<VV> interesting carb problem discovered

[J R Read_HML]

Ray,

Quick ... quick...
Put everything back the way it was before you tell anyone about this.

Well, take the center out of the gasket.

Oh, anyone ELSE!

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Rodriguez III" <grymm at echoes.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 11:22 AM
Subject: <VV> interesting carb problem discovered


> Lets see if I can make this short....   Yesterday I decided that rather 
> then let my hot rodded 140 engine sit in the garage any longer (its been 
> sitting 2 years now) I would swap it into the 66' Corsa I just bought 
> (with a stock 140) and try it out.
>
> I'm swapping all the accessories onto the hotrod 140 from the stock 140... 
> including carbs etc.....
>
> Now I already drove this car about 1,000 miles.  It needed a tune up... 
> carbs seemed a bit out of sync, and I figured the timing was off cause I 
> was getting some backfires through the carbs on decel....   but overall 
> the car ran and drove fine.  I've never driven a properly running 140 vair 
> before... so admittedly I didnt have anything to compare it to.....
>
> WELL!...  when I pulled the carbs I found that the passenger side primary 
> was almost entirely (I'd say over 90%) blocked off by a defective 
> gasket....  the gasket under this carb didnt have a hole in it!!!!!  It 
> was just slightly torn on the left edge... allowing just a little tiny 
> opening for air/fuel to pass through.
>
> So....   first off how the heck was the car running so decent with this 
> little problem..... and second (rhetorical) how the hell did the person 
> installing the carbs/gaskets not notice this and do something about 
> it!!!!!   Scary.
>
>
> The other unfortunate thing is now I wont have any good comparison to see 
> how "hot" the hotrod 140 is... since the stock 140 obviously couldn't have 
> been running up to potential with this little gasket issue!....    of 
> course thats assuming the hotrod 140 actually runs and doesnt explode as a 
> result of my amateur mechanical endeavors... I'll let you know how I made 
> out in a couple days.
>
>
>
>
> Ray Rodriguez III
> CORSA member
> 66' Corsa 140/4 coupe
> 65' Corsa 140/4 coupe (under construction)
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