302 Cleveland idle speed - Ford Forums

XE302 · 06-24-2008, 16:13

Just a quick question of what is an appropriate idle speed for a mildly worked but not very lumpy 302 Cleveland? I had it set too low and it had been running rough and drove very jerky and now I've adjusted the speed and mixture (although the mixture seemed pretty right as it was) and it drives smoother than I can remember.

It's now set to about 800rpm, I'm just wondering if this is too high for a V8.

Btw, on an XD/XE tacho gauge, the first notch above 0 is 500rpm right? Seeing as there's not 10 notches between 0 and 10 like there is for 10 to 20, etc?

Thanks

gooddiff · 06-26-2008, 04:09

xe 302 is it petrol or lpg is it man or auto if it is lpg auto 900 rpm if it is man700 if it is petrol 800 auto man 700 rpm there are a lot of things to consider as soon as you put a cam in you change all dinamics if it is lpg your dizzy must be graphed to 14 degress advanc i have a 351 c 4v on not to many probs it is worked a bit well mild high 14 down quater

XE302 · 06-26-2008, 16:46

Thanks for that, it's a petrol manual so it looks like 700rpm it is. At the moment it idles between 700-800 and it drives really nicely. The rest of it should be set up fine, it was all done properly when it was all initially set up so it's just my tinkering I need to make sure I don't mess up!