[Tech1] car stuff

[Geoff Fletcher]

IAN STANYON  that should have read - not Stanton.
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 21:05, Geoff Fletcher <geoffletch at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I think back to my BBC days in the 1960s  I am amazed to remember all
> the car maintainence we used to do. Tech Ops was like a superb club - if
> you needed a special tool like a hub puller, then someone would have it and
> lend it to you. If you needed advice- it was always available, ditto a
> helping hand with something big like an engine change. I can hardly believe
> that back then I could tune twin carbs, change big and little ends and fit
> piston rings, do a decoke, grind in new valves,  bleed brakes and so on and
> so on.
> Ian Stanton was my usual motor mechanics go-to guy. He was always about to
> build or building a Ginetta - I wonder if he finished it ever?
> Geoff F
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 18:03, Bernard Newnham via Tech1 <
> tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> The thing is - if people knew you owned a Cobra with fuel injection
>> they'd laugh at you. You have to have a V8 with a four port carb otherwise
>> you're a sissy.
>>
>> My problem is that the car has been siting around for some time. It will
>> start - just about - but dies when you press the accelerator. I've cleaned
>> the idle jets with compressed air, but it looks like I have to take it
>> apart now. I can do that but I don't know what to look out for.  One of
>> those things where experience is all. So tomorrow I'll take my Torx
>> screwdriver and undo the eight screws and hope it's something obvious.
>>
>> B
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14/12/2018 17:28, Chris Woolf via Tech1 wrote:
>>
>> One short glance does reveal why the entire concept of the carburettor
>> has been sensibly swept into the history books, along with distributors and
>> the like.
>>
>> While they are splendid pieces of mechanical engineering, the thought
>> that a "carb" can reliably provide an optimum fuel/air mix over a range of
>> revs and loads, is a practical impossibility, even if the ingenuity of
>> designers was wonderful to behold.
>>
>> It is perhaps significant that the devices really only have a useful
>> place (beyond vintage cars) in small fixed speed engines such as lawnmowers
>> and chainsaws.
>>
>> But they were fun to fiddle with...
>>
>> Chris Woolf
>>
>>
>> On 14/12/2018 16:59, Dave Plowman via Tech1 wrote:
>>
>> In article <5df64c82-95b6-398d-60c1-6bba63291fce at gmail.com>
>> <5df64c82-95b6-398d-60c1-6bba63291fce at gmail.com>,
>>     Bernard Newnham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
>> <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Is anyone any good with Edelbrock carburettors?
>>
>> No - but I can do you a deal on MegaSquirt. ;-)
>>
>> The V8 forum is where I'd look - even if not a V8. Do a search on the
>> carb
>> - lots of stuff about setting them up. Goes right over my head.
>>
>> https://www.v8forum.co.uk
>>
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