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Re: RAF Spitfire Bonnet Badge

To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: RAF Spitfire Bonnet Badge
From: richard jackson <richard.jackson@nene.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:21:20 +0000


james carpenter wrote:

> Don't go and do what I did when I needed new carbs.  I went to Spitbits at
> Jingle Farm (I hope the Council shut him down) and got a pair of used carbs
> with "only 30k miles" on them, don't know what he did, but 2k miles later
> and the spindles are more worn than a (insert sick analogy here or "the
> carbs they were replacing").  The hood I got a Spitbits does not fit, and
> the vertical link I got there snapped after 500 miles.  I am quite glad I
> haven't got anything else from there.
>

Cheers, I've heard dodgey reports about them before!  Luckily I have a few
spares sets of HS2's & 4's, so I'll probably rebuild a pair of them sometime.

> Mind you I still get 33 to the gallon, 44 on a long run.  Mabe somthing to
> do with it not reving to over 3800 rpm though.

Is it a 1300 or 1500?  Mine a 1300 with O/D!  Used to get it round to 7000rpm
occasionally without it going bang!! :-) struggles now to about 4500!!! :-(

Cheerio

Rich

ps, I hear Emu's gone solo, although apparently his act's a bit 'limp'!!! :-)


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