The darkside is calling... 1972 Squareback

Russ Wolfe · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:16 am Post subject:

He had ICT's on it previously.

All passages in a carb are accessible. You may have to drill a galley plug, but they are acceessible.

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ddesh · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:38 am Post subject:

dave i know i have a good carb body next sat if weather is good i will make another run up there.If you dont have plans

Russ Wolfe · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:44 am Post subject:

Stock oil bath is a WAY better filter system than any of the paper filters supplied with after market carbs.
Any of the little 1"-2" paper filters will restrict your breathing at high RPM.
Plus, you are sucking in hot air from inside the engine compartment, instead of nice cool air from the fresh air plenum.
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localboy · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:58 am Post subject:

Yep. Some nice, new Spanish 40 IDF's would work just fine on a 1776.
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blankmange · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:20 pm Post subject:

replacement carburetor body is in the mail from Keith -- should be able to get this finished soon and running again...

btw -- that wingnut that everybody says is NLA? it took me five whole minutes in a hardware store to get a replacement...
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blankmange · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:59 am Post subject:

since there's no action on the car this week, I've been playing with an app called poladroid -- takes your pics and makes 'em look like a 70's Polaroid took the pic:

the French to English translation is a little perplexing at times, but pretty slick app...

http://www.poladroid.net/
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Tram · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:01 pm Post subject:

localboy · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject:

blankmange · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

for Halloween:

all credit goes to Lidpainter...
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blankmange · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:16 am Post subject:

Danny's coming up tomorrow and we're going to finish the carburetor swap...

until then, I've been playing with the new digital camera:

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blankmange · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:08 pm Post subject:

IT RUNS!

It's like a completely different engine now -- smooth at idle, smooth transition and smooth at speed... I never knew how much the ICT's were holding this 1776 back...

I've got some more driving to do and check the spark plugs to determine if we are running rich or not, but it seems all is well...
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Foxx · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject:

congrats
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blankmange · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:41 pm Post subject:

Russ Wolfe · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:55 pm Post subject:

Congratulations are in order. Go drink a cup of coffee, or what ever you drink.

I knew you and Danny could get it.
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blankmange · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:27 pm Post subject:

ddesh · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:56 pm Post subject:

dave glad you like the way it drives.i'm sorry it took a third time to get it right but the end ti drives better so thats great

blankmange · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:37 pm Post subject:

SnowPalooza '11:

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blankmange · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:06 pm Post subject:

shortly after taking the above picture, I clipped one of my euro taillights with a snow shovel, shattering the lense all to shit.... so, come spring, I'll be ordering a new set from karmannghia.com....
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blankmange · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject:

due to SnowPalooza '11, which dumped about 16" of snow on us, we haven't seen the mail-person at our house since Monday, so I stopped by the post office to pick up our lump of mail and to my surprise, this was in it:

it'll look great on my Hurst shifter, come spring...
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