BODGES!

[SeventyNine]

my solutiion to combat carb icing ;D ;D ;D ;D

used:
length of air conditioning ducting
roll of fetching blue gaffa tape
2 black bags


;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Thats not a bodge, its quality!!!!

don't come back next week and tell me your ezz has burned out though.

[Dave Dorson]

Love it!

But I would have made some kinda "box" out of an old tin, to sit round the car, and fed the heat to that, thus allowing nice clean cool air into your carb still.

That said, it'd prolly have to get pretty hot to stop icing using that technique

[SeventyNine]

its stopped the icing, from what i gathered on my short trip round the block.

under the black bbag there is an air filter, so its not unfiltered air going into the carb.

and ive kept it away from anything hot (apart from the manifold, which ive put it pretty close to, and its held in place by a length of aluminium pipe that runs down the centre of the tubing.

ive got an extnguiser just in case ;D ;D

[Mr K]

cappuccinocruiser said:

Love it!

But I would have made some kinda "box" out of an old tin, to sit round the car, and fed the heat to that,

abit over the top? espcially just to fix carb iceing!

[SeventyNine]

i am actually going to cover the air filter in some thin aluminium and do it a bit properly on the weekend. as its a bit restrictive. cos where the ducting comes innto the black bag, tehres a carb trumpet coming out of the carb, which the feed hits the side of, so its not getting quite enough air

[hairnet]

bosh some gaffa tape over the bag parts

plastic burning urgh

[reanimation]

is that why years ago cars used to have the grill covered up with cardboard etc? whys it not an issue now you don't see grills covered now.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

cos cars have fuel injection now not carbs!

[SeventyNine]

if you squint your eyes lots, it looks like a boost pipe ;D ;D

[stanton]

Latham YOU are the ultimate curse word PIRATE

[reanimation]

e661301 said:

cos cars have fuel injection now not carbs!

Not all though. My sapphire may be no spring chicken but that has a carb, mind mines not a real grill. in the 80's i used to see abolutely loads of covered grilles, this time of weather

[racer86]

if it works sound, but under load does it not just suck the bag onto the airfilter stopping the airflow?

[PhoenixC]

reanimation said:

e661301 said:

cos cars have fuel injection now not carbs!

Not all though. My sapphire may be no spring chicken but that has a carb, mind mines not a real grill. in the 80's i used to see abolutely loads of covered grilles, this time of weather

It used to get done to help cars warm up faster as well by stopping airflow through the radiator. But normally not an issue on modern cars.

[SeventyNine]

racer86 said:

if it works sound, but under load does it not just suck the bag onto the airfilter stopping the airflow?

errrm, had a quick blast around the manor, and nothing liek that happened. there is a pretty rigind air filter underneath, that stops most of that id imagine.

if it doesnt work tomoro, ill just rip it out and put up with icing til the weekend

[racer86]

i like the single weber on your motor, didnt even know you could get a manifold for one, looks mint and i bet its pretty nippy to, whats the engine spec?

[PhoenixC]

racer86 said:

i like the single weber on your motor, didnt even know you could get a manifold for one, looks mint and i bet its pretty nippy to, whats the engine spec?

There is not normally much more of a performance increase from a single sidedraft over a well set up downdraft, but they do sound nicer ;D

[Davenger]

The other option if that craps out is to wrap some copper pipe around the carb and plumb it into the cooling system.
Seen it done on Minis using old skool Minnow fish carbs

[SeventyNine]

racer86 said:

i like the single weber on your motor, didnt even know you could get a manifold for one, looks mint and i bet its pretty nippy to, whats the engine spec?

the engine is standard, its putting out 86 brake on the rollers, and around 100ftib of torque aswell. i 'think' as standard, its 79 brake, i kno the 1.6 pinto is 86 brake (mk2 mexico lump) so its basically the same power as a mk2 mex

only thing ive done to it, its a baffled sump, 4 branch, and new carb.

2.0i coming soon tho ;D