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      • Secondary Throttles
        03/29/22
        Well...got new cold start cable (it's not really a choke) in with zero issues (except for making another blood offering through the chassis access hole in the cockpit...). This is what I did...

        1. Remove the inner cable from the new sheath (carefully...don't want to kink or sta

      • TC Fuel Tank Supports
        03/19/22
        I thought of back-threading stainless bolts through the mounts (mine have welded nuts on the tank straps) and using fender washers and stainless nylocs on the inside the fender side to re-attach.

        Of course, getting the car up in the air high enough to drop the old tanks (I picked up a set

      • Carb Overhaul Pt 1
        03/11/22
        Finished first carb (rear carb...the front is almost there.) New gaskets where needed, temp compensator checked and they're close, need to find proper size drift to set the butterfly shaft seals, needles set correctly, float level set for 11/16", but for now...polished (I know, geeky) the

      • Carb Needles
        03/10/22
        The needles in my car are the Euro taper, but whomever (and it wasn't the PO; going to start saying PPO, since the gent I bought the car from admitted that he was in over his head and was hoping someone like me would take it off his hands...) replaced them in the piston and never set the height

      • Carburetor Mount Issues
        03/09/22
        Was just spitballing (poking a stick in the cage?). Have the intake down to the head flanges all apart...finding all sorts of DPO happiness (like no nuts on the 2 bottom studs holding both of the carbs on the adapter plate to the secondary throttle assembly), copious amounts of RTV squeezed out of

      • Thoughts on TCS Brakes on 3291R
        03/07/22
        Hope I'm not starting a religious war here...but probably talking heresy regarding the braking system in US JPS 142.

        IMHO, a 1500 lb car with 120(?) HP in this day and age...it's over-engineered a bit to put double boosters in the circuit, aside from the piping complexity. Li

    • February