Power piston not seating at idle. Help

Discussion in 'The Venerable Q-Jet' started by rdj59, May 6, 2005.

  1. rdj59

    rdj59 It's like sex on ice

    I was tuning the q-jet and thought i'd check and make sure the power piston was seating at idle and low and behold it wasn't. I cut 3 coils off of the stock spring and it still won't seat. The piston isn't stuck and moves freely. The manifold vacuum is between 8-10 inches at 900 rpm during idle. it seems there is a fine line for getting it to idle. If i turn the idle screew out like an 1/8 of a turn it'll want to stall. i goto it to idle steady at 700 in gear and 1000 in park. My intial timing is 14 degrees plus manifold vacuum advance providing 28 degrees total at idle. my cam is a ta 310 with 10:1 pistons advanced 2 degrees. Plus one other thing, i seem to get a slight flat spot when i punch the throttle at like 25 mph and up. Thanks for the help. Jeramie
     
  2. Nicholas Sloop

    Nicholas Sloop '08 GS Nats BSA runner up

    Can't help much, other than to say that's mightly low vacuum, so soemthing is wrong somewhere...
     

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