[TPR] Asa's progress

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Glad to hear your carb is installed and working, AJ.
Be sure to test car under load at higher speeds before the SSCC.
Thinking fuel starvation etcetera.

Perhaps also do the Friday shootout?
It will tell you something about the engine and carb tune for sure. 

We will probably also do the 1 mile shootout if my car becomes ready in time for the SSCC. 

And when reading your message I kept thinking, what would you do if the car/carb caught fire and engine did not start? 
How would you be able to put it into reverse and also back it out?

Cheers Bjoern

> Den 14. aug. 2015 kl. 07:50 skrev Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>:
> 
> In my best Gene Wilder voice...
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> ALIVE!.... ALIVE!.... IT'S ALIVE!!!
> 
> I forgot to grab the extra bits I needed on the way home, so after dinner it was back to Napa and then to Autozone to get the fittings for the fuel and vacuum.  Done deal, I picked up the brass fuel fittings from Napa though I had to do a two-piece kludge to get 90* and the size I wanted for the fuel line; at Autozone I picked up a large variety pack of vacuum fittings and a large variety pack of vacuum plugs.
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> Once home, I fit the 90* fitting onto the fuel log, an appropriate size vacuum fitting on the ported vacuum port and set about final float adjustments.
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> I'm beginning to love this little hand-held vacuum pump.  It came with a reservoir so you can either suck fluid without getting it into the pump, or push fluid out in a neat manner.  With that in mind, I used the pump to get some gas out of Shelley's Jeep (don't tell her that).  I then reversed the pump, attached it to the fuel log of the Holley and started pumping.
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> With the sight plugs removed, I could see the floats rising until they stopped.  They both stopped short of the sight holes so I raised them each about a quarter to half turn.  I'm sure glad I did this on the bench and not on the car... those center-hung fuel adjusters for the needle and seat can leak like a mother when you loosen the screw to adjust the nut.  Good grief!
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> Once the floats were adjusted I installed the sight plugs and put the carb on the engine.  I snugged everything down, routed the fuel lines, vacuum lines, attached linkage and the 12V feed to the choke.  After installing the air cleaner, I pulled the Halon fire extinguisher out and set it on the seat next to me.
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> For some reason, I kept thinking of the next door neighbor kid when I was young.  He was 16 or 17 and had an early 70's Camaro.  One night he was messing around with the carb (not that he was the brightest bulb in the box) and he got a backfire that lit it on fire... in the garage.... under the house.
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> The house burned completely to the ground.
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> I figured if mine caught fire I'd throw it into reverse and get it out of the garage, then put out the flames.
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> One pump on the pedal and she fired on the first turn... and idled smoothly without intervention.
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> HoooHAAA!  She's alive and purrs.
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> I grabbed my drop-light and did an inspection around the carb while running to check for leaks.  Finding none after a bit of engine rumbling I shut it down and quit for the night.  I have to pick up friends at the airport in a little while.  I'll monkey with fine tuning it all tomorrow and this weekend.
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> But right now... that old Holley 3310-2 (modified) from Mark is working after about $150 in parts and some of my evening time over the last week or two.
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> Fun times,
> Asa  Jay
> 
> Asa Jay Laughton