<VV> Turbo Carb

[Tony Underwood]

At 01:07 PM 5/23/2009, Ron wrote:
>Weren't they used on the Nash Ambassador?  The Ambassador was always known
>as a fine running car.
>RonH




They were used on other Nash cars as well, along with not only early 
Corvettes but a number of marine applications too.


The Carter Y is a respectable carb that does what it was intended to 
do, and does it well.   After over a half-century it's a bit dated... 
but it will still give a good account of itself if it's in good 
condition and set up right.

The key word is "good condition".   Years of stress and mis-use and 
overtightening of bolt hardware can warp the bodies, cause leaks and 
throw off primary metering in a Y carb.   Likewise assembling the 
carb wrong and/or getting a gasket in backwards or using the wrong 
gasket, blocking off a passage that otherwise wouldn't be missed 
except for the miserable idle and stumble that results.   They're 
really not that hard to make work once you understand them.

And, they can be made to go around corners by doing a different bowl 
vent.   Easy mod.   Lots of Y's were modded thus.   Too bad the 
venerable AFB wasn't as easy to vent or control fuel slosh.


My 'vair turbo tweaker still had a YH on it and it was as smooth 
running as anything I ever had.   And, it made power.   And it looked 
bone stock.

All those folks out there who think the Carter YH is a POS, send 
those examples of excrement along to me, glad to take them off your 
hands as cores.



tony..