Look up House of Ghia. That use to be “the” place for everything Ghia. Not sure that’s still the case, but the guy that founded it (who has since passed on) was a major league fanatic about them and probably forgot more than anyone else ever knew.
-D > On May 23, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > You may recall I picked up a Karmann Ghia last November. Not wanting to > subject it to any salt or winter it has been in the garage since then. I > got it out today and it started up and ran nicely. It ran pretty rough > in the driveway the few times I tried to run it during last winter so I > figured I'd need to clean out the carbs and give it a general tune up. > > However it is running much better now. I added about 5g of fresh gas and > half a bottle of Techron but not sure that really made a difference. > > It has a dual carb setup with Webers and I took a closer look and they > don't seem to have any choke mechanism at all. So that would explain the > rough running in the cold. I guess the car was set up as a summer > driver. Not sure if such a thing is commonplace? > > I found in the documentation that with the rebuilt the prior > owner installed has a 9:1 compression ratio. So I guess I should > probably buy at least mid-grade gas for it? Or premium? > > I also discovered some rust on the passenger side rear floorpan. Not > catastrophic but probably need to replace about a square foot of it. A > project for next winter. The rest of the car seems solid. > > Need to track down an extra wheel for a spare tire, as that is > missing. Anyone know of a good Aircooled email list? > > Allan > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
