> You got it -- to put it kindly, I was unimpressed. He was very quick to
bark up the wrong tree.
>
> (I found needles from Joe Curto, but thanks for the offer).
>
> Duncan
>
> On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Kramer, Robert wrote:
>
>> Duncan Let me guess, he wasn't as "Handy" with Old English Jaguars as one
might expect?
>>
>> I have lots of needles.
>>
>> Bob Kramer
>> Southern Construction Inventory Manager
>> RDO Equipment Company
>> 16415 N. IH 35 Pflugerville, TX 78660
>> 512-687-7422 Office
>> 512-657-8526 Cell
>>
>>
>> Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out. ~John Wooden
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Duncan Charlton
>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:38 AM
>> To: fot
>> Subject: Re: [Fot] Colortune spark plugs
>>
>> I had gone to a local guy who advertises his prowess in working on British
>> cars, in hopes that he might have a selection of SU needles (now, exactly
how
>> many years has it been since a production car was sold in the US with
SU's?).
>> Plus he has a British accent = knowledge about British cars, right?
>>
>> He insisted on quizzing me about how I knew that the mixture was rich, so
at
>> first I thought perhaps he knew his stuff, but when he insisted that the
ONLY
>> way to know if an engine was running rich was to use Colortune, I tuned
HIM
>> out and vowed never to return. I had a disturbing mental vision of my
darling
>> wife strapped to the left front fender watching for combustion color while
I
>> did full-throttle runs to redline.
>>
>> Duncan
>> 1952 Morgan Plus 4 #6 red
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:57 PM, Bill Babcock wrote:
>>
>>> they're kind of a bad joke, surprised they're still around. I tried them
in
>>> the late 70s to no particular benefit. Problem is they're only to be used
>>> around idle, and setting the mixture at idle is the least difficult and
>>> smallest value part of tuning.
>>>
>>> On Jun 29, 2011, at 5:23 PM, sherry robyn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is anybody using Colortune spark plugs to any advantage? Jim in Folsom,
>> CA
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