DeTomaso Mailing List: May 1997, Message #5
     



From: JDeRyke@aol.com

Subject: Re: Webers or equiv.

Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 03:15:54 -0400 (EDT)



There are two setups that used to be available. One was a rather flat 90

degree adapter that added a pair of 48DCOEs to a garden-variety four-barrel

intake. The jazzy one is the individual-runner intake that mounts 4 of the

same carbs. The carbs naturally hang over the side of the engine, and all

Webers collect gas inside the air cleaner from air pulsations. On the

downdrafts, the extra gas is sucked into the engine on the next cycle, but

side-drafts tend to drip- onto the red-hot headers. Webers are also

high-maintenence carbs; one member spends at least on day a week cleaning the

very small air corrector jets (one jet per barrel). I'd seriously think about

port fuel injection, if I had $3000 (a Weber setup is about the same cost) J

DeRyke