Time to get the car fixed up. Frank is restoring cars (multiple) in the time it takes me to think though a problem. Car: 1978 Midget with a 1500, Twin HS4s, 9:1 pistons (0.30 over), shaved ported and
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:41:43 GMT j1CJeta1008294
....the waxjets do this. They lean out the mix when hot running. It takes the "disc" or whatever type of temp. compensator is used a while to "cool off" and restore the carb to normal mixture parame
Take some hose that fits on the nipples to your local home improvement or hardware store and find a piece of copper tubing that has a 90 degree bend in it that fits the hose. Simply put a piece of ho
This was a good suggestion, so I forward it to the list in case anyone else needed something similar. Rather than the roofing shingle, I bought a flexible pad from the local branch of a home improvem
Is the overheating problem only when stopped? I have the same problem and have not solved it yet. Last summer it was so hot under the hood I could not touch anything without burning myself. My car ha
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:55:10 GMT j1DFsMWm028142
"Hot spot" award definitely goes hands down to the catalytic converter. Horrible "placing" of this item but, they really had no other place to put it. Put this together with "uncoated" headers, and y
IIRC, the waxstat jets had a reputation for being troublesome. You can convert the jets from waxstat to regular .090 jets very simply. You just need the new jets and the linkage, which is just a smal