Check the carb kit box... maybe there's a coupon/credit for $256.00 to cover a carb body and labor to assemble it

 

Oh, don't I wish..

 

I figured that would amuse you.

 

You should never use RTV for intake manifold gasket. If you don't have the proper gasket go to the parts store and buy some gasket material and make your own gasket. And the engine isn't going to bog down it is going to speed up when you spray it.

 

the gasket was there, just figured itd be good insurance to add some. just did a thin coating using my finger to spread it out.

carb cleaner will make a motor bog down, just like seafoam. ether, will make it speed up.

 

Quite a few years ago, actually about three decades ago, I had a garage door fall on a Kohler engine , I think it was, breaking the carb. Don't remember the price, but I remember that I could have got a Holly 4 Bbl. for about the same price.

 

I once owned a 16 hp Sattley industrial engine. I bought it from a friend with the idea of building a killer mini bike. It was just to big for that project so I built a buzz saw instead.

Oh, I built the mini bike but the old engine was so lumpy when it ran it shook the welds apart. The minibike was pretty big too. I used 14” ford wheels and tires on it.The axles rode on pillow blocks bolted to the frame.

The original carb for it was in very bad shape. The float was made of brass and had corroded so badly it had to be manufactured by hand. It took me a long time to solder oneup out of shim stock but it 'worked'

I don't remember what brand the original carb was but finally I found one from a 12 hp Briggs engine that bolted on and worked a whole lot better.

Eventually my brother in law ended up with the engine. I'd sold the buzz saw to someone who sold it to someone else and I was really surprised many years later when my brother in law eventually ended up with the engine minus the buzz saw.

The most shocking thing was it still ran. When I bought the engine it had a blown head gasket so I got it cheap. I couldn't find parts for it so I made a head gasket out of some steel from a side panel from an old clothes washing machine.

 

Now THAT is creative.

 

Who is into drag racin? Thunder Valley at Bristol Dragway.

Nothing like the sound and sensation of two 8000hp rails going down the 1/4 mile.

Well except Charlotte that's is, they go four wide down there

 

In about '74 I lived in the thriving metropolis of Bruce Wisconsin {that may be a slight exaggeration} I bought a '69 Mustang with the 428 Super Cobra Jet and a 4 speed. It was scary fast when I bought it and I spent a small fortune trying to make it go faster.

Almost every month I would foolishly spend more money than I could really afford to on some new toy for the car. Once I'd get it installed I'd just have to take the car down to Amber Green in Eau Clair Wisconsin to run the lights to see how much I had improved things.

It came with a 650 cfm carburetor and I stepped up to the 750 then the 850 double pumper. I put on a nice polished aluminum high rise intake and a set of headers, traction bars, and all manner of other bolt on junk that was supposed to make adifference.

I planed the heads and put in the'racing' copper head gaskets. That made me have to get the pistons with the dents in the top for the valves to clear. I tried several different cams in it always trying to get that last bit of horsepower.

I even added a nitrous oxide set up, back then they didn't have the huge tanks they have nowadays. It was about the size of those double CO2 cartridges the paint ball folks use.

It only took a few seconds for it to burn but boy did it make a difference in my ET.

So yeah, I used to be into drag racing a bit. I also did a lot of illegal street racing. I rarely lost a street race, mainly because the other guys would wait till the flag dropped to do their burn outs. Cost them seconds every time.

I moved out of Wisconsin to Illinois where I live now in '78 when I got divorced. My 'new' wife and I used to go down to Cordova to watch the world series of drag racing when they had it and usually at least a few other times through the summer but its been many years since we went. It just all got so expensive. I still like to see the nitro burners and sitting down wind of those beasts has its own pluses.