axel breaker earl
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Well, the stock carb actually has to have most all of that emission stuff to operate without staying in limp mode. The fuel solenoid in the center of it has to have the input from the ECU and the ECU needs it's reading from the O2 sensor......and on and on.
There are too many devices hanging on the passenger fender that alter the signal to the stock carb........it'll run without them, but probably not very good, and the gas mileage will be worse.......it has a default "limp mode" in which the carb's idle gets tuned to a rich condition when something is off on the signals going to it.
Give it a shot though since you have removed it all and see what you get......plug all the open vacuum ports on the carb, and just use one that has vacuum on it for the vacuum advance on the distributor.
Let us know how it goes.