If your running SU's then its definetly the floats cutting off the fuel supply
as the g-force of the turn
swings the floats and shuts the float valve.
Ty Thompson fixed it with what I recall were MG float bowl adapters B that you
could orient front/rear instead of left/right.
jim g
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck WATSON" <clw2000@msn.com>
To: "FOT List" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:23:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Stalling left turns
Also, if you are running Strombergs you might want to check your float
mechanisms to make sure full motion is in place to completely fill the bowls.
Thanks,
Chuck Watson
> From: spitlist@cox.net
> To: my71spit13@yahoo.com; FOT@autox.team.net
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 12:09:31 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Stalling left turns
>
> Sounds like a fuel tank issue. If you have the fuel pickup in the side of
> the tank rather than the bottom or rear, it could indeed be starving for
> fuel when the direction of the turn is throwing the fuel away from the
> outlet.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Shawn Frank
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:02 PM
> To: Friends of Triumph
> Subject: [Fot] Stalling left turns
>
> I have yet to get out to an autocross event here in Iowa, due to snow and
> schedules, but have been able to get my 71 Spitfire out on the street. For
> the
> first drive of the season, I thought I would drive it like I stole it for a
> few minutes. While tearing the side tread off my cheap shop roller tires, I
> took a left turn and the whole thing stalled out, regaining idle once the
> back
> end stopped turning. It did this a few times at the end of the season last
> year, so the seasonal rest is not the culprit. I have tried to replicate it
> with abrupt right turns, but it does just fine. It does it about every time
> turning left. It seems to do it once it is warmed up. It is still carb,
> points, mechanical fuel pump, everything stock but rebuilt. Any ideas on
> what
> may be the problem? I can go around corners at normal speed and there is no
> indications of a sputter or stall. Her name is Gertrude, and she runs
smooth
> and true until she wants to get tail happy turning
> left, but like I said regains power once settled down. Help if possible!
> Thank you in advance!!!
>
> Shawn Frank
> Continued Legacy
> Drive Away Cancer Iowa
> 515-339-4228
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