[Spridgets] Skanky Miss (LBC)

[Ron Soave]

--- Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bud
> I'm fighting the same thing today on
> the street Bugeye, car ran similar to how you
> describe. 

Well, it was too much air/not enough fuel, but random.
  No leaks, compression checked fine, valves were spot
on. Plugs looked great on rear 2, crappy on front 2.
But it's a Weber - WTF? I found the damn screw that
holds one of the venturis on the brand new,
run-today-for-the-first-time Weber backed out
completely (lock tabs are useless) and the venturi was
spinning like dial-a-mixture. It is somewhere between
the garage and the end of the block. That exact thing
happened to me at Road America 2 years ago and the
screw was laying on the shock absorber - it had been
there for 2 laps. On THAT car I reinstalled with
safety wire. On this carb, it was brand new so I
didn't touch it. The quality on the new Weber appears
to be a big notch down from the pre-strike days, like
the one I regret selling last year....

Ron