british-cars
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Starting quickly

To: british-cars@Alliant.COM
Subject: Re: Starting quickly
From: mit-eddie!harvard!beaver.cs.washington.edu!microsoft!timke@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue May 15 09:57:39 1990
ed sez:

| It's the damp - gotta be the damp.  Ya see, it's just too dry over here,
| and there isn't sufficient dampness to allow the smoke to freely flow
| through the electrics.  Also, a lack of dampness means that the Z-S
| and SU carbs have limited voodoo transmission capability until they are
| wetted by the fuel.

So THAT'S why my TR6 and E-Type start and run so smooth!  The weather
here in Seattle is about as close to England's kind of damp as you can
find in the US.  I had noticed that they both run better in a light
mist or fog than on those 3 sunny days a year, but I thought it was
just a quirk of my cars, not a consistent design requirement...

tim



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>