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Re: Pulsing and surging

To: "Atwell Haines" <karbuff@optonline.net>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>, "CARS spitfire-enthusiast egroups" <spitfire-enthusiast@egroups.com>
Subject: Re: Pulsing and surging
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:58:33 -0500
no EGR or air pump on either car.
just the carbon canisters as breathers.

73 BGT 2" Peco header and exhaust system
otherwise totally stock.

75 Spit. Totally stock except for the dual HS4's
stock exhaust system.

Paul Tegler  wizardz@toad.net        http://www.teglerizer.com


-----Original Message-----
From Atwell Haines <karbuff at optonline.net>
To: Ptegler <ptegler@gouldfo.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>; spitfires@autox.team.net
<spitfires@autox.team.net>; CARS spitfire-enthusiast egroups
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Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: Pulsing and surging


>
>Hello Paul
>
>At 08:23 PM 1/14/2001 -0500, Ptegler wrote:
>
>
>>Driving at steady constant speed I get a pulsing
>>or surging/dropout (what ever you want to call it)
>
>
>
>>description <snipped>
>
>
>
>>This problem appears on more than one marque
>>I own.
>>
>>Anyone have any wild ideas?
>
>That nervous "tic" in your throttle foot maybe...   :)
>
>>past experiences?
>
>I have had that exact same symptom due to the EGR system in a couple cars I
>have owned (I'm talking carb'ed, not fuel injected).  On one car I replaced
>the EGR and it went away, on another I just "disabled" the EGR valve by
>plugging the vacuum line.
>
>>Wonderments?
>
>
>Yeah, what engine/year/carb/induction setups were you running on your
>problem cars? Do they even have EGR systems?
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Atwell Haines
>'79 Spitfire
>Succasunna, NJ USA

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