Starting a cold engine
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2003
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From: Chapel Hill NC
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With nearly any stock engine equipped with a Holley and Auto divorced choke - this is what I have done for 20+ years.
If it has been sitting a couple of weeks I pull of the aircleaner lid and fill the holley bowls through the vents with a squeeze bottle. then a quick squirt into the primary throttle bores.. fires right up immediately.
If it's a restart after recent drive - just hit the key.
Engine cold overnight. once to the floor to set the fast idle/choke. -
Less than a couple of weeks- three times and hit the key.
If it has been sitting a couple of weeks I pull of the aircleaner lid and fill the holley bowls through the vents with a squeeze bottle. then a quick squirt into the primary throttle bores.. fires right up immediately.
If it's a restart after recent drive - just hit the key.
Engine cold overnight. once to the floor to set the fast idle/choke. -
Less than a couple of weeks- three times and hit the key.
