I believe that Solex cars can outperform SU cars at high revs, but only if
they are tuned!
Forgive me Calspeed, but after all, this was posted last year after Doheny.
On the way back Calspeed raced his 67.5 Solex against my 66 SU 2000. He
couldn't catch me. We got up to about 110 and he was always at least a car
length behind. I felt pretty good about my engine after rebuilding it, and
had it tuned pretty good. After that, I'm sure Calspeed did some work on
his Solex carbs!
Oh, to make it fair for his car, we started the race above 3500 rpms in
4th. I can take him from a dead stop!
Fred - So.SF
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> From: Andrew Murphy <solex67@hotmail.com>
> To: datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Vindication (Sort of)
> Date: Saturday, May 13, 2000 11:07 PM
>
> List,
>
> I felt terrible after reading the posts about me Pooh Poohing
> (Unintentionally) Vic Laury's and Craig Carter's car.
>
> When I re-read what I had written, I felt a little better. What I said
was
> that the GRAY car didn't have the punch of my car. I didn't say anything
> about Vic's or Craig's car being slower than mine.
>
> So I make a full retraction about SU cars being slower than Solex cars.
>
> I remember Vic Laury telling me that Solex cars only outperform SU cars
at
> high revs.
>
> comments?
>
> Andrew Murphy
> 67.5 2000 Solex
> SoCalRoc
>
>
> >From: "Victor Laury" <vlaury@earthlink.net>
> >Reply-To: "Victor Laury" <vlaury@earthlink.net>
> >To: <CarterCM@aol.com>
> >CC: <datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net>, "Andrew Murphy"
> ><andrew.murphy@integtech.com>
> >Subject: SU Envy
> >Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:31:28 -0700
> >
> >Andrew Murphy unbeleivably said >I have to say that after driving this
car
> >I
> >have gained a lot of respect for guys like Craig Carter and Vic Laury
who
> >have 1970 SU 2000s. They drive very fast and this gray car doesn't have
the
> >punch of my solex car. It is still very quick though and the engine
appears
> >strong.
> >
> >Craig and list,
> >
> >I'm too sensitive to be able to tell, so give me a hand here.
> >
> >Are we,
> >
> >(a) being called good drivers with slow cars?
> >(b) Or do we have slow cars that are tunned so well that they are almost
> >fast?
> >
> >Victor
> >70 SRL 31113136
> >Los Angeles
> >http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=123073
> >SoCalROC http://www.ameri-eagle.com/datsun/
> >
>
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