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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Being the bastard step child of this upstanding organization, I resemble that remark.</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, May 21, 2020, 01:57:57 PM EDT, Jerry Van Vlack via Wpta <wpta@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">That's a great story.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-----Original Message----- <br clear="none">From: Mark J Bradakis via Wpta<br clear="none">Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:24 AM<br clear="none">To: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wpta@autox.team.net" href="mailto:wpta@autox.team.net">wpta@autox.team.net</a><br clear="none">Subject: Re: [WPTA] SU Carbs<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 5/21/20 8:42 AM, Nick Gaten via Wpta wrote:<br clear="none">> I have SU’s on my ‘59 Morgan, never had a problem but am trying a Weber 40 <br clear="none">> DCOE on a Midget I am restoring.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">My usual quip regarding Webers is that their main advantage is they are<br clear="none">infinitely adjustable. Their main disadvantage is that they are<br clear="none">infinitely adjustable.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Back when my computer sys admin career ended, 2005, I was making my beer<br clear="none">money working for a friend of mine at his repair shop. He actually did<br clear="none">all sorts of cars, but his main love was British stuff. His father had<br clear="none">this pristine MG TC. Anyway, he knew SUs pretty well, was a die hard MG<br clear="none">guy. Being a Triumph guy I knew Strombergs, and from autocrossing and<br clear="none">performance improvements Webers pretty well. Between the 2 of us we had<br clear="none">like 4,732 years of experience with the things. I don't recall we ever<br clear="none">had a car come in with carb problems we couldn't fix. Sometimes it took<br clear="none">a while, often just to ascertain for certain that the carb was the<br clear="none">problem, not the ignition. That alone is a major part of the battle.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">One of my favorite moments was this fellow had a really nice Jaguar E<br clear="none">type coupe sporting 3 SUs. He had some driveability issues, and I spent<br clear="none">some time fussing with it. He came in to pick up the car, but I wasn't<br clear="none">quite done. I was doing the final tweaking and balancing, he watched me<br clear="none">for a while. I did the final balancing as he watched, adjusting each<br clear="none">carb by ear, just listening to the engine idle. No hose in the carb<br clear="none">throat for me. I tightened up the linkage, satisfied with my work. I<br clear="none">told him I better check to see how close they are. I grabbed an airflow<br clear="none">meter, one a little fancier than the usual flat plate with the vertical<br clear="none">tube and the red plastic bobber. This one had a numbered scale. He<br clear="none">watched as I put the tester to each carb, and each carb gave the exact<br clear="none">same reading. He was REALLY impressed! I was just really glad I got<br clear="none">that lucky!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">mjb.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wpta@autox.team.net" href="mailto:wpta@autox.team.net">wpta@autox.team.net</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-------------------------------------<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.wptriumph.org" target="_blank">http://www.wptriumph.org</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Donate: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br clear="none">Archive: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br clear="none">Unsubscribe/Manage: <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/wpta/jerryvv@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/wpta/jerryvv@roadrunner.com</a><div class="yqt2026642971" id="yqtfd47309"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wpta@autox.team.net" href="mailto:wpta@autox.team.net">wpta@autox.team.net</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-------------------------------------<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.wptriumph.org" target="_blank">http://www.wptriumph.org</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Donate: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br clear="none">Archive: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br clear="none">Unsubscribe/Manage: <a shape="rect" href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/wpta/bobastor@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/wpta/bobastor@yahoo.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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