225 Slant needs a good idle. what rpms are you spinning?

rustycowll69 said
maybe there's no drag on the engine, because there is little frictional losses on his engine. I'm just saying, if the engine WANTS to idle lower than some arbitrary number, say 700, does it really NEED to be sped up to this arbitrary speed? I imagine the idle speed specs are an average recommended speed, taking into account fresh oem engines. Maybe his engine is an outlier, and doesn't require 700rpm idle speed.

I agree!
When I was a kid, just learning about working on cars back in the middle 70s, I remember very distinctly that the mark of a good tune up was how low you could get it to idle and still be perfectly smooth.
Oldsmobile Nailheads were the best. You could get those things down so low you could just about grab a fan blade and stop it.