Guess I started something with my comments on the Strombergs. I regularly
ran the Lotus (1970) in local autox events and don't have any recollection
of starving problems on left or right handers. On the road, and there
are a couple of particularly brutal trans-Sierra roads around here, again
it was never a problem. It could be I am not as agressive as others but I
usually ran in the top three or four positions in my class. Is there a
difference in the float chamber volume between the 150's and 175's??? The
only other carb modification I made (other than changing the needles) was
to reverse the temp compensator blade to keep it closed. The tune was
right on; as measured on an exhaust gas analyzer it was 12.5:1. The
major driveability problem with the Elan was the Prince o' Darkness' wannabe
distributor. That thing was a nightmare!
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From: TR3197@aol.com <TR3197@aol.com>
To: vinttr4@geneseo.net <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; peyote222@email.msn.com
<peyote222@email.msn.com>
Cc: Malaboge@aol.com <Malaboge@aol.com>; emanteno@ibm.net
<emanteno@ibm.net>; fot@autox.team.net <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Fuel System Questions
>Jack, there goes one of our 'speed secrets'. There will a run on Strombergs
>now.
>
>Joe
>
>Baxter Culver wrote:
>>
>> Strombergs as "junk". Years ago, when I was finishing the restoration
of a
>> Lotus Elan which had 175 Strombergs, I attended one of those seminars
held
>> by a former Lotus works racing guy (whose name has been obliterated by a
>> pint or more of good scotch) who said, and I quote, "the fastest racing
>> elan we ever set up had stombergs" "faster than the best we could do
with
>> webers on a works Type 26r" He wasn't selling the secret needles--but
he
>> did tell us which ones seemed to be the best for an upgrade. Damn thing
>> did run well after that, I must say. So! Strombergs as junk?
>>
>
>
>Thanks for the encouragement. There are some disadvantages to
>Strombergs, to be sure, but some of the dire predictions of failure just
>have not happened to me -- for example, I've never had a diphragm break
>in three years of racing.
>
>One of the interesting aspects of Strombergs is that on the limited flow
>bench work I had done, a stock Stromberg 175 showed higher flow than a
>stock SU. A slightly modified Stromberg 175 showed even higher flow.
>Nevertheless, I recognize that the fastest cars do run S.U.'s, and I
>plan to prepare a set of S.U.'s and do a back-to-back comparison on a
>test day just to further feed my curiosity.
>> >
>
>--
>uncle jack
>61 TR4 Rallye Replica Racer
>71 TR6 Street Car named Desire
>
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