bigmac

Next Sat, May 3rd

bigmac

Todays F car

bigmac

Next Saturday, 888 Railroad St., Ypislanti MI

mj1pate

There was also the period during the early 70's of mechanical fuel injection. I remember seeing more than a few imports stalled on campus, and being unable to do anything but walk away once the cars were identified as ""injected". My '81 Alfa mechanical Spica injection only lasted 50 k miles before it was DOA'd on account of leaking fuel into the oil. It seems that no one at Alfa thought about the impact of unleaded fuel on old pump designs that relied on lead based lubrication. I swapped out the Spica for dual Webers and (seriously) the real fun began. trouble was, it wasn't legal and I envied the next model year Spider equipped with L-Jet.

bigmac

Tomorrow

kjurkic

The thing about P & C is that you could always coble something together out of bits & pieces when desperate.

I was stripping an old '78 ford for a demolition derby, and zapped the ignition electronics (which were notoriously sensitive to the least little spark). The only fix I had at hand was an old chevy P & C distributor. A bit of work with a file, pliers, and some percussive persuasion, and voila, a hybrid distributor. The other fellow assisting proceeded to run all spark wires, and tried starting, but could only get an occasional backfire through the carb, until I informed him that chevy & ford V-8 distributors rotate in OPPOSITE direction.

That car proceeded to win that day's main event; it didn't run very well, but it "took a licking and kept on ticking"

Ken