[Fot] SU Rebuilder

[rdavis4 at cfl.rr.com]

hmmmm, I've had nothing but first class work from Joe, racing and street, for the past 30 years. For me I would rather pass on the polishing metal and buy additional jets instead.




---- davehogye <dlhogye at comcast.net> wrote: 
> Joe Curto did my carbs and missed a couple things. I had meticulously cleaned 3 disassembled carbs and sent them to Joe to build a set with the best parts between them. 
> While tuning I found that the dampers didn't match, one had a long shaft and one short. I also found that one of the pistons was machined to a larger diameter where the damper fits and one of the carbs, after about 300 miles of use, started to leak fuel from the main jet seal. 
> The problem might be that Joe doesn't actually do the work, but I'm not sure about that. In any event, details were missed. Oh, Joe did send a nice SU coffee mug with the carbs, but unfortunately it was poorly packaged and the handle was broken off during shipping. 
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> I had communicated with Paltech before I send mine to Curto. They sure seemed to be on their game and detail oriented. Their polishing is unique. Their price is, if I remember correctly, less than Curto, but not by much. Both are very reasonably priced and about half to 1/3rd the cost of a new set of SUs, depending on HS6s or H6s. The difference in price was probably about the cost of a coffee mug. 
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> I checked Ray Marty's website and I think it's a fair bet that Ray will actually be doing the work and to a quality level. One photo on his website shows him milling the carb to manifold gasket surface... Really? The photos remind me of a very detail oriented, shall I say completely annal retentive machinist friend of mine. 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Redmond" <alfetta95 at optonline.net> 
> To: "FOT at autox.team.net FOT at autox.team.net" <FOT at autox.team.net> 
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:46:07 PM 
> Subject: [Fot] SU Rebuilder 
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> FoT, 
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> Just finished my first tractor engine build. I'll post a pic on the FoT 
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> Looking for someone to rebuild the SU's. B Who is B recommended? B British 
> Classic Motors are away until end of February. B I could wait until then. 
> B Was just checking on others. 
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> Thanks 
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> Todd Redmond 
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