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Originally Posted by Oldman
...I believe that most of these places may know how to tune computorised cars but don,t have a clue about carbs.
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when you can charge a grand to load a program in and tweak some of the variables, why would they fark about for half a day on a greasy old carb car that no one cares about.
This is the attitude I find amongst most "tuners" these days.
(before someone jumps on me about how hard it is to tune efi, theres plenty who do exactly what I described, after all, a cam change and exhaust on a stock engine will likely produce repeatable results when used with the same memcal/flashtune etc. There are always exceptions)
You being of "distinction" are probably dealing with kids half your age that dont know a thing about carbs, let alone how they work, its been 20 odd years since a factory engine had a carb on top and most of these "kids" wouldnt know a thing about making them work other than a blast at full throttle to check the mixtures and a quick spin of the dizzy to tweak the timing, ignore part throttle, accell. pumps, lash adjustments etc. Its the number that counts.
I dont know what theyre like over there but y'all need to find a tuner who does a lot of strip work with old cars to have half a chance, failing that Oldman, start renting yourself out to the young blokes to tune it when they have a squirt on the rollers.
sorry for the rant, but its like that here too!
(case in point, a local tuner with the biggest and baddest dyno in town told me to bump timing to 36 degrees
on a holden to cure an idle fuel problem)