Mick, your story is inspring. I might look into making a heat shield today!
zac ----- Original Message ----- From: mick ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: weber heat shield Part 2 > Today I made up and fitted the heat shield and took the car for a run up the > motorway for a couple of hours. Some very interesting first impressions... > 1. The carbs are cool to the touch after an hour on the freeway....normally > quite hot > 2. Fitting the brackets to the underneath exhaust studs is a real pain!!!!! > 3. The motor seemed really dead ie down on power I got blown off by a > porker 924!!! > 4 Fuel consumption was noticeably way down. I reckon a 1/3 less than > normal! > Questions > If the carbs were running significantly cooler, could this upset the > jetting? What sort of change might u expect ie richer or leaner? Would it > affect low rev range or high rev range? > Might it run leaner is the question I guess? > Relevent settings > twin 45dcoe > Venturi 36 > Main Jet 150 > Air correction jet 150 > Emulsion Tube F2 > Idle Jet 45 F9 > Pump Jet 40 > Plugs BP6EY > Std B/B electronic dissy - no vac advance > 15 BTDC > 76 degree cam > Big valves etc etc > Cheers > Mick > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
