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Carb ?????

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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 12:16 AM
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I hooked up a vacuum gage and i am only reading 6 inches of vacuum at idle. I have a healthy cam listed in my sig. and man brakes. I got this reading doing what holley said, which is adjust the 4 idle screws untill max vacuum is reached with out messing with the idle. The stock power valve is 6.5. Holley said divide vacuum by 2 and this is the valve you need. I called them with my reading and they said use a 2.5. The reason i needed to change in the first place is because i was running rich. They said a smaller pavle will fix it. Anyway i put in the 2.5 power valve and now it runs like ***. No backfire, but spitting,coughing, and it just runs bad. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 12:31 AM
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i never used a vac gauge[&:]
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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 02:40 AM
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Any suggestions. Any one have any ideas to get this thing to run right. It was running fine before,just to rich(black smoke and fouled plugs).
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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 02:44 AM
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Check to make sure that the gasket didnt slip on the PV. Is it running bad at idle or all through the rpms?
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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 02:49 AM
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At idle it is fine, but it seems while accelerating through all rpms it runs really bad. It is also harder to start.
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