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blufinz52
··Hears dead people, not watch rotors.I enjoy having enough light to rebuild a carb and relax for a bit before going to work.
Worst thing about daylight savings time?!?
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Pastorbottle
·That's where you're completely and utterly wrong. That hour of morning is extremely useful. I firmly believe that being up and doing something before you go off to work is important for your mental health. I enjoy having enough light to rebuild a carb and relax for a bit before going to work. I find that it makes the drudgery of morning meetings bearable.
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MRC
·Here's an explanation of time-zone problems. Well it's a minor rant actually.
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pdxleaf
··"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"
After ten days in Venice, the family walked to the bus stop to head to the airport for the ride home. Not seeing a bus, we casually asked a fellow passenger when the next bus was to arrive, and were told it would be in an hour and 15 mins. I asked the person why it was so long, and they said it's coming in only 15 minutes.
After a confusing back and forth, we learned that during the previous night, Venice had gone through DST. It was hard for this to sink in as we had already gone through DST back home before we left.
As this penetrated my brain, I realized I was going to have to pay for changing four plane tickets and maybe find a hotel.
With this in mind, we solemnly walked up to the ticket agent and told them our blunder. To our surprise, she said "oh, it's not your fault. It happens to a lot of people." We were stunned.
The agent then said she would rebook us with no additional fee, but unfortunately there were no planes until tomorrow. We would need to stay in Venice unless we were willing to fly to Paris and spend the night, then fly home from Paris the next day.
That was an easy answer. Suppressing a grin, I said we'd go to Paris, which we did.
After landing and making our way to the little airport hotel, we dumped our bags and caught the metro to the Eiffel tower, which we went up, and then had gyros in a little spot nearby. It was quick and a bit of a mad rush, but it is a strong memory for each of us.
Sometimes you get lucky.
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Waltesefalcon
·What, you don't have electric lighting?
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Waltesefalcon
·Any normal person has a hangover in the morning!............seriously, rebuilding a carbie in the morning...rushing it in a poxy hour? better to take your time and do it properly, then you wont have to rebuild the damned thing every morning before you go to work, Time is more useful in larger blocks when you can fit larger jobs in, otherwise you spend more time setting up, finding all the shit you need and packing up than doing the actual job.
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Pastorbottle
·I've rebuilt enough Holley 2300s over the years that they take me about thirty minutes to tear down and rebuild. In not tuning the carbs on an E Type or doing any heavy lifting.
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Waltesefalcon
·I'll take the balancing of the SUs on a E type over any Holley rubbish, I can never understand why people have so much trouble with multi carb set ups, I've always found them easy even multiple Webber or Dellorto side drafts are easy when you know how, the secret is once set properly, leave the bloody things alone! The reason people find them "unreliable" is that they fiddle with them......most "fuel system" problems are actually electrical!
Back when I turned wrenches for a living we had a guy with an E Type, who would bring it in about once a month and is have to get his carbs in tune all because he wouldn't leave them alone. It was annoying, but also steady work. 🤣
On my old Spitfire I ran a pair of SUs, sometimes I played with the idea of going with Dellortos, but the prices on them were starting to go up and I never had a problem with the old SUs.
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Pastorbottle
·I've owned half a dozen or more V8 Internationals with the old Holley 2300. I continue to mess with them because they are dead simple two barrels that run for a long time without needing to be touched. I also like the single barrel Carters on my two old Binders.
Back when I turned wrenches for a living we had a guy with an E Type, who would bring it in about once a month and is have to get his carbs in tune all because he wouldn't leave them alone. It was annoying, but also steady work. 🤣
On my old Spitfire I ran a pair of SUs, sometimes I played with the idea of going with Dellortos, but the prices on them were starting to go up and I never had a problem with the old SUs.
Whilst you can stick a Holley on anything and it will work....to a point, it's another matter to get it to work properly and efficiently.
I'm trying ti find some pix of my old 61' Inter AA120 4x4 duelly pickup for you, it was an abolute beast!
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorWelcome to hell, I don’t think anyone has it worse than us.
Yes, those are half hour time zones, no there is no good reason for them to exist.
No, we in QLD just try to pretend the rest of the country doesn’t exist. We’re basically the Texas of Australia… with a bit of Florida rolled in for good measure
We are the Alaska with Texas weather
Love it next town is 300km away then 17+ hours driving to the next 👍👍
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Waltesefalcon
·I always disliked Holleys due to the metering block design stupidity it'self to have so many gaskets and seal below the fuel level for larger US type carbies I always much preferred the Edelbrocks much more tunable to get the best out of it.
Whilst you can stick a Holley on anything and it will work....to a point, it's another matter to get it to work properly and efficiently.
I'm trying ti find some pix of my old 61' Inter AA120 4x4 duelly pickup for you, it was an abolute beast!
I'll look forward to seeing your AA120. If I recall right it's pretty similar to a US B series.
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