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I've never driven a carb'd Festiva before this, so I have no idea if what I'm feeling is correct, but I'm gonna go ahead and say it's not anyway.
While driving, whether the pedal is floored or not, the acceleration is absolutely smooth, instead of feeling "bumps" up the power scale. I can shift at 3, 4, 5k, and the acceleration will be basically the same through any RPM no matter where the throttle is, except obviously faster (to some extent) with more pedal. Almost like a flat torque curve, really.
5th gear WILL NOT hold speed on hills, etc... even at WOT, even with the microswitch engaged. There is no CEL on, either.
To be quite honest, I can feel in the pedal at point where I'm guessing the secondary is starting to open, and there's clean, normal power increases (still with the smoothness, though) up to that point in the throttle... then it's just flat.
Let the clutch out too fast, it stalls then takes off. I mean during normal driving, not trying to launch it.
Low RPM, about 30-50% throttle, spits and sputters like an impotent jerk being asked to work the 5th weekend in a row. From there, anything past 50% throttle is fine acceleration.
Seems a lot like the carb is still plugged up with crap, to me. I don't really want to disassemble the thing, though, because I'm not even keeping it, I just wondered if there were some settings that someone may have played with that could be affecting it's performance in this way.
For the record, I haven't actually checked much of anything in the lines of tune-up on this car, and it starts up like the first crank (half a turn) every time, for the most part, so I haven't really bothered with screwing with anything, especially knowing that I'm gonna swap IC's onto it.
Other than all that, I've got 2 pairs of CVK30's and an EFI manifold that are about ready to be sacrificed to the Festiva Gods.
While driving, whether the pedal is floored or not, the acceleration is absolutely smooth, instead of feeling "bumps" up the power scale. I can shift at 3, 4, 5k, and the acceleration will be basically the same through any RPM no matter where the throttle is, except obviously faster (to some extent) with more pedal. Almost like a flat torque curve, really.
5th gear WILL NOT hold speed on hills, etc... even at WOT, even with the microswitch engaged. There is no CEL on, either.
To be quite honest, I can feel in the pedal at point where I'm guessing the secondary is starting to open, and there's clean, normal power increases (still with the smoothness, though) up to that point in the throttle... then it's just flat.
Let the clutch out too fast, it stalls then takes off. I mean during normal driving, not trying to launch it.
Low RPM, about 30-50% throttle, spits and sputters like an impotent jerk being asked to work the 5th weekend in a row. From there, anything past 50% throttle is fine acceleration.
Seems a lot like the carb is still plugged up with crap, to me. I don't really want to disassemble the thing, though, because I'm not even keeping it, I just wondered if there were some settings that someone may have played with that could be affecting it's performance in this way.
For the record, I haven't actually checked much of anything in the lines of tune-up on this car, and it starts up like the first crank (half a turn) every time, for the most part, so I haven't really bothered with screwing with anything, especially knowing that I'm gonna swap IC's onto it.
Other than all that, I've got 2 pairs of CVK30's and an EFI manifold that are about ready to be sacrificed to the Festiva Gods.
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