bluesbish
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I am currently running a factory ford holley off of a mid 80's windsor HO on my 351. I modified it slightly for off road use with a crossover vent tube. It is functioning well on the street at this point other than a long delay before the secondarys open, and on cold start I have to feather the throttle for about 20 seconds before it will stay running on high idle. I have high idle set at about 1400 rpms, it used to stay running at about 1800 on start up but I did not like it so high so I turned it down some, I have adjusted the choke t-stat to where I think it should be and that seems to be opening at a normal rate of time. Should I keep tinkering with this thing or purchase a q-jet or holley TA? Please spare me the lectures on how I should convert to Fuel injection, I am well aware of the benefits and have considered it long and hard while I was building this bronco and decided to stay carbed. If I convert to Q-jet, should I just grab a non feedback type from a chevy 350 and bolt it on with necessary adapter? Or are there modifacations I should make on the q-jet? I am looking for jump in the truck, pump accelerator pedal once, turn key and drive!! and of couse maintain good manners offroad. not doing extreme rock crawling or anything but some nice trail riding with obstacles. I used to have a 460 in a f350 with factory holley that never stumbled ever no matter what, that is what I was trying to reproduce with the carb I am running now. Thanks for any ideas guys.