Hi Joe
You are bang on regarding Colin Campbell's book; and his another two
"The Sports Car Engine: its tuning and modification" and
"New directions in suspension design: making fast cars faster" are
equally good reads and references.
Cheers
Ed
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Historian, AHCUSA
On 31/10/2012 5:17 PM, Joe and Lenore Armour wrote:
> Millions of European and British older cars are fitted with Webers as
> standard and nobody complains!!!!!!
> Why? Select and fit the right Weber for the job. Some mild engine
> upgrades on small bore motors in UK even look for production Weber
> carbs to fit to their engine. So you grind the holy daylight out of
> the cam, take a 100 thou off the head, slash the weight of the
> flywheel and what, it wont idle? Me thinks this is not the Webers
> fault. Oh, and you want to redline it and race everone in the street
> and surprise, poor fuel consumption!
>
> My Webers start every time. The sound is glorious and everone wants to
> talk to me. What more could a bloke want? I actually think it a great
> success the amount of fuel I can pass through my Webers because it
> gives me the result I wanted --- fun, fun, fun.
>
> BUT, they have to be jetted and set up correctly and that almost means
> talk to Peter Molloy or do dyno time WITH someone who has the
> knowledge and selection of bits to fill all those ports and orifices.
>
> Camshafts, read Colin Campbell's book, 'The Sports Car Engine'. He
> lists 17 different grinds with a comment on their effect. He lists the
> standard and usually aftermarket grinders from the US.
> Then get the Weber book by ( cant remember at the moment, but it has
> a small green cover) and this has some specs for Healeys including
> the float levels. Dont just see the bloke down the road who had one
> on his Trabant that he got from his mate cheap.
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