devestator_x

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I was having a problem with my new Eddy 1406. After installing it was idling real high in Park but low in Drive (1100 in park, 600 in drive) Also it would diesel a bit after shutting of the key if in park. It wouldnt do it if in drive though. I thought it was due to the dizzy being in limp mode, but after this afternoon all this has changed. I set the lean/best idle acording to the manual that came with the carb and had to go much richer with both screws. Now the car idles at 600 in drive and 750 in park. It hesitates less from a hard launch (still some lag though) and doesnt diesel at all when shut off. I would have thought that most of this would have been caused by a rich condition, not a lean one. Maybe the manual had the direction of the screws backwards? counter-clockwise was supposed to be rich. Or maybe I just dont know anything about carbs (which would be more true than the manual being wrong)

five7kid

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What do you mean, "due to the dizzy being in limp mode"? Vacuum/mechanical advance distributors don't have a "limp mode".

You do have a vacuum/mechanical advance distributor, right?

Go get a vacuum/mechanical advance distributor, set initial timing to 8-12 degrees BTDC w/o the vacuum attached, get it set up properly and see how that works.

devestator_x

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No I dont have a vacuum advance dizzy yet. unfortunatly I need to buy a new one as there are none in my area junkyards. Im on such a tight budget that it may be around Sept. or so until I can afford even the $75 jobs I saw on ebay. If anyone has an old mech dizzy, Ill more than glady take it for free (how doubtful is that? ) I had a friend of a co-worker try to sell me a used one for $200, I kndly declined.

Apeiron

It's not even worth the effort trying to tune the carb without the right distributor.

Sonix

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Go to the JY and pick a dist out of an '81 cutlass or basically any older gm (late '60s to mid '80s) and toss it in. You can recurve the timing on it later to get some more juice of of it, but a $200 dist is a waste of cash in my eyes. (at least in your case, not like you're pulling 7k rpms on your solid roller 355 at the strip....)

five7kid

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Post a wanted on the classifieds on this Board, search the parts for sale. Somebody has one they'll sell you.

You can buy a new unit from Summit for less than $150.

devestator_x

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Ebay has a host of them with a buy it now price of $85 for an hei dizzy with 50k volt coil built in, unfortunatly I cant even afford that right now. I have searched the yards around here and they pull all the motors before throwing the cars out in the yard. I asked the sales guy inside and he said they've got nothing thats vac advanced. In fact I was hard pressed to find any GM car that could have had a v8 in it from any year, except one 70 monte carlo with a block, but no dizzy!! Im going to grab one of those that I saw on ebay once I sell some unnessecary stuff from my house, hopefully by the end of the month.

Sonix

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You're going to the wrong JY, plain and simple.