Living life with a carbureted car #blogpost
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.
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
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
Yes mine has done nothing but problems but some days is a wonderful car
Lean it out and it will run better.
That’s cute 😂
Carburetors are not as bad as people say they are, i have only had carbed cars for most of my life as i’m into classics, my Ford Capri never fails to start with 488.000 Km
Most probably aren”t but the carb on my car is messed up… the previious owner took a flathead screwdriver and pryed open the primary throttle blade so for now I have tl run it super rich so that makes it very hard to start up in the mornings
carbs are awesome, i dont actually have problem with cold air, but i do with moisture
I daily a carburated 6.6 V8
I drove my $500 craigslist ‘73 lemans that had been sitting 20 years with nothing more than a swap to a used Holley 4bbl carb and points adjustment daily from September through April two years ago before I tore it down because the cam went flat, and not once did I ever have a problem starting it. Pump the gas once (or twice if it was really cold out first thing in the morning) and It’d fire up first crank. Kinda had to feather the throttle for a few seconds until it started to warm up sometimes, but that was it. Never had a single time it wouldn’t start or adjust the carb after putting it on the motor. Did have to figure out how to adjust the non-adjustable valvetrain after 3 or 4 of the hydraulic lifters decided they didn’t want to hold pressure, though.
All I know is I’ve ran a 2000 dollar tbi unit, and a 300 dollar handme down carb on the same motor/car…I’d choose the carb any day of the week hands down. Atleast the carb is able to start every single time and doesn’t have some wierd parisitic draw that kills batteries
Pump pump pump crank.
Although if your carb is shot you’re gonna have a bad time. Best of luck with the new one.
I have had 3 or so carb’d cars and yes, they’re kindof a pain in the ass, but you don’t know agony until you’ve tried tuning something worse: Bosch Mechanical Injection.
A carb is complex, sure, but it’s like putting a round block into a round hole in a children’s toy compared to trying to tune CIS.
I feel ya. I have an 87 Civic sedan with a Weber 32/36 DGAV carb. I removed the electronic choke but never convertrd it to manual choke. Just gotta pump the throttle a couple times and hold it 1/3 to 1/4 open and it starts on the 3rd or 4th try depending on how cold it is outside.