>Dave -
>
>True enough the SU look better and perform better. In my case, however,
>they were far from practical. With frequent fluctuations in
>temperatures, the SU's were impossible to keep in tune.
>
>Case in point: When I drove back home for Christmas, I had the top down
>at 11 pm. The temperature was a balmy 68 degrees. When I left 2 days
>later, the temp had nose-dived into the 30's. When I got on the highway,
>I had to pull out the choke to keep the mixture rich enough to go 65mph
>(of course I stopped and fixed he problem at the next exit...).
>
>Perhaps the Weber won't let me down. Even if I never have to touch it, I
>still have plenty left to work on to keep the "grease under the
>fingernail" look.
>
>Thomas James Pokrefke, III
>1970 MGB (relax all...the wire wheels stayed silver)
>thomas_pokrefke@juno.com
>http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~pokrefke
>
>p.s. -- FWIW - I have the SU's in a box in the trunk in case of Weber
>failure
Now THAT is the mark of a true LBC enthusiast. Only someone who has been
there and done that would carry spare carburetors. For those of you who
are present or former members of the world wide Boy Scout movement, let us
not forget that the founder - Robert Baden Powell - was an Englishman. I
have lived by the scout motto, BE PREPARED, all my life. Perhaps this is
why British cars are the way they are.
John McEwen
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