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ClutchFork wrote:...So I started carrying a stick of firewood with me and that became my parking brake.
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'08 Jeep Liberty 6-Speed MT - "Last of the Mohicans"
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Director of Advance Powertrain and SRT Engineering with details on the Demon.
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Rope-Pusher wrote:The "Rockford Turn" and How to Do It



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I remember being mad jelly over the Manta's fuel injection - carbureted vehicles had a lot of driveability issues back then what with emissions and fuel economy tuning. A fellow student in my combustions class said that, even in the dead of winter, all she had to do was twist the ignition key to start the car - no Morse code with the gas pedal required!

Back in those days of yore, you often had to learn a particular technique for starting a car, and it varied with the season of the year, how long the car had been sitting, the phase of the moon, etc. This knowledge was passed along to anyone who borrowed the vehicle or to the next owner.

Yeah, boring-out the carb jets and accelerator pump nozzles as well as increasing the rate of the centrifugal advance for the ignition helped a lot, but it wasn't legal for a stealership or a private garage to make those types of modification, so most folks just soldiered on with engines that sputtered and surged.
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DO.WANT.NOW!!!! :o :!: :twisted:
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Which one Rob, the wife or the Musclestang?
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Rope-Pusher wrote:Which one Rob, the wife or the Musclestang?
two of each, STAT 8)
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potownrob wrote:
Rope-Pusher wrote:Which one Rob, the wife or the Musclestang?
two of each, STAT 8)
OK, but you're going to be busy, hand-washing only, right?
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potownrob wrote:
Rope-Pusher wrote:Which one Rob, the wife or the Musclestang?
two of each, STAT 8)
OK, but you're going to be busy, hand-washing only, right?
only touch-less automatic car washes, for the musktanks that is :o :)
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Rope-Pusher wrote:I remember being mad jelly over the Manta's fuel injection - carbureted vehicles had a lot of driveability issues back then what with emissions and fuel economy tuning. A fellow student in my combustions class said that, even in the dead of winter, all she had to do was twist the ignition key to start the car - no Morse code with the gas pedal required!

Back in those days of yore, you often had to learn a particular technique for starting a car, and it varied with the season of the year, how long the car had been sitting, the phase of the moon, etc. This knowledge was passed along to anyone who borrowed the vehicle or to the next owner.

Yeah, boring-out the carb jets and accelerator pump nozzles as well as increasing the rate of the centrifugal advance for the ignition helped a lot, but it wasn't legal for a stealership or a private garage to make those types of modification, so most folks just soldiered on with engines that sputtered and surged.
I hate cobbaraytas, and that crap with starting is one of the major reasons why...and that's even with my relatively well-behaved carburetor. Mine doesn't need much morse code, nor much seasonal variation. One press to set the choke, any season, when engine is cold. On the coldest days it might not stay alive after it fires unless I feed it some accelerator pedal for the first couple minutes. If it's warmed up, start like fuel injection. However, it took some years, many miles, and much meddling for it to begin behaving so well, and it's still nowhere near as good as computerized fuel injection.

I've finagled my ignition advance all kinds of ways, but what's this about boring out jets and nozzles? Just for the sake of going richer? That's not a compromise I'd want to make, dumping and wasting fuel like that all the time just so the stupid thing will start.
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