Sounds like you've got a bad vacuum gauge. Good engine vacuum #'s are in
the 15-20" range for a mild engine setup.
"patricktee" <patrickth DeleteThis @theyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am running a modified engine in my chev 350 and getting a reading of
> 40 with my vaccum gauge. Does that seem about right for a good
> running engine?
>
> Carb shows same thing and steady. Its been so long since I tried to
> tweek something with the gauge I think I forget most of what I trying
> to accomplish.
>
> any body know for sure?
>
>
>
> "But now is the time for the younger men to lock in rough encounters,
> time for me to yield to the pains of old age. But there was a day I shone
among the champions."
>
> Homer, The Illiad, 23.715-719 (800 BC). King Nestor of Pylos.
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