[Healeys] [OT] Goblin Works

[Kees Oudesluijs]

Would they have been Stromberg 150CD or 175CD carburettors as used by 
most USA spec UK cars like Jensen-Healey, TR5/6, some older big 
Triumphs, Volvo's and Saab,s They do have a much wider body which is 
much lower and have a longer neck. The working principle is the same as 
the SU's.

They also could have been the Japanese Mikuni's which are similar.

The Italian Weber or DellOrto's would have been the better choice. These 
are/were widely used in most European cars to soup them up as they are 
easier to fine tune instead of messing about with endless reprofiling 
needles and adjusting springs in SU's and Strombergs plus you have two 
barrels in each carb so it is easier to provide each cylinder with its 
own barrel..

Kees Oudesluijs



Op 15-8-2019 om 05:19 schreef Bob Spidell:
> Tonight I caught the season premier of 'Goblin Works' on Motortrend 
> Channel.  If you haven't seen it, this is an English version of the 
> ubiquitous American show about car modders.  In contrast to the 
> American shows, which feature an endless stream of muscle cars and 
> trucks being slammed, chopped, airbagged, fitted with monstrous and 
> hideous chrome wheels,  rubber-band tires, LS engines and garish paint 
> jobs*, this show features some British cars and an occasional American 
> or other 'foreign' car (and eschews the constant silly games and 
> grab-assing common on the American shows).  Anyway, tonight they 
> thoroughly and, I think tastefully, modded a 1275 Austin Mini.  They 
> pulled the stock engine for a core for a 'built' engine and I'm 
> thinking: "Here we go, EFI or at least a couple Webers" but, no, the 
> built engine came with what appeared to be a pair of SU carbs!  They 
> were pretty large, not quite HD8-size, and had longer 'necks' on the 
> vacuum/piston chambers; anyone know what kind/size SUs these might 
> have been?  I've seen photos of similar carbs on other Brit cars. Oh, 
> yeah, the Mini engine dyno'd at 115 BHP--stock was around 50--so who 
> says SUs don't make power (I'm still pissed at Ant Anstead for calling 
> them 'garbage')?
>
> * I watch these shows for the 5 minutes of interesting and informative 
> fabrication, welding and engine building in 55 minutes of grabassery, 
> silly games and outright corniness.
>
> Bob
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