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To: "v8" <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>
Subject: drivability issues
From: "James Nazarian" <jhn3@uakron.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:41:28 -0400
Reply-to: "James Nazarian" <jhn3@uakron.edu>
Sender: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net
I have solved nearly all of my drivability issues with one fix.  The only
thing that I haven't yet solved is my hot idle, but now that I have
everything else working correctly I think I can get the carb tuned correctly
and solve the idle problem and perhaps increase my gas mileage while I am at
it.  I was reading my EPS manual and I read the part about the carb wanting
6psi fuel pressure and that low pressure would wreak havoc on carburetor
metering.  At this point it occurred to me that when I bought a fuel pump I
bought the low pressure one 2-4 psi.  Thankfully when the pump in my
roadster acted up, all I could find was the 4-6 and a pressure regulator.  A
quick swap of the pumps and deletion of the regulator and all is well.  I
didn't swap the points, but it doesn't appear that that will prove necessary
so I'll just hang onto them as spares.

Thanks everyone for sticking with me while I tried to work all of this out,
now its off to tune the thing up right.  With the old pump the jetting
seemed erratic, as a change didn't always produce the desired results,
hopefully now that will get better.

James Nazarian
71 MGB Tourer
71 MGBGT V8
85 Dodge Ram

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