Andi

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Great day out, it did get rained off at about 4.30 but what can you expect? So much more to do at the Pod than there used to be. The VW club were there in huge numbers. Thanks to Trevor 2B.

Hmm, sounds interesting Steve. Ive always felt the clips to be too thick. I did try a bracket once with limited success. Do you have any pictures of yours??

The reason I have been messing about between 2 sets of carbs is, the originals worked fine (1.8mm jets) but under load from low revs particularly in 3rd and 4th the car would almost die. So to get good acceleration I had to keep the revs up. I thought I could live with this due to the increase at the top end but it started to drive me nuts. I tried the other set I had, re drilled those jets to 1.65mm, change the float O rings as suggested (which worked) but still had all sorts of problems with these carbs, so i put the originals back on, swapped the bigger jets for the smaller ones and yesterday seemed to pick up nicely, so I think problem cured. Only problem last night was the carbs popped off the rubbers down a dark country track after the Leics meet.... A pet problem of mine that seems to haunt me with bike carbs. Think i`ll clean them up and try glue in addition.

Cheers Robin, Manged to get them out and yes the one is a little flat compared to the rest.

Has this ever been done? Would there be any interest? Like a student exchange thingy where 1 branch of club goes to another club area for say a weekend. Obviously in the summer.

Myself and SWIMBO use AA. We switched to green flag but switched back as they didnt seem to want to have a go at repairing at the road side, just hoiking you onto the trailer. Where as AA have tinkered for hours before now.

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?