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On the road again!

WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
My 48 IDAs got back from their return trip to Utah earlier this week, they loved the climate, the caring hands; it seems they just had to go back!

Art and the boys had been walking us through a lot of additional adjustments out here, but that set was just doomed beyond the stripped linkage they arrived with...and bad accelerator pumps and hole in one of the floats and, oh never mind.

They just didn't want to sing in harmony up unil their last Utah tour!

Well it looks (I hope this ain't premature) as if Art debuggered 'em this time, gave 'em the kick-in-the-pants they needed and sent them back out on stage to my local choir director and they are ready to perform!

I took them out for a little pre-season caroling after work yesterday and they just sang to their heart's content, no choking, no forgetting the words (that's metaphoric, no forgetting why I bought the high performance little bastards) they just got into it...

So much so that I had to take them out again this morning! Yes, the neighbors were no doubt thrilled as they warmed their little throats in my garage at 4:00 this morning... and I'm certain the rest of the neighborhood is also thrilled with their croonings...such a throaty lot they are!

Now, if all of their accompanyments hold up,and the rest of the 'orchestra' doesn't split, maybe we'll smooth out a pretty rough opening tour and make a few remaining fair weather gigs!

All bullshit aside, be very wary buying these new Webbers. I know that the 48s were not meant for daily drivers, but with the third hole progression adjustments they are managebale so long as the rest of their little selfs are up to snuff.

CB Performance doesn't warrant them, probably no vendor does. My engine builder didn't warrant them, I'm sure he told everyone that's not his job. On top of the shelf price, I have a little over $1,200 in repairs and refinements spent on them...no sour grapes here, just a warning to those who may have idle fantasies about 'more power'.

Yeah, they give me a hell of a jolt on the go pedal, but keep your eye out(and your wallet safe)for future alternatives!

'scuse me I feel an encore is in order!

1958 Vintage Speedsters(Speedster)

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WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
My 48 IDAs got back from their return trip to Utah earlier this week, they loved the climate, the caring hands; it seems they just had to go back!

Art and the boys had been walking us through a lot of additional adjustments out here, but that set was just doomed beyond the stripped linkage they arrived with...and bad accelerator pumps and hole in one of the floats and, oh never mind.

They just didn't want to sing in harmony up unil their last Utah tour!

Well it looks (I hope this ain't premature) as if Art debuggered 'em this time, gave 'em the kick-in-the-pants they needed and sent them back out on stage to my local choir director and they are ready to perform!

I took them out for a little pre-season caroling after work yesterday and they just sang to their heart's content, no choking, no forgetting the words (that's metaphoric, no forgetting why I bought the high performance little bastards) they just got into it...

So much so that I had to take them out again this morning! Yes, the neighbors were no doubt thrilled as they warmed their little throats in my garage at 4:00 this morning... and I'm certain the rest of the neighborhood is also thrilled with their croonings...such a throaty lot they are!

Now, if all of their accompanyments hold up,and the rest of the 'orchestra' doesn't split, maybe we'll smooth out a pretty rough opening tour and make a few remaining fair weather gigs!

All bullshit aside, be very wary buying these new Webbers. I know that the 48s were not meant for daily drivers, but with the third hole progression adjustments they are managebale so long as the rest of their little selfs are up to snuff.

CB Performance doesn't warrant them, probably no vendor does. My engine builder didn't warrant them, I'm sure he told everyone that's not his job. On top of the shelf price, I have a little over $1,200 in repairs and refinements spent on them...no sour grapes here, just a warning to those who may have idle fantasies about 'more power'.

Yeah, they give me a hell of a jolt on the go pedal, but keep your eye out(and your wallet safe)for future alternatives!

'scuse me I feel an encore is in order!
WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
Brian,
Diana is keeping me on a short leash of late, a tune-up for possible pending doom, who knows! Anywho, 10/30 is her birthday and there is no way I'm gonna' mess up that day(s)!

Found all sorts of reasons to stay on the road around town and short jaunts onto the freeway yesterday, before our next rainstorm. Except for the harsher ride I've created,(well and the exhaust tone)the car seemed almost as well-mannered as the 135HP type1.

With mild trepidation I launched onto 780 from 80 eastbound and let it rip headed up the hill...great power, almost too much in the lower gears, sort of goes to waster the R-R-R-Rs come up so fast, soft shifts, no more broken nose-cone thunking shifts, touched 100 MPH in third @ 6000RPM, I think, everything on the dials moves pretty quickly, and it was pulling like a freight train... again I fantasize about closer ratio 2nd-3rd-4th, then a 5th.

Peaked Glen Cove offramp & top of the grade in 4th at well near 120 MPH... I gotta confess, the car handles a little iffy at high speed.
I roped it in for the downhill run as there was a parade quasi-SUVs of mid-sized proportions streamin' onto the freeway, no doubt headed to or from the Catholic hi-scool to pick up their prodigies.

Another day, another $12.00 worth of petrol.
WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
I took a Realtor friend out on home tour this A.M. in the speedster...the car drove smooth in and out of downtown traffic,was flawless scootin' around some of the hill streets and on the way home we jumped up on the freeway, powered up,up and away!

I'm really beginning to understand the value of TORQUE.

Being able to lounge along at freeway speeds, say 3400RPM and then just pedal (not peddle!) to 4500-5000RPM and overtake, go around or leave behind nearly anything is way cool!

I don't know that I'd recommend as many CCs or these big carbs, but they all seem to be working in harmony now...I sorta keep waiting to wake up and find it was all a dream and the engine is still in pieces all over the shop floor!

Oh, and for anyone looking at serious exhaust systems, this Phase Nine thing is the bomb!


Court & pre-trial shit was postponed again.
Still out on bail and lovin' life in Benicia
MASSIVETYPEIVMASSIVETYPEIV
Paul,
I am glad to hear that even though it was not a fun process, that you were able to finally enjoy my engine the way that I originally intended.

I suppose that the mods that Art did to the carbs really helped things out.Did he swap the carbs out with another set? Are they still "off or on" or did that calm down a bit?

I have heard about some issues with the new ones but have yet to hear of any needing to be totally scrapped due to the issues.
WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
Martha is beginning to look better n' better!

I went to an auction/ fund raiser sponsored by our Realtor Association...I was in the mix, schmoozing along when an associate walks up and asks, " Did you blow bubbles as a kid?" I guess you know I stepped right up and took the pie in the face responding, "Yes!" ( a little to enthusiastically I was told)

"Well he's out now and he's looking for you!" came the rejoinder.
WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
Spending half-again what the carbs sell for new, twice, I probably should have scrapped them. Receiving them with stripped threads on the thingie that connects the carb to the cross bar, eh? Shit happens I'm told.

Replacing tweaked accelerator pump levers or whatever they are seems to accompany the notion of dumping them, but hey, shit happens...

Developing/discovering (?) a subsequent hole in one of the floats that prevents one fourth of the engine working properly also falls into the shit happens category too...

I'm afraid I'm driving around waiting for the other shoe to drop, oooh that reminds me:

Two guys from National Geographic are forging into the jungles and their native guide cautions them about some of the native lore and wildlife concerns.

Two days into their trek one of their bearers gets shit on by a bird flying overhead, he wipes the shit off of his head and then collapses to the ground dead.

Next day, National Geographic guy number one gets hit in the head with a blast of #2 from a bird flying overhead...As he is reaching for his hankie to wipe it off, the native guide sees him do so and rushes to him ...this is the stuff of legends... "If the foo (bird) shits, wear it!"


WideRidezzzWideRidezzz
Thirty days and counting...
Good weather, bad weather, foggy and a bit of rain... heavy traffic, open road, now wine tours as yet.

Some sender thing for the oil pressure hook-em-up snapped off and a pulley-thingie started making a clicking sound and needed replacing, but so far-so good.

Continuing to get mid upper 20's MPG... Getting a big grin on drivability....almost complacent. There is so much power in fourth, I seldom down shift to over-take anything; revs come up fast and just keep coming. I fear the speedometer has given up the ghost as it just rolls over to the 200KPH and stays there as I approach higher RPMs in third and fourth... I added a reminder in yellow letters to the speedo's face at 140 KPH (+/-)"FELONY"

The exhaust question posted elsewhere recently gave me pause. I recall the flat spot I had with my Type1 engine prior to modifying the exhaust. This Phase Nine and Phase Nine Quiet Can I am running on this engine is truly matched to the engine's potential. I'm not in love with its looks, but the fit, finish and results far out weigh my longing for a single-tip center-exit exhaust system.
FM Former Member
Big engines (like my 2,387) with big carburetors (48's) and big cams (mine is 320 degrees advertised duration, .550 lift at the valve) can be very civilized. Mine is very smooth at all speeds, idles like a stocker, and has instant throttle response at anything over 3,000 RPM. Oil temps are quite reasonable and redline is 7,500 RPM.
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