[6pack] carb problems

[Mark Hooper]

And I found that adding a third Stromberg carb to my TR added 50% to the grin
factor when looking at the engine without significantly changing the
consumption. The shininess of the third K&N also added a belief in increased
low-rpm torque.

Seriously for a mo; I heard all sorts of terrible tales about ZS carbs and
cold starting, but never had a problem. I ran my TR6 through 4 Montreal
winters. Never an issue starting or running, even after a couple of days
sitting in a snowdrift. Lovely to hear it fire right up at -35 degrees.
Unfortunately the road salt got at it and the body fell off like Clouseau's
Silver Hornet... Still rebuilding from that 20 years later.

Mark
1972 TR6

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From: 6pack-bounces at autox.team.net [6pack-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
marty sukey [trmarty at hotmail.com]
Sent: June 1, 2010 10:44 PM
To: gtwincams at gmail.com; 6 Digest
Subject: Re: [6pack] carb problems

FWIW I have no dyno results comparing the ZS VS S.U. but when I swapped my
well tuned ZS for S.U.'s on a built motor my quarter mile times of upper 15
second range did not change.

Marty



> I run ZS carbs on my Elan and my TR6, have rebuilt them (and spare
> sets), and maintain them, and performance is great. Having said that, I
> haven't tested any motors on a dyno to compare properly tuned SUs vs. ZSs.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg Tatarian
> 1971 Lotus Elan S4
> 1974 Triumph TR6
> 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV (on Webers)