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i couldnt find anymore, but then again, its hard to sometimes when there are so many vac lines. if the vac advance is toast, what can ido about it?

well, the brat runs, kinda. i got it to idle around 1000-1200rpm and it will actually rev when i give it some gas, but there is a bit of a hesitation from when i press the pedal and the engine actually reving. i also pulled the hose for the vac advance off of the hard line and there was absolutely no difference in how the car was running. im guessing that its gummed up or just buggered. i also think that i need to get the carb tuned a bit better than what ive done with it. im not sure what needs done now, i is running closer to where it should, but its running rough. i think the fact that one of the plugs gotcracked by my friend when he was taking it out. i think that the mixture and idle both need to be set properly.

nice, very nice

thanks for the write up GD.

part number?

interesting.

i lust that, i can only hope that my brat comes out half as cool as that.

exactly!! its like the guiy that lives near where i used to work, has a bunch of old cars rottign in his yard, including a really nice, or was nice, porche 911. he refuses to sell it cause he thinks that it will be worth a lot more in the future. dude doesnt understand that rust isnt worth anything.

so yeah, i got the brat to start last night, but it had an air leak from one of the intake manifold bolts being loose. it would idle at about 2k and stall if i pressed the gas and rev if i blocked the carb. i fixed the loose bolt last night before calling it a night. today affter work, i got out there and tried starting it again, it took a bit of cranking, but it finally kicked over. but ran really poorly and wouldnt stay running. i adjusted the idle screw and turned hte distributor, it started trying to run after that. but it would idle at about 600 for a few seconds and then rev to about 4-5k and then just die. so far, no adjustments ive made have fixed that. i am running out of ideas. especially since i still know next to nothing about tuning carburetors.

its not that rare, well, maybe in pa. i will admit, it will be hard to upgrade the brakes and handling without going for a 5 lug swap. they are a lot more fun to play with hen modded as well. i had all sorts of stuff done to my rx. it was a blast to drive.

we need to get together online some time and brain storm for my cookout this summer. id really like to see the people that were at carlisle at my meet. and when i get home, i should be able to actually try to find the uplink cable for my camera, so ill get my pics up tonight if i can.

might not be a bad idea to start a new thread for the carlisle pics.

i sshould have begged someone for an extra two sleeping spots, lol. jessica and i wante to come back up for sunday mornig to see everyone again before you all went home, but i couldnt be bothered to get up at 5:30-6 to make it up there intime to try for breakfast. but yeah, it was fun. pity i missed out on just about all the show though.

i definatly had fun, even though i was only there for a few hours. i need to get in touch with some people that i talked to there, but as any one that knows me can tell you, im horrid when it comes two remembering names. i guess what i am getting as would be that i need to figure out who i was talking to about the spare ea82t that i have. one of these days ill upload my pics, but first i have to find the cable for the camera.

the plugs are brand new, have 0 miles on em/ i took em out the other day, mnade sure they were clean and dry. pretty easy job since there was no carbon or anything to trap and hold "crud"

the black box is the fuel pump relay, but it also controls the pump as well. i finally got my friend over today to look at carb. he did a complete tear down of hte carb, including the parts i couldnt get apart. cleaned everything in and out and put all the small bits back in leaving me to bolt it all together and get it back in the car. it was getting gas to the carb, but i think it just needs some fine tuning now to get it running. i think that i need to adjust the mixture and idle controls. it wanted to start this afternoon when i got it together, but its like it just wasnt getting enough fuel, i sputtered a couple times and while cranking, it tried to run on its own for about half a second. its close

interesting, but i doubt that we would have seen an of the imporvments in the last few yers of production since we didnt get em after 87 i think. would be cool to get better parts though. i wasthinking about finding a way to make fiberglass or carbon fiber bits for my brat, but it will have to wait until i get other projects finished.

no idea yet, lol. it was nearly 11 when i get the carb back on. but i was able to get a lot of coolant from the cylinders. only problem though, it looks like it might be a ,amifold gasket thats leaking, not the coolant passage at the carb. there was only coolant in cylinders 2 and 4, 1 and 3 were bone dry.so be fore i do anything tomarrow, i am going to look into getting a new set of intake gaskets for it. i owuld like to get ahold of the fuel pump control box for the car, that way i dont havet o worry abuot hte switch i have hooked up at the moment.

well, it was definatly hydrolocked, lol i figured out what i did, i found the coolant passage under hte carb, but i had no idea it was coolant. i thought it was some kind of air passage, like a vaccuum passage or something like that, i had no idea, lol. but yeah, i had cut out a sectionbetween the airway and coolant passage in the gasket cause i though that was how my original gasket was set up, turned out to be that it had just crumbled at that spot when i pulled the carb.

i dont listen to the weather reports at all anymore, they have all been wrong for my area for at least the last month.

actually, that part of the gasket stuck to the car and was a mofo to get off, lol. i am going to be working on it after i eat here, so maybe i can figure it out before tomarrow, not that it matters really. but yeah, i hope its nothing major,.

hmmm, yeah, thats the plan for when i get home tonight, with any luck, i can figure it out and get it running agian.... either way, im still depressed, i was all about getting it registered this morning so i could drive it around and then take it to the show, oh well, its not the end of the world. things could always be worse, right? ill update tonight once ive had a chace to get under the hod and mess around a bit.

hmmm, that is odd, maybe that was the cause of the rust on the underside of the carb base. there was a small depression in it, looked like it was just something left from casting or something, i guess thats the coolant passage everyone is talking about. either way, when i was taking the carb off, there was no coolant that came out of there.

i have no idea, but mine didnt seem to have any kind of coolant passage into the carb, the only holes there were the two air passages and the hole for the bolt that hold the two bottom sections together. either way, there was no coolant that came out when i pulled the carb. last i checked, the radiator was full of coolant and there is none in the oil and no smoke the few times i had it runnig on starting fluid. my theory is that maybe i dumped way too much fuel into the engine due to the fuel puimp not being controlled by its relay box, its hooked to a toggle switch right now since that fuel pump control box wasnt workign at all. when i get home from work inabout an hour and a half, i am going to try to figure it out some more. ill pull the plugs out and see if anything comes out when i try to crank it again. i hope its nothing major though.

hmmm, i dont think it would be coolant in the cylenders, but it could be fuel. ill try the spark plug trick when i get home from work.