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I’ve been considering no choke……….
I used to have a manual choke but it was a bit hit and miss, and also I never quite trusted that it was not fully open (and staying open) even after the engine was warm. No biggie I could have tested for sure.
Electric chokes kind of take away your control – if something goes wrong with them you can’t start the car – cold or hot. How likely is that to happen? Very unlikely I guess but I did have a bad experience decades ago with my daily driver.
However running no choke is not a no brainer either. First I’d like to be able to start and drive away quickly on the odd occasion I would leave early in the morning in my Challenger – to keep the peace with the neighbours! And presumably if you get it wrong you can flood the carb etc (can also do this on a manual choke).

For these reasons I got to thinking about a couple of block heaters instead. Most of the time would not need but for that occasional early start in very cold weather it would achieve the aim and your engine and cylinders would thank you for it too.

Maybe overkill but just another option…..



A choke is nothing to be afraid of, expecially a manual choke. You can bolt a small piece of wire on manual choke carb to keep it from coming on like I did forever. Then it was real easy to bolt a cheap metal choke cable in place of the wire I bolted in.

That's all there is to it. No tricks or secrets and helps a ton at start up, then turn it off after it starts(push the cable in)

It's not something someone should stress over ...lol

FWIW I would not run a race carb on the street now thAT i REALLY DRIVE MY CARS.

A finely tuned muscle car on thee street impresses me way more than brut horsepower, on the street.

I'm becoming a dinosaur as it seems less and less people know how to tune a old car, or any car for that matter.