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Re: Marina carb on MGB

To: Mowog 1 <Mowog1@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Marina carb on MGB
From: Jason Sawyer <jason.sawyer@ibm.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:14:30 -0700

Mowog 1 wrote:

> Yo chaps!
>
> I have run an Austin Marina HIF 6 on my '78 MGB since 1993. It is truly an
> easy conversion. Bolt it on...run a manual choke....change the thottle
> cable....put a pancake filter on it.
>
> It has given me absolutely NO problems in 5 years. As to performance...you
> still only have one carburettor.....read between the lines. (In driving out to
> Lake Tahoe in 1995 through the Rocky Mountains at 13k feet....it was 30 mph up
> hill.....90 mph down hill......rather degrading to be passed by a
> Winnebago!....At least I had a carburetted MGB V8 running with me  that was
> experiencing the same problems due to his running too rich....and a 1974-1/2
> MGB dual carb with only a little more power than I at elevation!)
>

Why not pull over and re-tune the carb? Worst case you would have to re jet to
compensate for for the thin mountain air.

> I wish I would have gotten a Marina manifold rather than utilizing the combo
> MGB manifold...I think performance would have been a little better. I still
> have the outer body of a catalytic converter (no guts) running into a Falcon
> SS exhaust system. The car runs well at all speeds....but is no "record maker"
> if you know what I mean. I run a BBQ needle in the carb.
>
> The HIF 6 is a GREAT conversation piece at car shows....("What the....that
> ain't no Stromberg!") and I no longer worry about a water choke!
>
> Cheers!
>
> rick ingram
> namgbr #0-134
> amgcr #985



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