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Want to discuss Holley Electric Chokes a bit with the forum. Now that cooler weather is here, I am more concerned with getting fast idle and enough choke - long enough.
I found the easiest way to adjust the fast idle screw is to unscrew the choke housing. Very hard to get to otherwise. With the housing loose and flopping around, you can adjust the screw with your fingers. A couple of iterations and I have settled on about 1500 RPM fastest fast idle.
Okay, now the problem is that the electric choke (running off alternator stator voltage) comes off much too quickly. Couple iterations on that adjustment and I find I need to turn the choke spring housing a fair amount past the scale (CCW which is the rich direction) to get enough choke long enough - and the choke does not come completely off (butterfly straight up). It is open enough to be called open, but I am less than thrilled by where it ends up. So this kind of says to me too much heat too soon, if I can lessen this (which should already be less than it could be since I am running stator - less than 12V) the choke would come off more slowly for a given housing setting (like perhaps back on the scale). So I could put a power resistor inline to lower the choke voltage some more but this seems kind of hokey to have a hot resistor hanging out somewhere under the hood.
Any thoughts guys?
Regards,
Bob
I found the easiest way to adjust the fast idle screw is to unscrew the choke housing. Very hard to get to otherwise. With the housing loose and flopping around, you can adjust the screw with your fingers. A couple of iterations and I have settled on about 1500 RPM fastest fast idle.
Okay, now the problem is that the electric choke (running off alternator stator voltage) comes off much too quickly. Couple iterations on that adjustment and I find I need to turn the choke spring housing a fair amount past the scale (CCW which is the rich direction) to get enough choke long enough - and the choke does not come completely off (butterfly straight up). It is open enough to be called open, but I am less than thrilled by where it ends up. So this kind of says to me too much heat too soon, if I can lessen this (which should already be less than it could be since I am running stator - less than 12V) the choke would come off more slowly for a given housing setting (like perhaps back on the scale). So I could put a power resistor inline to lower the choke voltage some more but this seems kind of hokey to have a hot resistor hanging out somewhere under the hood.
Any thoughts guys?
Regards,
Bob