Help me complete my tuning.

Have a 65 stang with a 289, stock 2 barrel, full exhaust and an electric fan, c4 auto and otherwise pretty basic.

I run 87 octane, have timing set to about 8* advance, the air/fuel adjustment screws on the carb are both about 1.5 turns out (rich) and the car idling at about 1,000rpm.

Still adjusting the electric choke to operate appropriately in the morning but otherwise, I am trying to figure out if I have everything dialed in correctly here. The car doesn't feel all that fast but sadly that's my own fault because of the other vehicles I am used to driving and not really familiar enough with carb'd vehicles.

Anyone have any thoughts on this or perhaps some recommendations on some things to do?

Thanks for the posts gentleman!

I will begin tomorrow with the 10 degree mark and see where I end up at, is the idle being at 1,000rpm okay I am assuming?

I am having a little bit of a hard time adjusting for max vacuum with the idle air screws because the gauge kind of dithers a little bit and I cant really tell if there are differences in vacuum without doing large adjustments it seems. Definitely not the way we are aiming for haha. What is the best way to do this considering you want equal tune per bank and you can't really pin point appropriately like this? I am honestly thinking of having a bung welded onto each header and putting my wide band on each side and going for a drive, adjusting as necessary.

I will check out that thread tomorrow, getting ready to climb into bed at the moment...

As for the cam, I known it is an aftermarket cam, but don't know the specs or anything about it, I would assume an RV equivalent to be honest with you. The highest octane we have is 91 which is equivalent of garbage.

Have it set to about 10 degrees of timing, the idle/air mixture screws dialed in to the vacuum and in park it runs at about 1,000rpm and in drive its at about 750-800. Do have issues of it idling rough for a few moments during initial start after its already been warmed up and also having a hard time during cold starts getting it to idle smoothly but it sure runs a lot stronger during wot at operating temperature.