I pulled my car up to the garage to poke around and stick in a 195 degree thermostat. Ended up also adjusting the points in my distributor, I didn't realize how bad they had become. I wonder if they were ever right.
My engine idles really fast now, I am guessing 1500-2000 rpm (don't have an rpm meter). My carb is next in line for a tune. It hasn't been tuned since I pulled it off a junkyard rack more than a year ago
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I am hoping to hit 25mpg on this next tank of gas considering how much a difference those points made. And hopefully higher when I can get my car in for a carb tune. Unless someone here has a good resource on how to tune a carb for FE, I would love to do it myself just don't have any idea how. O'reilly didn't even carry the rochester carb book! lol
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