Anyone gone from Electric choke to manual?

[badmix]

Im tired of messing with my 570cfm street avenger and the choke. 3 caps and it wont set. thinking of going with manual.

also a quick carb question, should the "butterfly" plate at the time move freely with the cam UP, it seems i get a lil binding on the lil piston thingy that is inside the choke area.

 

[StevoandaRedK5]

I (nor my dad) have ever hooked up the electric choke on the edelbrock performer 600 on my truck. I am looking into going manual, and will do so over the holiday break when I am back in town. mostly for simplicity and the rare super cold day that it just won't stay running or something. But i don't mind a knob, and it's one less electrical thing to go wrong.

 

[79rustyk10]

Im just curious but do you really need the choke in Florida? when I DD'd my old 1/2 ton 79 I had a 600 edelbrock and it was the manual choke version. only used the choke in winter time, about 30 degrees or less if I remember right. then again it had a really mild cam though too. I am completly unaware of the specs on your engine so its hard to compare.

 

[noJeepshere]

I had a manual choke on my Jimmy when I had an Edelbrock carb on it. Carb sucked. My morning routine (summer or winter) was to push on the gas, pull the choke, let off the gas, fire it up, push the choke in a bit to let it breathe while warming up, and drive off when it ran smooth. Most of the time around town in winter the choke needed to be set somewhat, prolly because the carb sucked. Could never get the secondary timing right, always either to early and it would lean out for a second, or too late and bog the motor with too much gas. Didn't make much horsepower either. And it was rebuilt before I got it. Even tried electric choke on it for a while and gave up.

I put on a Rochester quad-jet with electric choke, and was very happy until the motor died. Always fired up easy, secondaries stayed timed right, made more power, and the choke never gave an issue. Much better.

 

[Cuztom Racing]

I been wondering this samething

 

[badmix]

Its getting cooler here, so the choke is needed somewhat, I can always just hold the RPMs up with my foot and gas peddle, but the point of me buying a carb with electric choke is to not have to do this. I think ive got some binding in the choke rods or something which wouldnt help things even if I get a manual choke. I looked on Holley website, looks like the manual choke setup is a pita to put on, alot more parts than i wouldve figured, so ill figure it out.