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Originally Posted by Sirrotica

Back in the early 80s when electric chokes were becoming commonplace there were growing pains, one being as Jon has mentioned the choke opening at a quick rate that the car would stall.

I had run across a local mechanic that came up with a easy cheap way to fix that problem. He used a chrysler ballast resistor inline to the choke heat wire to slow it down. It worked quite well to keep the choke from opening too quickly, and leaning out the mixture too fast. It may not be the answer to everyone's electric choke problem, but it worked well back in the day on the then, new cars.

in my experiences with elect or hot air chokes, they are adjustable, you can adjust them to determine how long before they fully open... if its opening too fast it can be adjusted to stay on longer, or vice versa to open faster.

i dont doubt there can be variables & growing pains with each car, but for the most part i have never had problems with electric chokes, factory or converted. i also live in the midwest where we have pretty extreme seasonal changes in temps, once adjusted right, the electric choke cars run great in any temps up until it snows when i put them away for winter.