When you are trying it under the hood, have you got the air cleaner on or off to try. Just wondering if anything is rubbing on the aircleaner ? to make it stick.
Another way is if you do not have the roll of the linkage lined up correctly, this sometimes happens when you use standard brackets on after market intakes.
But if it is Carb related one of the other boys can jump in to clue you up on them as i have not yet had much to do with Edelbrock/Carter carbs.