[Fot] Lucas Fuel Injection

[Enquiries Road & Track]

this is the Lucas race set up for those who have never seen it. . i
rebuilt/tuned quite a few back in the day. horrible job juggling/grinding
fuel cams. was used on lots of race engine, 6, 6, 8 and 12. with both 6mm
and 8mm internal shuttle sizes (tiumph were 6mm)

Terry

[image: 6 mm metering units 1.JPG]





On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:54 AM geoff byrne via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Amici
>
> Does anyone on this forum know of any six cylinder Triumphs racing with
> the mechanical fuel cam operated by the throttle . This system was widely
> used in race cars of the 1960 and 70 and available at the time through
> Lucas. Kas reports in one of his publications of experimenting with this
> system to overcome the limitations of the vacuum driven fuel cam. The
> throttle driven  fuel control system is currently available through
> Kinsler  in the US.  I’m currently using a throttle driven fuel control
> mechanism on my TR6 race car but am using the existing fuel cam to comply
> with current regulations. This however greatly limits the ability to
> accurately control the AFR over the full rev range . The adoption of the
> Kinsler unit overcomes this problem but you no longer have a choke of WOT
> adjustment as you have on the standard Lucas unit.
>
> I am interested in corresponding with any racer who has fitted the Kinsler
> unit.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Geoff Byrne
>
> TR6 racer down under
>
>
>
> PS I’ve self-isolated in my machine shop , lots to do
>
>
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