[Healeys] HS4 Tri-carb tuning

[John Spaur]

I might have a Colortune but I don't know where. However, I don't think a CT
will help answer my question. I want to know if other Healey owners, with
three S.U carbs (HS4's) or even two, know if lifting the piston 1/4"will
stall the engine when independently tested on each carb.

 

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
Spidell
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:36 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] HS4 Tri-carb tuning

 

Do you have a Colortune?

On 7/6/2020 7:07 PM, John Spaur via Healeys wrote:

Bob, raising the piston 1/32" is not my issue. I am wondering why the engine
stalls when the center carb piston is lifted all the way up and the others
don't stall the engine when lifted all the way up. I sent another post with
a link for that. The carbs are well synced, I used the S.U tuning kit to
check the piston lift and they are spot on.

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
Spidell
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 6:32 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net> 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] HS4 Tri-carb tuning

 

After much effort and consideration, I decided there must be some Brits who
wrote that 'procedure' laughing their asses off knowing there is no
practical* way to lift the pistons exactly 1/32"

* But you can, if you have the little wire thingies in the poor man's tuning
kit--actually quite useful--stick the wire thingies in the piston and gauge
the piston rise; the wires themselves are pretty close to 1/32" thick

On 7/6/2020 3:39 PM, John Spaur via Healeys wrote:

I installed three brand new HS4 carbs on my BT7 this weekend. They seem to
work really well with no load and light load on some very short test drives.
The jet adjusting nuts are very close to what the old ones were set to. One
of the tests is to lift the piston with the lifting pin as far as you can.
That is supposed to stall the engine. However, this only works on the center
carb. When I test the front and rear, it just slows the engine down a bit.
What have others found when they do this test? BTW, I can hardly tell a
difference in the engine speed when I lift the pistons 1/32".

 

TIA,

 

John

San Jose, CA 

 

 

 

 

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