Ken Gillanders told me a racing story many years ago from the late 1950s.
Maybe it applies here.
It seems that a racing Mini had two fire extinguisher bottles. One bottle
was filled with the approved fire extinguisher inside. The other was filled
with pure nitrogen and the driver would flick a switch that released a
sudden huge mass of nitrogen out through small holes in a copper pipe hidden
under the rear bumper. Every corner - just like you Duncan - the cars
following would seem to suffer fuel starvation problems and by the time the
cars following got un-spluttered again, the Mini was far gone.
You need oxygen in the air/fuel mixture - not pure nitrogen and fuel.
Leave it up to Ken to tell a great story !
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From: "MadMarx" <tr4racing@googlemail.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Sputtering TR question
> It seems to me a classic SU dirt problem.
> Debris is somewhere in float chamber and blocking from time to time the
> needle jet.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
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