one warm, one alot warmer, intake manifords Options

[karmanbuilt]

After installing dual 40's on a '76 2.0, and running the tall manifords. They were set up by Jake, and started up the first time....Semper Fi! Anyway, after a valve adjustment, tweaking the timing, and fine tuning the carbs, took the car out for a fifthteen mile run. Still need to tweak the carbs, but noticed the bank of 1 & 2 were just barely warm. Bank 3 & 4 were almost hot! Searched the oldies posts back to 2003, and found a thread on gaskets. I had installed my manifolds with the gaskets that Jake had sent with the set, but had to remove the manifolds to plug the holes on each side. Reinstalled the manifolds with the FI gaskets. My question...sorry this is so long....was I suppose to add paper gaskets w/the FI ones??

[r_towle]

Gene,

You are chasing all the wrong problems.
Get a synchrometer, they are cheap and you will need to OWN one if you have dual carbs....forever.

Learn to sync the carbs, there are alot of good suggestions here on how to do it, but its really simple if you think about the engine as an air pump.

Get both barrells on each side balanced (assume Jake did this, but check them) then sync up one carb to the other using the linkage.

Dont change or fix anything else, you need to balance your carbs first.
Rich