okay, I'm sitting here gapping my spark plugs (which is right up there with indexing plugs in my book.) And despite I've already bought the plugs. I was wondering what you guys think.
the monte has a 350 in it from a 87 GTA. with a Holley 600 carb with vacuum sec. I've turned down my idle and adjusted my idle mixtures down to just above 'running' (1 1/8 turns right now) for the car. and the float levels are perfect. But the car still burns rich. Though no more hideous black smoke now you just smell it, could this because :
A) The days I spent trying to make it stop burning rich while the carb was dumping fuel through the base plate could of caused the plugs to foul.
B) The gap in the plugs was only .035 and I have a HEI system.
C) It's a carb engine and I'm going to smell gas regardless.
And do you guys think I might get lucky with simply getting a hotter plug and gapping it right (I'm doing now.) This is what I've heard from my some people, while there are others that say it wouldn't make a difference. I know the gap will, but will the plug temp matter that much on a NA engine?
Thanks in advance.