[Healeys] [OT] Goblin Works

[Bob Spidell]

They could have been Mikunis.  I think the OEM carbs they took off were 
Strombergs (they look like flattened SUs).
Bob

On 8/15/2019 2:10 AM, Kees Oudesluijs wrote:
> Would they have been Stromberg 150CD or 175CD carburettors as used by 
> most USA spec UK cars like Jensen-Healey, TR5/6, some older big 
> Triumphs, Volvo's and Saab,s They do have a much wider body which is 
> much lower and have a longer neck. The working principle is the same 
> as the SU's.
>
> They also could have been the Japanese Mikuni's which are similar.
>
> The Italian Weber or DellOrto's would have been the better choice. 
> These are/were widely used in most European cars to soup them up as 
> they are easier to fine tune instead of messing about with endless 
> reprofiling needles and adjusting springs in SU's and Strombergs plus 
> you have two barrels in each carb so it is easier to provide each 
> cylinder with its own barrel..
>
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
>
>
> Op 15-8-2019 om 05:19 schreef Bob Spidell:
>> Tonight I caught the season premier of 'Goblin Works' on Motortrend 
>> Channel.  If you haven't seen it, this is an English version of the 
>> ubiquitous American show about car modders.  In contrast to the 
>> American shows, which feature an endless stream of muscle cars and 
>> trucks being slammed, chopped, airbagged, fitted with monstrous and 
>> hideous chrome wheels,  rubber-band tires, LS engines and garish 
>> paint jobs*, this show features some British cars and an occasional 
>> American or other 'foreign' car (and eschews the constant silly games 
>> and grab-assing common on the American shows).  Anyway, tonight they 
>> thoroughly and, I think tastefully, modded a 1275 Austin Mini. They 
>> pulled the stock engine for a core for a 'built' engine and I'm 
>> thinking: "Here we go, EFI or at least a couple Webers" but, no, the 
>> built engine came with what appeared to be a pair of SU carbs!  They 
>> were pretty large, not quite HD8-size, and had longer 'necks' on the 
>> vacuum/piston chambers; anyone know what kind/size SUs these might 
>> have been?  I've seen photos of similar carbs on other Brit cars. Oh, 
>> yeah, the Mini engine dyno'd at 115 BHP--stock was around 50--so who 
>> says SUs don't make power (I'm still pissed at Ant Anstead for 
>> calling them 'garbage')?
>>
>> * I watch these shows for the 5 minutes of interesting and 
>> informative fabrication, welding and engine building in 55 minutes of 
>> grabassery, silly games and outright corniness.
>>
>> Bob
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