<VV> Running on 3-Cylinder Vair

[J R Read_HML]

You DO know how to clear the offending carb by the roadside, right?

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FrankCB at aol.com>
To: <Sethracer at aol.com>; <jallenm at comcast.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> 3-Cylinder Vair motor


>
> Reminds me of the time many years ago when son Jim  and I decided to take
> "Joe Cool" (66 Monza 95hp PG A/C) to a  local autocross.  After the 
> autocross,
> the car was hard to start but  we finally got it going to discover one 
> carb was
> completely nonfunctional (found  out later that the main jet was 
> completely
> blocked with silt).  So we drove  home on the highway using only 3 
> cylinders.
> The engine ran relatively  smoothly but with much less power and a lot 
> more
> heat.  Fortunately, I had  installed a calibrated aftermarket CHT gauge 
> and even
> more fortunately the  pickup sensor was on the side of the 3 firing 
> cylinders.
> Whereas the  cruising temp with all 6 firing was around 350 deg.F, with 
> only
> 3 firing, it  easily reached 450 and even higher.  We frequently had to 
> run
> at lower  speed on the shoulder everytime the temp started to climb much 
> above
> 450.   But we made it home safely.  I figure our average A/F ratio was 
> about
> 24 to  1.<GGGG>
>    Frank "EVERY Corvair needs a CHT gauge"  Burkhard
>