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06-06-2021, 02:53 PM | #33178 |
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06-06-2021, 03:11 PM | #33179 |
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A 1971.5 Ford Pinto was the first new car my father ever bought. Bright red, black interior with a black vinyl top-- it still had the hatch, but with half-glass instead of the later full-glass.
He drove it for DECADES-- even took it to Japan for five years on a military assignment. It pretty much drove terribly until we finally figured out that Ford had half-arsed the smog controls to be able to sell it in CA. We pulled all of that junk off and put in a new carburator-- it was like a completely different car after that. It was also the car that I learned how to drive a MT with. My dad took me to the local (empty) community college parking lot on a weekend, demonstrated how to work the gears, got out and went over to a bench with a paper and said "Come back and pick me up when you figure it out." A few months later, I got to learn how to change a clutch as well. He did get rear-ended on the way home from work in the mid-80's (before the gas tank shield recall). You'd have thought he would have gone up like a buddhist monk, but he just had a backyard mechanic straighten out where he got crumpled, repainted it and pressed on. I drove that car all the way through college, and that's what taught me to be a mechanic. Dad would help pay for parts, but not labor. If I didn't want to walk, I had to learn how to fix it. That baby 4-banger was about as simple of an engine as you could get without using hamsters, so it was a good car for a (pre-internet) kid to learn on. All in all, dad really got his money's worth out of it-- it had its flaws, but it did our family well for almost 20 years. R.
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06-06-2021, 04:15 PM | #33180 |
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06-06-2021, 04:24 PM | #33181 |
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06-06-2021, 06:26 PM | #33182 | |
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The improvement in performance was very significant, to say the least. Yes, the Federal and even worse California emission controls just killed that nice, little engine. After the rebuild and upgrades, not only did it perform better, it got better gas mileage to boot. I bought a manual for the Weber and learned how to tune it for that engine. I ran the primary as lean as possible and still have decent drivability and complimented that with a richer secondary so engine was happy at full throttle. It was a lot of fun.
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06-07-2021, 11:26 AM | #33186 |
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That does ring a bell.
Funny thing happened regarding the 2-barrel Weber. I bought the carburetor from the shop that rebuilt my engine and I couldn't wait to get it installed. During the first drive I was really thrilled at the boost in performance. Then I noticed that every time I nailed the throttle there would be some hesitation. At first I thought it was the accelerator pump, but that appeared to be working properly. After some research (the manual) I discovered that the shop had sold me the wrong carburetor for that particular application. The float bowl was on the rear of the carb. The bowl is supposed to be on the front of the carb. On the rear, gasoline flow momentarily surges away from the spray bar, causing an overly lean mixture. They got me the proper carb and all was well.
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