So what is it that I've been doing wrong with my 150 CDs and 150 CDSEs
that I could never get the GT6 to run right with them? It developed a
dramatic miss and loss of power on any hard left-hander, such as turn 5
at RA or the 4 - 5 combination at Blackhawk.
SCB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TR3197@aol.com [SMTP:TR3197@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 12:43 PM
> To: vinttr4@geneseo.net; peyote222@email.msn.com
> Cc: Malaboge@aol.com; emanteno@ibm.net; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Re: Fuel System Questions
>
> Jack, there goes one of our 'speed secrets'. There will a run on
> Strombergs
> now.
>
> Joe
>
> Baxter Culver wrote:
> >
> > Strombergs as "junk". Years ago, when I was finishing the
> restoration of a
> > Lotus Elan which had 175 Strombergs, I attended one of those
> seminars held
> > by a former Lotus works racing guy (whose name has been obliterated
> by a
> > pint or more of good scotch) who said, and I quote, "the fastest
> racing
> > elan we ever set up had stombergs" "faster than the best we could
> do with
> > webers on a works Type 26r" He wasn't selling the secret
> needles--but he
> > did tell us which ones seemed to be the best for an upgrade. Damn
> thing
> > did run well after that, I must say. So! Strombergs as junk?
> >
>
>
> Thanks for the encouragement. There are some disadvantages to
> Strombergs, to be sure, but some of the dire predictions of failure
> just
> have not happened to me -- for example, I've never had a diphragm
> break
> in three years of racing.
>
> One of the interesting aspects of Strombergs is that on the limited
> flow
> bench work I had done, a stock Stromberg 175 showed higher flow than a
> stock SU. A slightly modified Stromberg 175 showed even higher flow.
> Nevertheless, I recognize that the fastest cars do run S.U.'s, and I
> plan to prepare a set of S.U.'s and do a back-to-back comparison on a
> test day just to further feed my curiosity.
> > >
>
> --
> uncle jack
> 61 TR4 Rallye Replica Racer
> 71 TR6 Street Car named Desire
>
>
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