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Tuning a carb on a rear wheel dyno???


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What is the best way to tune you primarys and secondarys when you go to the dyno. I know how I planned on doing it but want to get some other opinions before I go back. MY thoughts were this:

 

For primarys: car will be at part thottle on dyno. jet primarys until I get about 14 to 14.5 a/f ratio.

 

For Secondarys: shoot for 13 to 13.5 across the board at WOT.

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From what I've heard:

To do part throttle tuning, you'd need a dyno that could put a constant load on the wheels. Inertial dynos are not able to do that. You need some sort of power absorption, like a water brake, huge electric generator, etc. to do steady state tuning.

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14.5-14.7 cruise if you can = gas mileage. 14.0 gives some room for error not corrected by things like a computer ;)

 

12.5-13.2 is what I'd shoot for WOT. You don't want to run the risk of passing 14.7 for sure, plus there's slightly more power to be had right around the 13.0 mark.

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How do you know when you hit those marks? Are you using edlebrock carbs? and how do you even tell where you have it set at?

 

I have an edelbrock 650 on my sbc 350 and it runs really rich, somebody told me to swap out the jets, but I know its gotta be tunable.

 

Its an electric choak whichis not hooked up right now because im not convinced I know how too properly hook it up, lol... does it run power all the time, or should I hook it too a switch?

 

And my question about carb leaning, do you just turn the air/fuel

screw clockwise? (the screw on the left) or do you have to touch the

screw on the right as well?

 

Dan

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