The maintenance has been very little. These are quality carbs. When I put
them on the car in 1987, I was driving the car daily. The Stombergs were
sucking air from the throttle shafts. The carb swap, as you might expect,
was remarkable. Others who've driven my car like the throttle response, and
I autocrossed the car for several years without any problems. You can go
from full-on to full-off over and over and over again.
My car has the Crane ignition, 2 pc. header, elect. fan. Everything under
the valve cover is stock.
The benefits as I see them for this conversion are: drivability,
reliability and throttle response. The criticisms I have are with the
gooseneck adaptors. They need to be port matched to the stock manifold carb
openings, IMHO. I did this about three years ago and did notice a
difference.
These are a great alternative to stock. The ultimate, however, is Weber
DCOEs. A TR250 I know of with a cam'd engine and DCOEs ran away from me at
a stoplight like I was still parked. Very cool!
HTH, Kevin
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>From: LU110JATC@aol.com
>To: <oconnor@fuse.net>
>Subject: Re: weber dgv carbs
>Date: Thu, Oct 26, 2000, 4:19 PM
>
> Hi Kevin, Thankyou for the timely response. I recently had my engine
> rebuilt. Pistons are +.020 over, mild street cam and the heads shaved to
> 9.50:1. Exhaust header was installed new following the rebuild. Problem is
> the carbs are in dire need of a rebuild and the lackluster performance after
> the rebuid leads me to beleave there's a better alternative in obtaining
> added performance than the Strombergs are willing to give. Please give me
> your opinions good or bad based on the experience with the Weber conversion.
> Specifically conc performance and maintainence.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Kendle
> 72 tr6
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