Gee whiz -- didn't mean to open Pandora's box... The "great experiment" was really just fluke curiosity. One day I looked at the loose ends of my full throttle switch, the cold start valve waiting nearby, and thought "Hmm, for the price of a couple of splices and a few inches of wire..." Have flooded my poor engine enough times with the thing at idle (am still curious: do stock cold start valves put out as much fuel as mine? No joke -- two seconds max. Jumping with the warm up regulator really wasn't an option around my hot start problem), to know that nothing was going to be damaged. I just wondered what effect it would have when the engine was sucking more air. I only mentioned on the list in case other inquiring minds worked alike. Apparently they don't. If I can't find anything else to activate with the switch, will just remove to avoid future temptation ('cause it might be possible to wire the A/C clutch into a normally closed relay triggered by the thing...) Bill Robertson #5939