IIRC it's 10:1 (or is it after 10:1?) at which point you need higher grade gas but I could be remembering wrong... Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 6:37 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