, & assuming an automatic choke, you should be able to pump the accelerator to floor once, take your foot completely off the accelerator, turn the key, and start engine; it should then continue running by itself at a fast idle while you wait just a few seconds (like 15 +/-) before you 'bump' the accel once to let the fast-idle cam on the carb release the choke cam to a slower-idling detent position. At that point you should be able to drive off without hiccups, as it slowly warms up and rotates the choke butterfly to full-off position.

As others have said, you need to have the heat riser functioning properly:IMPORTANT. With proper tuning (plugs, wires, vac. advance, mech. advance, heat riser, carb settings, etc) and adjustments, you should be able to enjoy the above-described start-ups without additional block-heating. We can achieve this scenario here in SC, where our winters produce some 20-degree mornings. Hopefully, you can do the same in your geog. area. *BTW: I lived in Flint, Mi. right out of high school, where I bought a $75-rusty '55 Chevy with 6 cyl. and 3 on tree--mainly to garage my '57 rust-free Chevy from SC. By tuning just as described above, it would perform just as above. But I will admit that on some of the near-zero mornings, I'd sometimes pump the accel to floor 2-3 times before turning the key. [The '57 v-8 'power pack' I took with me from SC would perform the same AFTER I rotated the choke 1 or 2 'marks' richer than where I had it set in SC.]

Luck with good tuning! Should be all you need to enjoy your ride as was intended from GM!
Sam