The best directions for Synching carbs & Adjusting Idle Mixture

Yep. Some nice guy with marketing savvy, management experience, deep pockets, and spare time ought to bankroll the project. I might know such a guy.

Of course, he'd need a partner-- you know, somebody to schlep around Bangkok or Bangalore looking for a foundry that could cast up 10,000 bodies for $10/ea.

I might know a guy for that job as well. 

I had 44 Webers on my IM the first time I owned it and hated them for a number of reasons, including plugged idle jets. 

I thought that fuel injection would solve all my problems, but so far it hasn't.  The problem with FI is there is a lot stuff to hook up/install, including an ECU, and it has to be turned via a computer, which is very daunting to a novice tuner like myself.

Much harder than I thought it would be.

I've finally found someone who says he can tune my CB system....we'll see.

If that doesn't work I'll either try Mega Squirt or rip the whole system out and go back to carbs.

Right now a set of 45 Dells rebuild by Blackline doesn't look so bad....

It's not. It's one of the few things I finally got right (after doing a lot of things wrong). I tried IDFs, ICTs, and highly big-ified, hotted up Kadrons before I finally landed where I should've started in the first place.

I'm going to try a sync-link linkage with the twin-plug motor (which means I'm going to have to drop the "hillbilly cruise-control". Terry Nuckels swears by his, and I've learned to trust him pretty much completely.

There is a lot of good info here, and some poppycock too.

Yeah, yeah, Dells have a better transition. I'll take that Pepsi challenge any day. Period. Drive my car, then you'll understand that it ain't the carbs, it's the state of tune.

Gordo, I can clean an idle jet and be back down the road before you have your air cleaners off to get to yours. So I say big deal that they're on top.

I do agree with Stan that Synch is SUPER important. I do know my mileage went from 18 at pig-rich to a much improved 24-25 at lean-peak, no other adjustments. You spend a LOT of time with the throttle plate a few thousandths open from the idle stops when cruising, so in my opinion you are on the idle jets more than some people think. I know I no longer stink of raw gas after going for a drive like I used to. Also people behind me no longer have tears in their eyes.

Remember, the synch is only as good as the linkage. It's more important than you think. Either sync-link or good ball twist or hexbar with heim joints, without the heims you are whistling Dixie.....

I went from a .60 idle jet to a .575, not a big change but definitely a slightly leaner and more correct A/F ratio. .55 was too small and screwed the transition, gave me a flat spot.

 I don't care which carbs you have, a clean fuel and air supply will keep them running just fine. Maybe the trouble with Webers is the numbers of carbs produced with an equally high number of non-knowledgeable mechanics which led to the fallacy that they suck. Who knows? All I know is it's been years since I've clogged a jet.

Jack, you'll have to ask a Dell expert what is usual as I don't know for sure what to expect.

On Webers I set them all to 2 turns and go from there, as Gordon said t give an even starting point at initial startup.

I do think that going richer than lean peak does two things: wastes gas and can mask tuning irregularities: lean spots, an off timing curve, or flat spots.

Ron, if you go back to carbs, send them to me, I won't take your left arm as payment for a rebuild!

I'm interested in going that route too, when he finally puts a kit on the market that works on a shroud with heater tubes.

OK...I'm surprised that I'm apparently the only one who has no idea what a "Hillbilly Cruise Control " is.

??  A six pack of Bud, braced against the accelerator pedal?

Ron, I'm pretty sure the SincLink will work if you have the 36hp doghouse shroud with heater outlets- the one that replicates the 356 shroud. It won't work with the VW shroud as rhe sheet metal heater tubes protrude too far out and down, obstructing the pathway for the throttle cable housing.

I've got a hand-throttle rigged up for, you know, warming up the car. 

C'mon, Stan, show a photo of the six-pack on the gas pedal.

The trouble is the more Stan drinks the slower he goes.

Terry, I have the 36 hp shroud.

Stan, I rigged up a hand throttle too. Works well when it's cold out. No chokes. Don't need it this time of year at all.

And yes, I've used it as a poor man's or hillbilly cruise control. Requires too much futzing with in the hilly Northeast. I'm sure it would work great on the flats.

My Webbers are in need of a tuning and I will be trying to do it myself (1st timer). Anyone with experience and want to show me the ropes in the Detroit area?