[TR] Fw: zenith or su's ?

[Wayne Lee]

I don't know why this didn't go thru the first time at noon. Cleaned up some
space on the bottom.
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From: "Wayne Lee" <wayne at motorcarriage.com>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 12:03 PM
To: "spook01" <spook01 at comcast.net>; "Triumph List" 
<triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] zenith or su's ?

 I spoke to Joe yesterday on another matter. I don't have any issues with my
 SU's on my TR6. I mentioned him sending out a set of Needles to try on my 
TR6 SU's the
 way I set it with BAE that are now of the fixed type. I had since modified 
the
 profiles on another set on my old 1936 Lorch & Schmidt Watchmakers Lathe 
and will be trying those.
 Joe knows there is no set prescription for the fine tuning of Conversion 
Jobs. He said
 why pay $15.00 for a set of Needles You might have to throw away. I'm going 
to go the
 conservative route and get another Set with plenty of Stock on them to 
modify the profile.
 He sold me complete rebuild Kits with Needles and Diaphragms for the 2" 
HD8's on my
 65 Rolls Silver Cloud but that was an easy application to figure out on 
Cars
 with stock configurations.

  A funny thing he did say was his opinion on everyone's opinions on forums
 and the such on SU Carbs and their Op Ed Websites and some do more harm 
than good
 spreading misinformation.I forgot his exact phrase, but if You know Joe it 
was something to the
 effect. "that opinions are like some anatomical orifice(I forget) and that 
everybody has one"
  Other than having my Tool & Die Machinery here at work to help when doing
 SU work, I discovered my Hobbyist Horological equipment invaluable in 
rebuilding SU's
 from the Ultrasonic Cleaner to the Watchmakers Lathes to re-profile Needles 
and make up Shaft
 Bushings etc..Thankfully my SU's are doing great, but I don't mind 
tinkering to see if
 they could be improved, short of using an Exhaust Gas Analyzer.
  There's not a Carburetor around simpler to work on or modify than the 
SU's. I wish they would
 let me run them on my Cortina Kent powered Hawke Formula Ford instead of 
the
 Weber 32/36 DGV.
 Cheers,
 Wayne
 64 TR4
 75 TR6

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 From: "spook01" <spook01 at comcast.net>
 Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 11:33 AM
 To: "Anthony Rhodes" <spamiam at comcast.net>; <triumphs at autox.team.net>;
 <wayne at motorcarriage.com>
 Subject: Re: [TR] zenith or su's ?

> if i were you guys, i would give joe curto a ring since he has worked on 
> the carbs longer than most have been screwing them up!
> let him select a spring and needle from his lists and send it out to you.
> Best,
> Ray