CLIVE’S
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Clive, that’s me, hunter/breadwinner/top gun of this unit. There
is no way that I am going to bore people with things like what I do or where I
work. You didn't surf this far to
find that out did you ! What you
want is to find out what makes me tick, what rings my bell etc.
Well, here goes.
If you read my first webpage you will realise that I am into cars and
engines in a big way. I really love
to tinker with these things, which, if you follow the links on this page you
will get to find out.
Go to Stans Beetle
Go to Vento diesel
Go
to Locost
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I really like messing with carburetors and
“clockwork” distributors. There’s
something satisfying when you get an engine tuned up right with the settings
optimized, without the aid of digital electronics !
I find Webers/Dellorto’s particularly good but I don’t mind the odd
SU.
In fact, I am currently looking into
modifying a pair of these on the V8 fitted to my LandRover to operate on LPG.
I want the engine to operate solely on LPG and using an off the shelf
mixer would preclude me from setting the balance between the two of them.
I intend to remove the existing jet assemblies and open out the bores to
suit 15mm copper tubes, which I will bond into place.
There will be an elbow soldered onto these tubes along with a short
length of straight tube, which will connect to the hose from the LPG vapouriser.
I am going to leave the pistons in place (the variable venturi effect
with these carburetors is legendary, I don’t want to loose the flexibility,
especially off road) but remove the needle assemblies. The
spring will be removed to assist throttle response, I think this will be ok, the
original design was to assist in vaporizing the petrol, I have the luxury of
starting with a gas (LPG) so that part of the calibration is sorted.
I will have to block off the redundant ports in the carburetor bodies,
but that should be straightforward. At
a quick glance, the engine will appear standard, come to think of it, if it
works ok, this could be a way to run classic cars on LPG without ugly mixing
valves attached, spoiling the lines !
Still to be finalised are a few
more pages. I just haven’t got
round to it yet, but if the links are in place I can upload them as soon as they
are complete.
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