2.0L ('83-'88) Electric choke and cold start issues

[DJonezy13]

Still tinkering away with this 87 of mine. I mounted a weber 32/36 carb on this ol girl and she seems to like it fine. Runs really good when warmed up but I think the electric choke is either wired wrong or non functioning because she does not like to cold start and idle. 10° this morning in Iowa and If I sit in it and just rest my foot on the throttle she'll stay running but if I remove it she'll sputter and die. I've got the idle set at 900 with a tach. Seems to me like the choke is opening too soon. The stock carb had a 2 wire plug with a red and a black going to it so I spliced the spade connection to the red wire and taped the black one. I'm wondering if, because I pulled all the vacuum lines off and ran the distributor to the manifold, the servo/sensor by the battery is not getting the right info to operate the choke.

Thats a lot of words to say I've got something screwed up and need to know if anyone had similar issues and how'd they fix it

 

[franklin2]

Manual choke kits work great. You just pull the knob out for choke, push it in for no choke.

 

[RobbieD]

Manual choke kits work great. You just pull the knob out for choke, push it in for no choke.

That "Manual choke" thing sounds like a great idea.

Does it come with an app so that I can work it from my phone?

 

[franklin2]

That "Manual choke" thing sounds like a great idea.

Does it come with an app so that I can work it from my phone?

Invent that and make a million dollars. Though I guess the only market would be for older carbed vehicles.

 

[superj]

Your electric choke doesn't care where power comes from and you can even let it work without power. It will just open slower.

Did you set closed so its barely touching when cold. You can run the power wire from anything nearby if your red choke wire isnt turning on your test light, or giving power to your multimeter.

I have run that same weber on a few vehicles and usually just set the choke to barely touching the throat at cold and use whatever is nearby to run 12v to choke element spade and its always worked fine.

Your cold start cam should hold the idle up while the car ia warming and once you push the gas pedal, it will drop off and idle teally low/die if you dont keep feathering it till warmed up