<VV> Dormant car

[kevin nash]

> Yes the chokes are in the intake plumbing on a 60.  First of all I have 
> started many many Corvairs over the years without chokes.  Refuse to believe 
> that a 60 would be any different.  Make em a little rich with the accel 
> pumps and then crank them up.  Second, I had a pair of top condition 64 
> carbs with chokes on there and it made no difference.  Chokes set to closed 
> and vacuum pull offs to crack them open.
> Keven  Not to make too big a thing out of this, but an all blue spark has no 
> amperage behind it to drive it through a highly compressed combustion 
> chamber mixture.  When you start getting some yellow in it and start hearing 
> it crack across the room you are getting a good spark.  Disconnect your 
> condenser and start your car (if it will) and look at that spindly blue 
> spark. 
> 

Smitty- Not to make too big of a deal out of this, but it takes thousands of VOLTS, not amps to properly
and reliably light the highly compressed mixture in an engine, and a spindly blue spark will run a
engine and a fat yellow one wont!! It takes literally MILLIONS of volts and only a couple of amps
at most to make a spark jump a few feet in air and make some noise, and it will be blue, and not orange
or yellow. A properly functioning coil will make a BLUE spark, a bad one, if it sparks at all, will be YELLOW.
Sorry for trying to help.
Kevin Nash