Thursday, June 04, 2009

Hessisch around the corner



After a lot of troubleshooting on the ancient abarth carburator kit, I finally got it running perfectly last night. The carburators on this kit was not so straight foreward as expected. They seem to be a Solex 32 PBIC type, made in CSR. They are very fragile, and I had to repair some cracks in the housing, and litterally glue some of the parts together with heavy-duty loctite. After I got hold of the correct rebuild kit from Stoddard, the carbs acted like they should. Last night I put the finishing touches on the timing, and the engine now runs well.

The engine feels a little more rapid in acceleration compared to the stock set up, and it pulls really well uphills. The sound of the dual carburators do also add to the vintage racing feel =)
The front end has got some adjustment, and been lifted to more 50-ish height. It helped a lot on the riding comfort =)

We cross our fingers that the zwitter will be ready for HO take off in a couple of weeks.