Living life with a carbureted car #blogpost

28 May 2016

About half a year ago, I bought a 30 year old car. Life with it hasn’t been the easiest, but I’ll save that story for another time. For now, or until I go offtrack, I’ll focus on my life with said carburetor. I bought this car to be a daily driver and project. The project part isn’t so prevalent at this time. So it’s more of a daily. For now at least. Anyway, I should stop stalling and get to the point.

Functionality

Living life with a carbureted car #blogpost

Even if my area thinks about getting cold I’ll have trouble starting the car in the morning. My area had a somewhat rough winter so I always had starter fluid on hand. This old thing also burns more gas than a newer v8. The only consolidating things about it is that since the end of April, I’ve had no problem with starting it up.

Performance

My carburetor for lack of better terms is f*cked. The previous owner who tried to get it to run again after being in storage for years, decided to take a flathead screwdriver and pry open the the throttle blade so it is more in the shape of a deformed “U” instead of flat. Now putting that out there the performance is Ehhh.. It propels the car forward, that’s about it. This is even with it set to run SUPER rich.

Overview

I’m impartial to the stock carburetor in my car. But this “review is not entirely out of the blue. I have ordered a new carburetor that should be here this Tuesday or Wednesday. So lucky me. I get to experience all of the horsepower in my car now. I will be doing a follow up review of my car after I have a fully functional carb on it. But until then I’ll leave you with this.

Comments

Never had a single isue with my carburators, its a dally car, always starts and runs like a injected engine.

Thank you for sharing this. As I had never really seen a honda carburetor

Same

I miss the hands on ability to mechanically modify and setup engine components like carbs and ignition. Now it’s all high tech with computers talking to computers. With a few simple hand tools I could do a lot of meaningful work. Now not so much. Of course I don’t miss tune ups every 10K miles or engines being worn out, or at least gummed and carboned up every 100K miles. And my 6cyl Genesis Coupe could easily out run my 1963 Impala SS 409 I was so proud of as a kid. I’m still struggling a bit to get with the times but I still look back with some nostalgia.

carburettors - because fuel economy is overrated :D

So, I guess I must have a winning combo - 2x Yugo with 2x twin Dellorto 40’s. Must be sadistic bas*ard me.

Joining the club, I run a weber on my 95 Swift 😄and yes, the very first struggle was jetting.

do you have a family that shares this car with you?

No? Why do you ask?

‘’SUPER RICH’’ won’t give you better performance. usually it decreases power even further by setting it with a rich AF ratio. Just FYI op :)

For now with my permanantly pryed open throttle blade i need all that gas because air is just being pumped in so this is as close as I could get to a 14.7:1 air fuel mixture

So you mean to tell me that you are (kinda) complaining about your car’s fuel economy with it set to “super rich”.

Im not complaining about about it the thing is that for my car to anywhere near right I have to keep it very rich because how the throttle blade is pryed open so it just dumps a ton of air in making it super lean on a normal 14.7:1 fuel air mixture

Thats why I want to do revers swap. Kill my EFI system and buy some fine 4 barrel carb becaouse it dont want to start when its warm or runs rich and mileage is bad too. The other car with stock 2 carbs runs much better. So hell yes! Carb is love, carb is life! Good luck with your new carb sir!

Hey, what year is that Blazer, i have an 89 S10 4x4. Also just saying the gas mileage doesnt get much better, but i still need to replace the oxygen sensor so who knows…