- 1. Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:53:35 -0400
- Hi listers, I'm just about to give up & sell my beautiful 79 midget. Was having running/idle/choke problems with the original ZS + waterchoke and was convinced by a mechanic that a Weber conversion +
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00105.html (7,521 bytes)
- 2. Re: Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:48:53 EDT
- I recently went through this. First a couple questions: is it a DGV (downdraft) or sidedraft setup (does it suck air in from the top or sideways)? do you know what jets are in it? there are idle jets
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00111.html (7,834 bytes)
- 3. Re: Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:50:29 EDT
- PS where are you and how much do you want for it? if you're near me and are so frustrated you want rid of it cheap then my diagnosis is it's hopeless, sell it to me before it drives you crazy. (just
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00112.html (6,812 bytes)
- 4. Re: Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:24:50 -0400
- Cap'n Bob knows a HECK of a lot more about spridgets than me so I'm not officially disagreeing but I'd just like to throw in that, on my 1500, I'm running the non-heated manifold and my car goes like
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00121.html (7,195 bytes)
- 5. Re: Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:51:43 -0400
- Is the timing set correctly? Could it be too retarded or maybe the dizzy has the wrong advance curve. Check the timing, I think on a UK spec car it is supposed to be 10 degrees BTC instead of 2 degre
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00130.html (8,267 bytes)
- 6. Re: Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:48:12 EDT
- These are good points, Skipper. And also that, since he changed his carb because his car didn't run well, he might have had a non carb related problem before that's still screwing things up. Here's h
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00139.html (8,101 bytes)
- 7. Fwd: Midget woes (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:24:48 EDT
- Cap'n Bob pointed out that I should have answered his timing question for the list to see instead of directly. Good point, here it is: 16 btc at 900 - 1,000 rpm after installing the DGV Hope it helps
- /html/spridgets/2004-09/msg00177.html (9,327 bytes)
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