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monterey historics
Madmen Will Put Any Number Of Weber Carbs On Any Engine You Want
We saw some cool Weber carburetor setups at last year's Monterey Historics, but the guys at the Pierce Manifolds booth have upped the Weber ante with their insane custom intakes. You want to put eight two-barrel Webers on your Chevy 348? No problemo- they can pull that manifold right off the shelf for you! How about a GMC Twin Six with 24 Webers? Yeah, we're drooling. [Pierce Manifolds]
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and you will know us by the trail of parts
Rebuild Your Carburetor
Back in the days of carbureted and plentiful used Plymouth Satellites, B-52's frontman Fred sang of the devil in his car. Beehive sporting singer Kate did Fred one better by wailing that she had the devil in her CAR-buretor! Having Beelzebub in the float bowl and demons clogging the jets is not a good thing at all. A carburetor rebuild can help exorcise evil spirits. More »
1:30 PM on Fri Aug 31 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
3,198 views, 24 commentsLatest by zxasqw12: Reminds me of a carb-related Henny Youngman riff... I came home from work. My wife met me at the door. She said, more »
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pebble beach concours
Welcome To Carburetor Hell!
We've had a few multiple-carb cars, but they've always been the twin-pot variety. It can be a real pain synchronizing a pair of balky carbs, and of course you've got twice the floats to sink, twice the fittings to leak, etc. But we can only look on with a mixture of horror and awe at a Ferrari crew futzing with six of the things before a race at Laguna Seca. -
pebble beach concours
Weber-o-Rama at Laguna Seca
We'll have some Engine Porn for y'all later on, courtesy of the historic racers at Laguna Seca this weekend, but first we though you might enjoy looking at some highly pleasing Weber carburetor installations from back in The Day. We got us a pair-o-Ferraris, a Lotus 11, and a Corvette, each huffing Weber-style. -
good carbs, bad carbs
Some Motorcycle With That Starlet?
My Starlet was recently selected at random by the punch card driven vacuum tube powered California DMV computer for a yearly smog chek. The usual routine is every two years. The 1300cc engine passed after three trips to the rollers and countless hours of rebuilding and tuning the inherently evil downdraft Aisin carburetor. The solution was to build a 16.5 degree measuring template out of cardboard to achieve required stop angle on the size-of-a-dime main throttle blade. The final solution may be something else entirely. Some enterprising hoon on the KP61.net forum has planted the idea of transplanting a row of sidedraft motorcycle carbies in place of the downdraft stocker. All that's required is an electric fuel pump, hand crafted intake adapter, jetting, some tuning, linkage fabrication, and so on. Easy, right?
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novelty
ThermoQuad!
The Carter ThermoQuad originally came bolted to Mopar V-8 mills as a the hot factory setup. The theory was simple. At light throttle the ThermoQuad huffed air through a relatively small set of primary bores. Application of lead foot prompted the much larger secondary bores to open, giving the ThermoQuad its unique sound at wide open throttle, and supplying the engine with plenty of air and fuel. Problems arose when the mostly-the-same ThermoQuad was pressed into the '70s and onto emissions engine service. Featuring a center section made ofspace age polymersprone to warping phenolic resins, the Thermoquad had issues with the underhood heat from the scads of smog prevention equipment bolted to the engine. The last of the Thermoquads was an aftermarket affair known as the SuperQuad! Some swear by the carburetor as an unsung performer. Others just swear at the carburetor. More »
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