Peepers
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Any idea what this is and where I can get a wiring diagram for it? Or should I just get rid of it and wire everything like in the diagram.
Exactly what that is. These came out in just before I got out of the Navy in 74 and left San Diego (NAS Miramar.) I had a part time job at the auto hobby shop. CA required them to be added on some models and older cars. The simplest one was a disaster for stuff like 55 Chevs. The simple one was a pair of carb idle screw caps, two vacuum caps, and a tube of slime green silicone rubber. You removed the dist. vacuum advance hose and threw it away, and capped off the vacuum. Them you adjusted the timing way WAY back retard, you leaned out the carb until it would barely run, and then capped the idle screws and glued them on with the green silicone
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The difference in the carter kit is that it sensed when the engine got too hot, and turned the vacuum advance on to advance and cool down the engine.
Yup, and make sure it gets thrown out for good!Thanks for the reply good to know. So what I gather is remove it.
so...that's why 70s cars ran like dogs...Exactly what that is. These came out in just before I got out of the Navy in 74 and left San Diego (NAS Miramar.) I had a part time job at the auto hobby shop. CA required them to be added on some models and older cars. The simplest one was a disaster for stuff like 55 Chevs. The simple one was a pair of carb idle screw caps, two vacuum caps, and a tube of slime green silicone rubber. You removed the dist. vacuum advance hose and threw it away, and capped off the vacuum. Them you adjusted the timing way WAY back retard, you leaned out the carb until it would barely run, and then capped the idle screws and glued them on with the green silicone
"Your gobt" at work
The difference in the carter kit is that it sensed when the engine got too hot, and turned the vacuum advance on to advance and cool down the engine.
That was another argument I got into on here. Some claimed that 72 never had EGR. I have a manifold!!!Garbage even when they worked. remember the open "EGR" ports at the bottom of stock intakes?
Thing is Pishta, at some point they were required clear back to 55. This may have been "by county." The really really cheap kit I mentioned before came into the hobby shop on a 55 ChevAnother reason I bought a 65 in Cali...
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Oh yeah! The first manifold I sold here was a '73 340 with a pair of stainless plugs in the floor with a .040 inch or so orifice drilled through them. If there was ever a reason to need a 14 heat range (maybe even higher) champion spark plug, that would probably be it...remember the open "EGR" ports at the bottom of stock intakes?