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Just wanted to share some technical info with you folks. Just bought a C43 a couple of weeks ago. The car was running rich (later found this when spark plugs were checked - black soot). The side effect of this is that the car would backfire (back-fire) under hard accleration in first gear...

First start of the day , engine fires and struggles from 500rpm to 800rpm. Once at 800revs it's ok., runs smoothly and all subsequent starts are fine. The car has done 130k, and fully serviced. Just renewed leads, dist cap, rotor, checked leads , hoses etc. and all seems well............Had...