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Re: lcb & dellorto

To: millerls@ado13.com
Subject: Re: lcb & dellorto
From: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:41:49 GMT
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Reply-to: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Hi Larry...and everyone else,
I just pulled #1 &#2 spark plugs and they have a matt brown deposit/coloring 
to them. I was expecting a grey color if mixture is correct. Am I running 
lean? There was no carbon deposited so it's not rich...they are very thinly 
coated with the brown color.
Andy


>From: "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
>Reply-To: "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
>To: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: lcb & dellorto
>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:18:32 -0800
>
>Congrats Andy,
>
>It was probably a combination of the carb and extractor. The induction
>sounds of a Weber/Dellorto is what I like most about the carbs.
>
>Larry Miller
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>
>To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 3:44 AM
>Subject: lcb & dellorto
>
>
> >
> > Greetings
> > I don't know whether its the new extractors or the change in 
>carburetion,
> > but I have loads more low to mid range power/torque and a much nicer 
>array
> > of sound effects...I should have changed one at a time so I knew whats
> > responsible for the gains. It revved higher (6500rpm) than ever since
> > rebuilding it, and with seeming ease/enthusiasm. It would have kept on
>going
> > had I not backed off.
> > I'm having none of the starting problems that my brother experienced 
>with
> > the dellorto last time he used it..maybe my dismantling all the bits to
> > compare them to vizard specs de-gummed it. It started straight away, 
>with
>no
> > choke...mind you the choke sounds excellent.
> > Did a few miles today (30-40) so I'll pull a plug or two tomorrow and 
>see
> > what they reveal about the mixture.
> > Finally it sounds and goes like a sportscar!
> > Andy
> >
> >
>
>
>


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