yes we got some very nice and well neaded rain yesterday, top is still not
up. My car always seemed to pull until I ran out of guts and had to
shift, but it never seemed to mind.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'71 BGT ever so slowly turning into a V8
'63 Buick 215
"I sure wish I had a racer's budget, or are the racers just better at
explaining expenses to the wife?"
-Unknown
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Andrew B. Lundgren wrote:
> Two B engines, one a '67(68?) the other a '77, they both seem to pass the
>power peak at the same point as yours. In 1st it will climb up climb up
>higher, but it feels like it is past the top of the curve...
>
> (I work about 15min from boulder, and got rained on big time yesterday, but
>the top was up!)
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, James Nazarian Jr wrote:
>
> > I think this is a silly question, but I haven't had much to say lately so
> > I think I'll burn up some bandwidth. Recently I replaced my resonator,
> > and as some may remember my car has only a resonator, no muffler; well, it
> > was a bit too loud so I put a slip in silencer in it to appease the noise
> > police. Between the combination of the new exhaust creation and the
> > leaning out of my mixture (finally tuned to altitude after only three
> > years) I run out of steam at about 5500 RPM. The car has always loved to
> > rev and it was tuned perfectly to sea level. I am now at about 6000' and
> > I took 6 (I think) flats out of the jets. The tuning using the engine
> > speed change when depressing the plunger on opposite carb procedure has
> > never worked so I more or less blindly leaned the mixture out. This has
> > solved my hot start/idle problems and has doubled my gas mileage but I
> > think I may have gone a bit too far. I don't feel like the engine is
> > being choked by a restrictive exhaust, because I experienced that during
> > my bastardization of the exhaust.
> >
> > Is it reasonable to assume that if the mixture is too lean the car will
> > not be able to rev at high RPM, and will lack all power at high RPM?
> >
> > James Nazarian
> > '71 B roadster
> > '71 BGT ever so slowly turning into a V8
> > '63 Buick 215
> >
> > "I sure wish I had a racer's budget, or are the racers just better at
> > explaining expenses to the wife?"
> > -Unknown
> >
> >
>
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