Reminds me of when a mate who had next to no mechanical experience decided that he would adjust the mixture on the 2 carbys on his Alfa something or other. He had no idea that balancing of carbys is almost magic and when he came to me with the problem I had even less idea, but at least I wouldn't have touched them. I am sure it was/is an art-form with guys using hoses to pickup the sound of the air drawn through them.

I loved my first car with fuel injection, even though it was a VN commodore.

If only we could only just talk about engines on a wind sport forum we would have peace

FormulaNova said..
...but I think I really need to know what would Carantoc do? ....

It has been agreeed by quorum that Carantoc isn't the seabreeze.com.au small engine carburettor expert. Why would you want to see Carantoc's advice before actual experts ?

Besides Carantoc lives in the 21st century and anyone driving car that has carburettors should have a serious look at their own carbon footprint and the effect of their selfish hobbies on others and the environment.

Go electric. Or at least go fuel injected. Or at least failing that carry on with your sinful ways but don't preach to others.

How dare you.

this trend of buying bits of guns and electronics for cheap and frankensteinin concerns me

soon we will need to know how to shoo the electrical engineers away by throwing capacitors valves and resistors as they circle my broken white goods with theyre temu parts around my tv like vultures to a carcass

this is how cyber punk begins im not ready for akira to be a documentary

Mechanics used to know how to fix things, now they just replace things.

I once overclocked a CPU running at 4.77 mhz, got it up to 8.7 before it failed, so I backed it off a bit. This meant that my spreadsheet refresh took 30 minutes instead of 45. FTW!

what bothers me is not being able to install new brake pads on a mercedes without any computer involvment because you need to retype in the new brake pad depth otherwise it behaves asif the old thin pads are still on