Another New Carb

Another new carb is on its way! The old Edelbrock Performer 1407 750cfm is on ebay and the 1805 Thunder AVS 650 will go the same way. I have tried for several months now to eliminate the secondary bog, only to create a new problem where the excessive air door tension means that if the revs are too low then the door doesn't open and the engine bogs rich until the air flow picks up, or I lift my foot out of the throttle.

Currently in the post from the States is a new Quick Fuel SS series 750cfm mechanical secondary carb. Its a Holley double pumper clone with annular boosters and changeable jets and air bleeds - all the bells and whistles! After a lot of deliberation and research I've decided to try my luck with a mechanical secondary carb which should suit a very light, short geared manual transmission car. The Quick Fuel SS has annular boosters which from what I understand should tame the 750 to make it more driveable at lower rpm. I had the option of a 650cfm but I went for the 750 as I expect the annular boosters to help and on my 750 Eddy the idle circuit is widely known for being insufficient and I expect the Quick Fuel to be better in this respect.

Updates will be coming as I fit it and see what its like.

Brands Hatch American Speedfest III

Sunday 7th June was American Speedfest III at Brands Hatch. We were treated to two rounds of the European NASCAR championship and a variety of support races of F5000, miscellaneous classic V8's and silhouette racers, plus demonstrations and parades of anything else American that you could imagine.

At the end of it all we were all allowed to go on track for a nice steady parade, that in keeping with the parade rules absolutely did not include a rather cheeky burnout down the start finish straight when a little gap opened up hehe :) 

Here's the view looking back downhill from Druids hairpin:

Me standing awkwardly next to my own car, looking like a tourist:

And a few other photos of cars which caught my eye. Unfortunately the camera on my phone is a bit scratched and it diffuses the light a bit to make the images slightly hazy in bright sunshine.

For some reason I both love and hate this age of Mustang in equal amounts. Either way this was a very nice example and did some massive smoking burnouts on the parade lap.

Tom Petty #43, and my best friend Mater :)

Here's our cobra parked up, enjoying the view.

Queueing for the NASCAR grid walk was worth it, really interesting to see some of the cars up close

Naomi meeting a member of the Earnhardt family who was racing today, Jeffrey Earnhardt, no less. Eddie Cheever III was also there.

Number 21 Gabriela Arantes Prado, didn't have a pen handy to sign our programme and I could not for the life of me remember what Portuguese for good luck is. Later remembered its boa sorte!