[Michael C Henry]

I heard that the local ecology guy could give me a lifetime waiver if I could get my HC's under 900 PPM. This is my last time with mandatory state emmissions testing. 220 PPM or less is the standard. I got close to that at cruise without any catalitic converters (279 PPM). For a Ford 427 FE, that sounds reasonable? I realize I probably never even started to crack the second carbruetor. With out cats that reading of 279 PPM is probably just right jetting? Or should I mess with that part of the mix?
I tried to incorporate the electric solinoid dashpot. It didn't workout as I remember. I don't have as bad a problem as i once had with run on as I did years ago. I did replace the primary carb body with a carb that has a functional choke witha fast idle cam for starting and warmup.

Now during sudden stops the engine tries to die, I beleive that fuel is surging out the vents. I had incorporated vent whistles in the carbs before and had no problem with the engine trying to die. The carbs have since been redone and now do not have the vent whistles and the engine tryes to die in a sudden stop. I intend to refit these carbs with the vent whistles. Now the problem , I have to notch thetop of the side hung floats to clear the vent whistles. I did this before and now I can't remember what to coat the float with where I notch the float.