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Fantastic Use For The Missing Fast Idle Lever


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Install a lever next to the choke and wire it to the vacuum advance connection inside the distributor (remove the vacuum advance canister).

The next step is to adjust the cable so that it swings the full excursion of the advance. The final step is to set the nominal advance with the lever in the middle.

In theory this will allow you to set the timing in the middle then push it to dial up more advance for cruising on a highway and pull it to reduce advance for starting the car.

I was trying to come up with a way to increase fuel efficiency then this eureka moment fell upon me LOL.

I think I hear Lazeum smiling :)

You could also make the lever into an ejection seat activator.

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Could you use one of the dual point distributors and use the retarded contact set during starting? You could wire a relay coil in parallel with the CHOKE lamp that shorts the retarded points around the normal ones? You wouldn't have graduated control, but you could switch to retarded with a cold motor that needed choke. Just thinking out loud... I don't even have a choke slot.

 

Although if I DID have one, I'd use it for a lever on 5K pot in series with my CTS and use that as an electronic "choke". I'd even light up the bulb and everything.

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