Re: Urgent - gotta find an air cleaner!

From: Paul Heuer (paul.heuer(at)dsto.defence.gov.au)
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 00:25:29 CDT


A case in point:
The S3 ST runs 'bird catcher' gauze filters.
The S3 GT runs an air-box and remote cannister aircleaner (paper)

The GT runs leaner carb jets than the ST.

Cheers,
Paul.
S3 ST, twin Zeniths with bird catchers :-)

>Jerome,
> That might work, but I question whether any additional restriction of air
>wouldn't make the mixture go extra rich at idle and low speeds. Years ago, I
>built an air-box and forced air to my twin Zeniths thru heater-blower tubing
>from the front grill of my Minx 6 (Rapier 2 alloy head engine), and I fouled
>the plugs immediately. When (finally) running at speed, there was a definate
>improvement in performance...idling, it again fouled the plugs to a
>standstill.
>Jim Leach PTC Seattle



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