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Yes, sounds like just the nature of the intake. Mine starts OK, will idle in park OK but it has to get some heat before I can drop it in D or R. When my temp gauge just starts to move. Takes about 3-5 minutes
My choke cable bracket is not like this 3 bolt type. One of my issues is my holding bracket for the cable uses 1 screw and comes loose too often so I tend to not use it. I'll have to check if my carbs have these 3 screw holes, if so then try to find this style of clamp.
Idle speed does not change this. It's already idling very fast due to torque convertor being too tight so there is a large RPM drop when going into gear. A looser convertor would help a lot but something I'm not doing.
Manual chokes. But I don't like to use them. The chokes are more necessary during winter months just to get it started. Yea, I was thinking that maybe choking it cold would help it to not die.
Thought I'd throw this out here to see if I might be missing something. 426 max wedge clone. factory intake, carbs (early 3447S). It has always taken about 10-15 minutes before it will stay idling in gear. Start it up if I put it in D or R it'll die until it's got some heat in it, maybe 5...
So I got it all back together. After a little more research I'm convinced these carbs used the large center screw to adjust the idle speed. It was difficult but after screwing the large center screw outward about 5 full turns it would idle. The carbs became very noisy with air sucking, almost...
Here's what I was told 4 years ago, didn't seem to work for me then I noticed there were idle adjust screws and went that route. Now I find out they stop the throttle from fully opening. So now I believe the idle air adjust on these carbs is correct. Look at post # 5: MAX WEDGE IDLE ADJUSTMENT
Nope. You would have to see it to fully understand that it was not a bent issue what so ever. I was once told to adjust the idle by using the large air adjust that these carbs have, tried it once and I couldn't do so. I've seen pics of other 3447 carbs that do not have the idle screw installed...
I had my 3447 max wedge carbs rebuilt and found out some strange stuff. When I picked them up the fellow pointed out a couple of issues. One was someone installed an incorrect fuel inlet fitting on one carb. The fitting is entirely wrong and I should have had a massive fuel leak but I never did...
That Firecore looks like what I want. Now just to decide if I want to bother. Someone wanted to buy my Mopar 3692021 tach drive dist a long time ago on here. Maybe I need to look into selling it.