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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 09:00 AM
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It seems that the rings on my engine have finally seated a little better (at least it looks like). The smoking stopped and I'm consuming less oil. I have still some oil consumption but it's much less. I also get rid of the dieseling problem. The only thing I did was to set the idle lower. I'm idling now at 850 - 1000 RPM. The idle used to be between 1100 - 1250 RPM which caused some dieseling...

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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 09:20 AM
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Congrats................. :cheers:
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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 09:31 AM
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Congrats................. :cheers:
Thanks! I will put the car again on the dyno as soon as I get my distributor re-curved and my carb swapped to a mechanical secondaries carb.

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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 10:51 AM
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cool. let us know how it goes.
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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 11:17 AM
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cool. let us know how it goes.
I will! I might even go to Dyno Day in Orlando this Saturday but I'm not sure... I think it might be better swapping the carb fist and then dyno...

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