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Re: Urgent - gotta find an air cleaner!

To: "alpines@autox.team.net" <alpines@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Urgent - gotta find an air cleaner!
From: Paul Heuer <paul.heuer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:55:29 +0930
A case in point:
The S3 ST runs 'bird catcher' gauze filters.
The S3 GT runs an air-box and remote cannister aircleaner (paper)

The GT runs leaner carb jets than the ST.

Cheers,
Paul.
S3 ST, twin Zeniths with bird catchers :-)

>Jerome,
>    That might work, but I question whether any additional restriction of air 
>wouldn't make the mixture go extra rich at idle and low speeds.  Years ago, I 
>built an air-box and forced air to my twin Zeniths thru heater-blower tubing 
>from the front grill of my Minx 6 (Rapier 2 alloy head engine), and I fouled 
>the plugs immediately.  When (finally) running at speed, there was a definate 
>improvement in performance...idling, it again fouled the plugs to a 
>standstill.
>Jim Leach   PTC  Seattle

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