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Re: Midget Fuel System

To: Mark Endicott <endicott@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Midget Fuel System
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:36:36 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Mark Endicott wrote:

> 70 Midget 1275 with HS2 and standard ignition.  It does have Grose Jets

> The problem:
> 
> The car starts and runs smooth at idle, however when I "blip" the
> throtle it "sputters" and sometimes wants to backfire through the carbs.
> When it is allowed to warm up to normal (170 Deg Water temp) it runs
> much better.  Still, in low gear (under load) it "coughs" before it
> goes. Once at speed it runs fine and pulls strong in the higher gears
> and at higher RPM.

That's what my bugeye does when I turn off the choke too soon.  I think
you are either running a little lean, a little cold, or both.  I would
replace the thermostat with a 180 degree thermostat.  If the problem is
still there, make the carbs richer by a flat or two and see if the
problem is not resolved. 

   W. R. Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                  Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                  gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8629


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