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Re: SU Nomenclature.

To: <WSpohn4@aol.com>, <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: SU Nomenclature.
From: "Mike Lishego" <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:33:42 -0500


>Actually, although our friends at Skinners Union must have had some reason
for
>picking the series numbers, H, HS, HD, etc. I have never seen any evidence
of
>what it might have been (other than the numeric part which is of course,
the
>size, in 1/8" increments above 1").
>There were also several different pre-war series with other designations,
as
>well as the post-war DU6 carbs( I played around with these  for a bit.)


I don't know about the HS series carbs, but I remember reading somewhere
that the HIF stood for Horizontally Integrated Float, as the HIF has the
integrated float chamber while the HS has it separate...

Michael S. Lishego
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/3706/



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