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Originally Posted by Christ
Idle creates such a miniscule amount of your daily fuel usage (unless you idle alot), you wouldn't even notice the difference.
If it's only doing it when the engine is cold, it's likely just not getting enough fuel in the combustion charge. Not really a big deal, you could either run partial choke, or you could also put a heat riser on your exhaust manifold that might help it a little bit.
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don't forget carbs and seperate whistling drafts. Every tiny bit of turn on certain screws can be 10-20mpg. Real time can't waste time.
As you mention idle, I think the old sube boxer goes to 200 rpm all the time. There is no heaviness of a counterbalance. this pays off very nicely....and it is carbed. of course, like us all with little engines, everything comes back up in the spring and summer.
My most recent holy crap was a cai I put in in the middle of winter. It got sucking air like a vacuum, in northern maine on the highway, thrashed by slush, ice wind and rain simultaneous..skinny little wheels and bald summer tread, ebven in 4lo with diff lock I was thrashed like a rag doll, and the unthinkable happened. it sucked in a snowball, and drenched out...and I wasnlt exactly near an exit..and if I was..there is nothing at the end of the exit...
then, when pulling off the unplowed slurpy mess, a truck went by and splashed so much weight the windshield cracked.
Can't have these silly games where I am...
and the hellcamino driver:
proportianate valve playing tricks is an immediate "out of service" as a truck inspector for dot might say..