Had a nice surprise today. Some of you may remember that I have a different type of engine installation with my Soob Frankenmotor. It's running a Weber 32/36 progressive 2 bbl carb. Progressive just means it spends most of it's life running on the 32 mm side of things and the secondary 36 only opens very late in the game if you have your foot right on the floor. I get pretty good gas mileage.
After looking at the the secondary's action, I noticed that even at WOT it was not opening up that much with the existing linkage. There is a similar 2 bbl Weber carb... the 38/38 which is fully synchronous using direct, interconnecting gears on the butterfly shafts but I didn't want to blow $250 to see if it would work.
A little searching on the net revealed the sync link. Just a $50.00 investment for the a linkage kit that joins the two barrels of the carb together to operate like the 38/38. I got one and installed it today in about 10 minutes. The weather was just over freezing and the roads had dried out from the freezing rain we had over that last few days.
Wow...quite a difference. A quick, non tire burning takeoff in first, then second and third actually put me well into the seat back. My car has never moved like that before.....quite a nice surprise. One lad reported that he uses the sync link for horsing around town and he goes thru a lot of gas and when taking a trip he removes the link to the secondary in a couple of minutes and the car runs just fine on the first, single bbl. I guess that's where I've spent most of my Soob life so far.
This addition won't affect any of you that I know of, but it sure worked for me. If you do get really tired of rebuilding, synchronizing your carbs etc or just losing little brass things this may be an option with a single center mount carb. Certainly not as cool as a twin carb setup though.....and yes, the engine is still dirty. :-)
