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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 05:39 PM
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Question rough idle( rebuild)

I just finished rebuilding 1978 302 motor it seems to run rough at idle, go to about 1500,1800 then smooths out it has the following done to it 40 over,mild cam, elderbrock torker manifold ,with 600 cfm carb,hei distributor at idle it almost seems like dead miss but can't tell don't remember motors with mild cam's acting like that however it's been awhile since I fooled with an older carbed motor new stuff is so smooth were should I look first, Thanks Mike
 
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 06:26 PM
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it's probably just a matter of carb and timing tuning
 
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