<VV> hard starting

[RoboMan91324 at aol.com]

Jay,

Pre-Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI) cars seem to have personalities when it 
comes to starting procedures.  Sometimes EFI cars also have personalities.  It 
seems they develop more personality as they age.  I have looked at many cars 
over the years and fairly often, the owners tell me the proper starting 
procedure for their particular car.  If your car starts up consistently without 
touching the gas pedal, then that is the "personality" of your particular car in 
your particular Florida environment.  Just go with it.  Of course, if you take a 
trip to the land of the Snow Birds or you have a cold snap, you may have an 
issue if your chokes aren't working properly.

My Fxxd has multipoint EFI and it has had a starting personality since new.  
If you hit the starter, it might take 3 seconds to start.  However, if you hit 
the starter for a fraction of a second, stop and then hit the starter again, 
it starts instantly.  Strange.

Doc
1960 Vette; 1961 Rampside; 1962 Rampside; 1964 Spyder coupe; 1965 Greenbrier; 
1966 Corsa Turbo Coupe; 1967 Nova SS; 1968 Camaro ragtop
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In a message dated 12/2/2008 2:29:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:29:31 -0500
> From: "Jay Ciampi" <jciampi at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: <VV> hard starting
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Message-ID: <05B43AAFE4E24DC68F9BD35E5536A46B at jayv2ddmkcmpyg>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Ok, I am back again.  I guess these Corvairs don't need a "one time push on 
> the gas pedal" to start the car when cold. Mine, so it seems refuses to start 
> that way when cold (meaning that it has not been started in a day or two). 
> It acts like it is flooded. Today I went out and without hitting the gas pedal 
> at all, I cranked the engine and it started immediately. Is that normal with 
> these cars?  As I said before, I am a "newbie" with the "Vairs"  
> 
> Jay
> Florida


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