Carb Flooding

[andrew muir]

Jezzz I get 30mpg+ at a stready and thats in a heavier 2+2
SUs rule!!!

Back of a fag packet calcs ...

£50 - say 10 gallons ... 130 miles - 13mpg ... christ that is poor!

My old fastback had a Quickfuel 750CFM drag carb on it and I got 12mpg - and that was a 347cu in stroker ... one of the reasons it had to go. I once went from PBoro to Bury St Edmunds and back and it cost me over £80!

 

[Jimbo]

just adding that new 1 3/4 SU carbs can still be bought from this guy
mini and metro spares
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...8611c2edb9d023f!8m2!3d52.4112859!4d-1.9376613

hes a little slow but he somehow managed to pillage all of the old rover stock including a lot of rover V8 parts.
he sourced me 2 brand new carbs for about £300
all i had to do was buy replacment needles as the SM needles wouldnt fit (no top hat fitting for later SU) so ended up using DX needles