We took the GT6 out for another excursion today! It was the 2nd long run of the year, and the first long run after putting the gearbox back in in pursuit of the chirping TO bearing. Departed the suburbs west of Boston and headed up to Rye Beach for a late picnic lunch. Don't know the distance because the odomoter is still sound asleep...
The weather was cool and overcast but that made no difference to either us or the car. The big 6 (okay, medium 6) purred (okay, roared) the whole time. Sometimes we were out on I95, other times puttering along on 1A. Didn't make any difference! Life is good. There are still two things I'd like to improve. The exhaust smells too much like unburned hydrocarbons, and leaves us smelling like them too after a while. And the engine roars inside the car with a modertely mind-numbing 150 Hz hum, rpm-dependent, of course. Yesterday I pushed the timing up 2 degrees to see what would happen. It seems like the throttle response is better and the engine launches from a standstill more smoothly, requiring less clutch slip. The exhaust smell seems to have decreased. But the roaring went from a narrow band 2000-3000 rpms to all the tach over whenever the throttles are opened even a bit over coasting. (It's strange, but the sound doesn't seem to bother my dear spouse, though it sure bothers me.) The engine doesn't ping except under full throttle in 4th gear and then only moderately. Anyway, I'm open to suggestions. Are the exhaust smell and sound indicative of anything? More advance? Less? Or carb tweaks? It has two SU's, not ZS's. I'd try leaner except that when I was first getting them set up they always seemed to be running too lean. The good news is that the car ran very well, and the gearbox and clutch behaved. The dear spouse is now convinced that this is the car we should be using for some of our weekend camping trips up the the White Mountains this summer, and Acadia Natl. Park this fall! In fact, she'd much rather go in the GT6 than in our Caravan. Too bad the GT6 can't carry a canoe. That would be too much of a good thing! -- Jim Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
