In a message dated 06/03/02 3:45:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
> Lets add to that that DCOEs were developed for racing
> applications and suffer at low rpms because they are designed
> and tuned only for the top end. They are a poor choice for a
> daily driver unless you drive in 'binary mode' like my rally co-
> driver. That is, either full throttle or full brake!
>
Not so, grasshopper!
Webers were designed for both road and racing use, on Italian cars. The sad
fact is that when you buy a new one, it comes jetted for some standard
application - usually a Fiat or Alfa, and the people that buy them for MGs or
what have you, don't have clue #1 about rejetting them properly, nor setting
them up and tuning them.
If they are set up right (and that's a HUGE 'if'), they can be quite
flexible. My Lamborghini, which uses 6 - 40 DCOEs will pull from 1000 rpm in
5th gear all the way up to a theoretical 165 mph, smoothly, if you put the
pedal to the floor at 1000.
Both of my MG powered race cars also use twin Webers, but I have spent a LOT
of time getting them right, and they both have 4 intake ports (the TVR - for
sale, BTW, guys - uses an HRG crossflow head, and the MGA is a Twincam).
I agree completely that a pair of SUs - 1.5" for stock, or 1.75" for rorty
action, are much better than any poorly tuned Weber. The DGV is a waste of
space, used mostly by people taken in by the ads of the vendors that sell
them, or influenced by the bragging rights that saying they have a Weber
gives them.
Bill
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