Tom, looking at the problem from what you said it sounds like a carburation
problem to me. After you changed your jets you experienced the problem,
but you reinstalled the original jets to try and solve the problem, That
lets us assume that that is not the problem. Well there is one other thing
that you did, you adjusted the floats. I do beleive this is where your
problem lies. I am not an expert on carbs but it sounds like your floats
may be too low causing you to get just enough fuel at idle but no where
near enough at higher rpms. I would check this out and try readjusting them.
Patrick Bowen
'79 Spit
At 07:54 PM 6/9/98 EDT, GT6in@aol.com wrote:
> I've tried everything, and I need help on my poorly running GT6+. I
recently
>acquired grose jets with the vision of my GT6 running better. Replacing the
>jets gave me a chance to also check that my float levels were correct, as the
>car was running VERY rich. So I replaced the jets, readjusted the float
>levels to 18mm. Now my problem: The car runs fine at idle producing an even
>bellow from the exaust sorta that V8 sound. When there is a load put on the
>engine, ie. just driving around the block; the engine feels like it is
>misfiring heavily. When I put the pedal to the floor from about 1300 RPM the
>engine strains to get to 3000 RPM. I have replaced the condensor, points,
and
>the rotor and cap are less than a year old and they look fine. I have also
>removed the grose jets and reinstalled the original jets to possibly cure the
>problem. To no avail. My question is this, is it possible that the coil
>could be failing to put out the required spark power when under load? To me
>this sounds like an ignition problem, but could the carbs be the culprit(I am
>running late model Mk1 carbs on it)? Excuse me for my ignorance, but this is
>my first prodject car and I don't have expirence to back me up. But I do
have
>yours. If all else fails I guess I could visit the mechanic, not willingly
>though.
>TIA
>Tom
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