Thread: These carbies are drivin me crazy!!!

After months of experimentation I found the problem; a cracked intake manifold - only found the problem after swapping the engine though...(
When I swapped my SU's onto the new engine the problem came with them - swapped it back to the single weber and the problems gone away and the car is straightforward to tune.....
Lots of white smoke when hot got me suspicious as the replacement engine was known to be good..
Finally got to drive the car....woohoo!!!

Thanks to all for your suggestions.

Rokkitt

Not sure if at all relevant at all and I apologise if it is not I remember my v8 would fart and miss off the line mainly and in lower revs espically when cold and thought was all sorts of things running lean etc, fuel problems etc etc, one day I talked to a old english machanic who told me to put sae 30 oil in the carb pots (where needle is from memory) s so the needle would lift slower and run slightly richer (instead of sae5? light oil from memory) ran as smooth as a sewing machine after that and no difference in fuel consumption, he said they were hard to get to run right but this helped and it sure did!!!