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Can't use fuel injection thoughts with a carb, or carb thoughts with fuel injection (ever see someone pumping the gas on a FI car to start it? oor in the movies when an engine stalls and they are pumping the gas? I chuckle at it)
good rule of thumb.... you've got 2 idle speeds (for this purpose) the normal idle, around 550RPM and the high idle, around 800RPM.
the car is NOT made to put put into gear when sitting at high idle... just not good for the trans, tho it really wont bother the TH400.
Well, o na cold start, it'll go to high idle, after a minute, hit the gas a little, the idle should go down (kick down) to the normal idle... if not, it'll stay at the iher idle, in that case, wait a little longer, then hit the throttle again and see if she'll kick down...
I found out that once it kicks down, its warmed up enough where it wont stall... so I'd reccomend that. Once we rebuilt the carb tho, she still would sometimes want to stall out after the kick down... but I was used to that.
Of course, more then a few times, for one point or another, I needed to make a quick run in the Caddy, so I'd hop in start it up and be gone.... that was always fun... usually would backfire a couple times.
I miss the 425.... it was so much more...... \"engine\" then newer cars... the computer and FI masks everything, the 425 was so cool for the fact that I could really learn the engine well, it could manage to idle at 200RPM if you were good, and it just felt like an actual engine... newer cars feel more like a propulsion device then a hearty engine under the hood.
