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. 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.