I'm worried that he never knew the bowls were way off and adjusted jets to
compensate. It wouldn't be like him. But we'll see what happens when I reset
them. The problem is that one is so off that there is no way the screw adjuster
will be enough. I'm going to have to bend it before reassembly. But thinking
about how off it is, I'm also going to make sure it doesn't have any holes in
it.
Also, I'm used to Webers where the jets are easy to swap (and float level is
critical). I'm thinking the Holley is not so easy and he would have had to see
the floats anyway to change the jets.
The ox sensor. I haven't paid too much attention to that other than to note it
is frequently in the red. It has a row of lights going from green to yellow to
red. Can someone tell me under what driving conditions should it be in the
color bands? Like idle, cruising, slowly accelerating and on it? And is it
likely to be accurate or could it be wrong because of a gazillion things?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Winblad <garywinblad@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:05:26
To: tigers@autox.team.net Den<tigers@autox.team.net>
Cc: Jay Laifman<jay.laifman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Holley Rebuild - float bowls
Also,
The "rebuild" level is probably a low level just to get you going. The
instructions are
to always set the level wet after installation.
Float level has a minor(?) influence on mixture. Your dad may have tweaked it
based
on his ox sensor readings?
Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: Theo Smit <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>
To: Jay Laifman <jay.laifman@gmail.com>, tigers@autox.team.net Den
<tigers@autox.team.net> Sent: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:28:46 -0000 (UTC) Subject:
Re: [Tigers] Holley Rebuild - float bowls Too-high floats are usually more
trouble than too-low floats because you can get unintended flooding during
hard cornering or braking. If your needle and seat size is marginal (or if the
fuel pump/fuel line flow capacity is not that good) then having the floats low
can cause starvation on sustained full-throttle due to insufficient fuel
volume in the carb. I'm not familiar with the float setting procedure on the
Holley carbs, but I'm sure there are specific tweaks that can be done,
depending on the float bowl style, to alleviate the common driving concerns.
On many Weber carbs, you had to be a bit careful because the float high limit
was set by flipping the assembly upside down, and this would sometimes lead
people to adjusting the things in the wrong direction. Cheers, Theo >
-----Original Message----- > From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers- > bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jay Laifman > Sent:
June 11, 2013 11:01 PM > To: tigers@autox.team.net Den > Subject: [Tigers]
Holley Rebuild - float bowls > > Also, is there some reason my dad might have
had the floats really > high? The rear one was a little high from the
"parallel to the ground" > that the Holley instructions suggest. But the
front one was really > high - almost to the top. >
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