Noob mistakes with your car

Exact same story as the OP but when I looked in the mirror I saw a cop driving through the smoke. This happened twice. Once with my dad when he was in his mustang and I was in the dart. We both smoked the tires twice in front of this cop and we got warnings. The second time was turning onto a four lane. I had the car sideways with tons of smoke. Cop turns on his lights and I pull over. I looked at his name tag and realized it was the nephew of the guy I just bought my rear end off. We had a laugh and talked about mopars and he sent me on my way.

On a serious note. Never retune your carb before addressing other problems. My car had a bed hesitation and wouldn't stay running after it warmed up. I screwed around with my carburetor until it ran ok and then realized my distributor had just moved. I reset the timing where it should have been and no my carburetor is way out of wack.