[Fot] SU Rebuilder

[Bill Tobin]

 I put a set of Paltech's carbs on my car last spring and they work very 
well. Cost was reasonable. His work is like Richard Good's: Excellent!
NFI
Bill----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Halkias" <atr6racer at hotmail.com>
To: "davehogye" <dlhogye at comcast.net>; "Todd Redmond" 
<alfetta95 at optonline.net>
Cc: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] SU Rebuilder


> And Paltech also does a wonderful Hitachi SU conversion for TR's! He even
> handles Webers. All of his work comes out looking and working better than 
> new.
> I have used him for two years and probably have had over a dozen sets of 
> carbs
> and conversions done with zero problems.
>
> Sam
>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:00:40 +0000
>> From: dlhogye at comcast.net
>> To: alfetta95 at optonline.net
>> CC: FOT at autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Fot] SU Rebuilder
>>
>> Joe Curto did my carbs and missed a couple things. I had meticulously
> cleaned 3 disassembled carbs and sent them to Joe to build a set with the 
> best
> parts between them.
>> While tuning I found that the dampers didn't match, one had a long shaft 
>> and
> one short. I also found that one of the pistons was machined to a larger
> diameter where the damper fits and one of the carbs, after about 300 miles 
> of
> use, started to leak fuel from the main jet seal.
>> The problem might be that Joe doesn't actually do the work, but I'm not 
>> sure
> about that. In any event, details were missed. Oh, Joe did send a nice SU
> coffee mug with the carbs, but unfortunately it was poorly packaged and 
> the
> handle was broken off during shipping.
>>
>>
>> I had communicated with Paltech before I send mine to Curto. They sure
> seemed to be on their game and detail oriented. Their polishing is unique.
> Their price is, if I remember correctly, less than Curto, but not by much.
> Both are very reasonably priced and about half to 1/3rd the cost of a new 
> set
> of SUs, depending on HS6s or H6s. The difference in price was probably 
> about
> the cost of a coffee mug.
>>
>>
>> I checked Ray Marty's website and I think it's a fair bet that Ray will
> actually be doing the work and to a quality level. One photo on his 
> website
> shows him milling the carb to manifold gasket surface... Really? The 
> photos
> remind me of a very detail oriented, shall I say completely annal 
> retentive
> machinist friend of mine.
>>
>>
>> Dave H.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Todd Redmond" <alfetta95 at optonline.net>
>> To: "FOT at autox.team.net FOT at autox.team.net" <FOT at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:46:07 PM
>> Subject: [Fot] SU Rebuilder
>>
>> FoT,
>>
>>
>> Just finished my first tractor engine build. I'll post a pic on the FoT
>> Facebook page.
>>
>>
>> Looking for someone to rebuild the SU's. B Who is B recommended? B 
>> British
>> Classic Motors are away until end of February. B I could wait until then.
>> B Was just checking on others.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Todd Redmond
>> TS #29341
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