> Anyway, for the past year I've been dying to buy a $500 'mercun clunker
> and paint it flat house paint white with a green stripe and paint in black
>
> "GENERIC BRAND CAR"
>
> on the side.
I'd been sorely tempted to paint my next race car white and use blue
letters (the color of choice for generic products where I grew up --
see cans of FOOD and DRINK in "Repo Man" for reference) that read
RACE CAR on the side.
Come to think of it, the ZX is white... (Okay, here's a chance to see
if anyone else knows HIC... should I then put HL RZ on my license plate? :-)
> Also I'd like to cut the top of with a chainsaw to have a permanent
> 'soft top'.
Not a chain saw, a SawzAll. Had a friend who did this to a big late-
Sixties Chrysler Imperial. Phenomenal.
> It has suggested to me that the excessive gas guzzlin' may be vacuum leak.
> How may one go about testing the vacuum system in the car???
Marcus and I have been troubleshooting other parts of his system off-line,
and I just posted a description of how to jury-rig a PCV valve on dual SU
equipped M.G.s. When that comes back around to me I'll repost the instructions
part as gen. info. for one and all, but the troubleshooting part is as
follows:
Get a can of Carburetor Spray-Klene (or however they spell the Brand Name).
Spray this, through the fine nozzle, around the carbs carefully, listening
for where or whether the car wants to die -- CS-K is noncombustible and it
will make your engine hiccup audibly. Or, given that we have already
determined that your mechanic is mentally unsuited to teach falling out
of a tree to paralyzed chipmunks, hook up the distributor vacuum advance.
I'll bet you a Stan's Donut on your next trip out here (or ten net.points
if you don't make it, and ask Al Costich what they're worth! :-) that He
Who Is The Reason Matchbooks Say "Close Cover Before Striking" forgot to
reconnect the vacuum advance and you're sucking air in through that tube,
or its orifice on the intake somewhere.
(Yeah, I know, the guy probably has six wives and eight kids and gives all
his used underwear to the Salvation Army, but from what Marcus tells me,
this guy knows so little about SUs that he probably misspelled their name
on the work order.)
--Scott
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