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Re: The reliability of SUs

To: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>, Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>,
Subject: Re: The reliability of SUs
From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:00:25 -0500
Must have twin carbs!

At 02:52 PM 8/13/1999 , Larry Colen wrote:
>It just occured to me that I pulled the SUs off my last motor
>four years ago. They've been sitting around since.  When I was
>about to start it up, I bumped up the idle screws 1 1/2 turns
>then later bumped both down 1/2 or 1 turn.  The car is running
>fine.  After I get a few more miles on the motor, I'm planning
>on dropping the idle back down and resyncing them.
>
>It just occured to me that I pulled the SUs off my last motor
>four years ago. They've been sitting around since.  When I was
>about to start it up, I bumped up the idle screws 1 1/2 turns
>then later bumped both down 1/2 or 1 turn.  The car is running
>fine.  After I get a few more miles on the motor, I'm planning
>on dropping the idle back down and resyncing them.
>
>Su's have a bad rep for unreliablity, but these are going
>a long way to disproving that.
>
>   lrc
>-- 
>"I actually like granola".   -Geoff Miller
>lrc@red4est.com                                 http://www.red4est.com/lrc


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