In case I need to further elaborate. There were no vacuum leaks, I checked for that. No vacuum leaks around intake, carb, carb base, brake booster, nothing. The engine was not just idling high on its own, and that wasn't the only issue. It would also DIE in GEAR. An engine dying when put in gear is generally in my experience a timing or spark issue. Guess what can affect spark, you guessed it, pickup gap. I could not LOWER my idle using the idle set screw because once the engine slowed down to 1200 rpm it would immediately die. Covering the carb didn't increase rpm like it would with a vacuum leak.
I'm usually not one to really care about someone disagreeing with me on the internet, but I know what I did and didn't do.
The last thing I changed was pickup gap, after changing pickup gap I could lower the engine rpm using the idle set screw AND put the car in gear without the engine dying. That isn't a coincidence, that is finding a SOLUTION.
