Andi

Must admit Robin, hadnt seen any o rings when i cleaned them. All the floats seemed at the same level. Ill whip em off and have a closer look and compare them with the other set i have. Cheers

I meant drill the main jets. I take it you dont have to drill the idle jets either? Also couldnt really see how to adjust the floats.

Having got a set of a cheap carbs sold for spares due to the idle screw housing snapped off. (fixed a nut and bolt in place with jb weld) Ive stripped and cleaned them and drilled 1.65mm main jets. The car started up and ran ok but petrol was weeing out of this brass hole (see picture). Ive got duplicate carbs drilled to 1.8mm and dont have this problem. I have a R1 fuel pump. Anyone got any ideas before I redrill the jets? Thanks

I dont use a heater but have just done some re-plumbing. It was blanked off under the inlet manifold, I put rubber pipe into it and covered that with cover chrome (from car builder solutions) then got some chrome radiator pipe from the local plumbing suppliers. It used to run at 86-88 deg but has dropped to 82 so its slightly better. Andi

Cheers Mitch. Getting the float bowls off has been a mission with 9 of the 12 screws being seized and spinning out in the middle. But i dremeled two flat sides to each screw and used grips to free them. Think ill need to source some hex bolts out

I have got a cheap set of carbs for spares which I want to play around with. I take it the red arrow is the main jet that gets drilled out.? Im going to try 1.65mm to start with Andi

I have never impulse bought alcohol from a supermarket because I couldnt sit around for the time it takes to chill them.

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No idea if these are any good but heres a link http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29407...102861115PKVNUZ http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=99104

Does anyone know these? I have one that works fine apart from the rev needle does not work properly. It stays dormant most of the time apart from the odd sporadic flutter. From what I can gather there is a pick up wire from number 1 ht lead where it takes its reading, which I have in place but no joy. Andi

I have the breather pipe land on the door mat today, it does seem a serious bore and will probably just fit into the rubber on the oil seperator (see attched borrowed pic from an old rhocar post) Or does the whole of that cylinder/seperater have to come out? There doesnt seem to be anything in the hole but it it does seem to go right into the crankcase, just down maybe an inch. Thanks

Quite right Mitch, they are ZX6`s after all Doh!

Aaah the tiny o rings. More than familiar with those after rebuilding the carbs and finding one on the bench grr. Let me know if this works Robin.

Cheers Dan, Ive probably got about 2" and as Chris said I wish they sold these things with a scale. Anyway I ordered it off ebay this morning. If that dont work ill try one of the Burton elbows. Its the waiting game that gets on my tips. Thanks for all the help.

Put the new honda bike carbs on and they ran ok apart from they needed quite high revs to pull off at say 30-40 in 4th. This doesnt happen when not in gear. Today i stripped them all down, checked and cleaned everything with carb cleaner, blew out the jets, checked the diaphrams and slide movements. They seemed pretty clean anyway but after doing it the car was flying, but the same acceleration pick up problem is there. Im wondering if richening them up would help, On my previous Yam carbs I believe you dropped the circlip down a notch on the needle to do this however I cant see how to do this on the new ones. Thanks in advance.

Cheers Chris. I take it that I could buy one of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cosworth-Sierra-Esco...id=p3286.c0.m14 and attach a pipe it would just push in?

Hi all, I used to have a heavy duty braided breather pipe hanging out of the engine which I was about to put a catch tank on for. It was there yesterday but after a blast in todays tempting weather, it appears to have dropped off. All that is left is a rubber bung and there is slight spray underneath the bike carbs. Where could I get one from and how is it fitted. All I can see is a hole in the rubber with no clear way of attaching anything. When I looked in the Haynes manual it seems that the pipe (albeit a different sort of pipe) is just pushed in. Regards Andi

If you use sealant, just a thin smear both sides, don't go mad with it Thanks for that, I was a bit errm liberal with it. Plus the other bolts I was using was a tad too long Its all on now and working. Havnt connected an air filter yet, and at high revs a fine mist of fuel appears from the carb trumpets but it did that before and when i fitted the socks, there was no petrol smell on hard acceleration. Hopefully this is ok. Gonna balance the carbs up tomorrow and have a tweak, but otherwise happy as a happy one. Thanks

Fireblade Mitch> Just managed to get a gasket from Panjani Spares of Leicester (good old English name) So have another bash tomorrow.

My mechanical inferiority has sunk to new depths. Thought I`d done a good job of swapping manifolds and revamping all my plumbing. It took me all day to unbolt the old manifold, clean up surfaces, add gasket sealant to both sides of the gasket, bolts didnt want to go back in till i had no skin left on my knuckles. Tightened them up as much as i could then filled the rad back up only to see water wee-ing out from under the manifold. So i suppose its try again, but halfords and a few others dont do a gasket and i wanted to get started today. I think its possible that the bolts are slightly too long so ill try with a couple of washers. Anbody out there know if this is the fuel inlet?

I first thought that, then realised it was the effect of the wide angle lens eg. look at the curve on the garage door in the nose cone reflection

This cheered me up this cold morning. http://www.break.com/index/worst-parallel-parking-ever1.html

Im swapping my r1 carbs and manifold with blade carbs and gbs manifold as the r1`s have fell off once too often. On number 4 inlet runner there is a nipple/pipe coming off it. Is it ok to blank this off? as I am not using a servo/vacuum and basically the only pipe coming of the r1`s was just the fuel pipe. Cheers

Aye, mark me down Doesnt half sound illegal though

After that cock up I think I can admit that.......................... When I first got my hood I wanted to take a photo of it from up above. Problem is I live in a bungalow so in my infinite wisdom i decided to climb on the garage roof. You can just make out the reflection of me in the nose cone. Just before the asbestos gave way and I fell through, grabbed a beam on the way down and dislocated my shoulder out of place by 4". I was off work for a month. Still the camera was ok and the pic looked good.