When cold the car will start, then will die immediately unless you hold the gas for a minute or two. But the weird part is when it's at operating temperature, it idles consistently at 1500-1700rpm. We tried to retard the timing to see what would happen and it made the starting problem worse.

Any ideas? I'm not very experienced with cars so i don't want to mess with the carb unless i know it's the problem.

 

My '83 CVCC 1.5L does almost the same thing. When it's cold, I have to give it some gas and almost coax it to stay idling. When I decide to finally go, it sort of bucks and hiccups, but when the car is warm it runs pretty darn well. I can deal with it for now, but i can see it getting pretty annoying if I just need to run errands and I have to sit and wait until the car feels like going lol.

 

Mine is CVCC also but 1.8L. Mine doesn't even buck or hiccup, it just won't hold an idle when it's cold. I want to put a Weber on it but i won't have the money until later this summer.