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Re: Weber Ownership

To: larry.g.unger@lmco.com
Subject: Re: Weber Ownership
From: miker15@juno.com (MICHAEL J ROBSON)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:32:16 EST
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:23:14 -0500 <larry.g.unger@lmco.com> writes:
>Bill Schooler wrote:
>
>>>I lost the bubble on the logic trail here....how much do
>>>you have invested in two different Weber Carbs?  How
>>>much do you think it costs to rebuild a pair of SUs?
>>
>
>Agree ... personally think that you could rebuild a set of
>SUs (including rebushing) for less than the cost of Weber.
>
>Ooooops ... now I gone and done it ... guess this will start
>the SU vs. Weber thread again ... ;^)
>
>Safety Fast! ... larry.g.unger@lmco.com
>                           '61 MGA 1600 MkII

I was tempted to mention this earlier but "fear of the flame" stopped me
- however honesty being the best policy....................
I spent most of last winter rebuilding my 72s SUhif4s - basically
replacing everything, some parts twice, spending hours and hours trying
to tune them then hours more trying to get back to base tune so i could
start again.....and they still were not right.
Doubtless much of this is the ineptitude of the amateur but i also spent
more than a little on pro tunes as well and guess what................
I didnt tot up the actual cost but last summer, a man far wiser than I
pointed out that at about $500 a new set was in real terms a bloody
bargain! - 
the money was spent, installed and tuned in an afternoon and that was
5000 miles ago and i havnt touched them since....

oh - by the way - I dont like webers! - one carb seems like one too few
on a B!

mike robson
69 roadster 
70 BGT
72 roadster

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