Wow, this post suddenly make me feel very old...

 

Most of my experiances are with an Autolite 1100 (1v) and2 Holley Street Avengers, one on my friends 68 w/ 347 stroker and the other on a 318ci Dodge RamCharger .

 

Tell your friend to put a small phenolic carb spacer on his 347, should get rid of the vapor lock problem

 

Thanks alot for the info guys. I have a Holley street avenger 770 carb w/ holley intake on a 390 big block. Ive only had her for a few days and i didnt know if this was normal as ive never driven a carbuerated car. Thanks!

 

your in for a lot of suprises then, i was suprised at the work i had to do do to keep it up, and its still ****ed up.

 

Im going to Barnes & Nobles today to get a book on carbs. My friends swears to me that you should never have less than 5 carbs.

 

lol well JMD.... i think your set then, just go to like autozone/ advanced autoparts and get it there you'll pay less.

 

Your Street Avenger will work better once you have it set right. Mine fires right up, and only requires me to rev it a little bit to get some heat into the chamber when it's really cold out(I also run straight 30, so it's fighting cold oil as well), but the choke works great even with the fast idle at only like 1,200-1,300rpm.

 

I dont understand what ppl mean when they say a "fast idle"? Is it the same as the idle speed ? Or is it two diff things?

 

Two different things. Fast idle is controlled in the same way as regular idle, but with a different screw. The fast idle screw works off the choke linkage. There is a "step-up" cam that the screw rides on, it's on a low part of the cam when the car is warm, and on a higher step when the car is cold.