A lot of older, not fuel injected, japanese cars with carbs sitting in a hot
location, they mount a small electric fan that blows on the carb and manifold
assembly. Why not something like this on the Spridgets with a header that has a
potential overheating of the intake manifold problem?
Paul A
"Mueller, Robert CDR" wrote:
> Dave,
>
> My old '67 Sprite did it years ago, never found the problem. Lately my '74
> has been doing it too, but only when it's hot and I'm in traffic. I read in
> my new Spridget Tuning Book (nicely signed, and good reading too), that
> tubular headers could overheat the intake manifold. I recently coated the
> intake (Oselli Torquemaster) with a ceramic heat coating and it made a big
> difference. It was brush on stuff they were throwing out at the office, and
> while it doesn't exactly go on smooth, it does seem to work pretty darn
> good. I was going to wait and do more testing before I reported it to the
> List, but this might be a clue to your problem. I would guess getting the
> header coated is the real answer, but Jet Hot wants $160 and this little can
> was free, so I thought I'd give it a shot. If the stuff seems to hold up
> for any length of time, I'll figure out where to buy it and report back to
> the list with the info.
>
> Bob
> '74 Midget
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Yealy [mailto:lbc@littlebitcountry.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 10:03 PM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: Problems again
>
> Since the list is super quiet tonight I'll throw a question to the masses.
> Took the wife for a ride in the bugeye today. We covered about 100 miles and
> only had to pull off the road 4 or 5 times because the ignition was acting
> up.
> All was fine as long as I kept the speed 40 mph or lower, but if I ran
> around
> 50 mph for any length of time it would start missing and then die. No, I
> wasn't trying to pull the "ran out gas" trick. If I would leave the car sit
> about 5 mins or so it would start and run ok then sometimes it would take a
> bit longer till it decided it was time to run again. There are new points,
> condenser and coil in it now and it still does the same thing. When it
> starts
> it's problem it acts like it is only running on 2 cylinders. I checked the
> plugs and they look good. It has a new electrical fuel pump (3 to 4.5 lbs)
> with new fuel filters. Any suggestions would be great since I tried
> everything
> I could think of.
>
> Dave
> 60 Bugeye
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