Carb swap - Electric Choke Wiring
OK, so I have a 318 with a Carter up top, and the really elaborate electronic choke control well setup. Due to a choke-shaft related mishap while trying to get at the idle tubes so maybe it'd idle right - sigh - the Carter is getting retired early, and my Road Demon Jr. is going onto the Crosswinds manifold earlier than expected. I'm going to order the Bouchillon kickdown and throttle linkage setup and then figure out what kind of throttle cable I need.
Anybody done a Lokar throttle cable with a Bouchillon kickdown? I don't see anything in my search results for that combo. I can't imagine why I couldn't use the bouchillon throttle assembly, grind off some tabs on the "clamp" to make it sit flat (or just ditch it altogether, not sure how much the bouchillon depends on it to keep the kickdown in place), then drill/grind a piece of angle to bolt to the top with an appropriate sized hole for the lokar cable. Am I crazy? Should I just buy the whole Lokar deal and get in touch with bracketmaking below-the-car?
Second question, re: Elaborate electronic choke setups. When I put on the 4bbl, what wire am I going to hook to? The stock setup (pictured below) appears to have some kind of ballast resistor (again? How many of these things do we need) setup. Do I need to just ditch this wiring altogether and find a switched 12v to tap into, or extend from the harness and delete the ballast? Keep the ballast and hook the choke to that?
OK, so I have a 318 with a Carter up top, and the really elaborate electronic choke control well setup. Due to a choke-shaft related mishap while trying to get at the idle tubes so maybe it'd idle right - sigh - the Carter is getting retired early, and my Road Demon Jr. is going onto the Crosswinds manifold earlier than expected. I'm going to order the Bouchillon kickdown and throttle linkage setup and then figure out what kind of throttle cable I need.
Anybody done a Lokar throttle cable with a Bouchillon kickdown? I don't see anything in my search results for that combo. I can't imagine why I couldn't use the bouchillon throttle assembly, grind off some tabs on the "clamp" to make it sit flat (or just ditch it altogether, not sure how much the bouchillon depends on it to keep the kickdown in place), then drill/grind a piece of angle to bolt to the top with an appropriate sized hole for the lokar cable. Am I crazy? Should I just buy the whole Lokar deal and get in touch with bracketmaking below-the-car?
Second question, re: Elaborate electronic choke setups. When I put on the 4bbl, what wire am I going to hook to? The stock setup (pictured below) appears to have some kind of ballast resistor (again? How many of these things do we need) setup. Do I need to just ditch this wiring altogether and find a switched 12v to tap into, or extend from the harness and delete the ballast? Keep the ballast and hook the choke to that?