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1. 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:04:20 -0600 kcmailp06.birch.net tests=BAYES_00,HTML_50_60,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63; Hi All, I removed the intake from my 1500 yesterday, took 3 hours. The 2 bolts on the under side were Studs with those long threaded nuts you use to couple all thread rod together. About 11/4" long.; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00460.html (7,647 bytes)
2. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:25:28 -0000; You just need to do this job more often. This will have two effects: It will loosen the threads so that the long barrel nuts can be spun off by hand, once you have slackened the first 1/2 turn with; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00463.html (8,507 bytes)
3. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:26:21 -0800 reply-type=original; They are correct. If you think that was difficult, if someone uses standard nuts, they are next to impossible to get. The long nuts at least give you something to get at. A set of midget open end wre; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00464.html (8,963 bytes)
4. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:52:22 EST; yes, it's a real mfer. One more reason to go to a weber and header. Mark M.; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00467.html (7,386 bytes)
5. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:24:38 -0600; Okay, I'm gonna haul out my soapbox for just a bit here: Why do people want to spend $$$ putting a downdraft Weber on a 1500 Midget, when you can contact a breaker's yard in the UK and get a pair of; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00473.html (8,424 bytes)
6. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:49:25 -0800 reply-type=original; Um, because SU's suck... They are never in balance, the throttle shafts wear quickly, the linkages go out of adjustment, the dashpots need oil, as soon as the needles wear, the carb is out of calibra; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00486.html (9,046 bytes)
7. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:01:16 -0500; David, I think that sums it up pretty good :) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ The BETTER not BIGGER Healeys http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00488.html (8,546 bytes)
8. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:17:55 EST; Thank you for doing this for me.; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00493.html (8,146 bytes)
9. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:03:28 -0500; Let's see, you're comapring a pair of messed-up, clapped out SUs to a new Weber. I check the dashpots when I change oil (and they need to be topped up about every 3rd oil change). If the linkage is; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00499.html (10,305 bytes)
10. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:30:53 -0500; And all tailpipes blow! Don 't even go there unless YOU HAVE TRIED BOTH!!! Don't believe what you read about bench flowing air because MY cars run on GAS not Air and a Weber flows a heluva lot more G; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00501.html (9,158 bytes)
11. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:49:35 -0800 reply-type=response; Opening the hood of a British car, or an older Datsun 240Z, or Volvo for that matter, and seeing a nice set of SU's is beautiful, but...I'm not comparing "clapped out" vs. new. My weber was used! I h; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00502.html (8,968 bytes)
12. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:37:56 EST; I don't doubt this, and I'm glad you've had good luck with them, but on average, how many people do you think, as a percentage of SU owners, have had your record? Now compare that to the percentages; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00513.html (8,844 bytes)
13. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:55:13 -0800 (PST); The 2 fastest "Sprites" in VSCDA, Roger Heil and the infamous Dr. J, run 1.5 twin SUs. Mal Fay runs a single 1.75 SU. I could never get my 1.25s to run right, and have a DCOE on mine. Mike Gigante ta; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00514.html (8,894 bytes)
14. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:08:35 -0600 reply-type=original with any abuse report; Ain't it great that we don't have to make all of our Spridgets match each other? Personally, I like my SU carbs. Do I believe that they are giving me everything possible? Heck no. Do I understand the; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00516.html (8,187 bytes)
15. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:39:03 EST; When we were first thinking about a restoration (in 1995) a guy looked at our already heavily modified Bugeye and informed me that Bugeyes didn't have backup lights. Without a beat, I replied that "m; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00521.html (8,011 bytes)
16. Re: 1500 intake question (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:32:51 -0800 (PST); Stock manifold de-burred and matched to the head. No different than the fast guys. == Ron Soave "Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tatt; /html/spridgets/2004-11/msg00539.html (8,379 bytes)

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