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<blockquote data-quote="Hugo Myatt" data-source="post: 94841" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>When I swapped the standard but worn out original carbs on my Rapide for Mk 11s an established Vincent expert made me two beautiful inlet stubs that connected them directly to the heads. However I discovered that stopping for an interlude of one pint of fine ale was sufficient to make the machine a pig to re-start. Two pints and it was raring to go again but I would not be as the looming threat of the Road Traffic Act would be hanging over me. I reverted to less grandiose stubs with the Amal rubber connector and the problem disappeared. I reckon the rubber connector acted as an insulator against heat transfer and prevented the vapourising of the fuel in the float chamber. With the original standard carbs the float chamber was semi-remote and on a long arm so that heat transference was not such a a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugo Myatt, post: 94841, member: 99"] When I swapped the standard but worn out original carbs on my Rapide for Mk 11s an established Vincent expert made me two beautiful inlet stubs that connected them directly to the heads. However I discovered that stopping for an interlude of one pint of fine ale was sufficient to make the machine a pig to re-start. Two pints and it was raring to go again but I would not be as the looming threat of the Road Traffic Act would be hanging over me. I reverted to less grandiose stubs with the Amal rubber connector and the problem disappeared. I reckon the rubber connector acted as an insulator against heat transfer and prevented the vapourising of the fuel in the float chamber. With the original standard carbs the float chamber was semi-remote and on a long arm so that heat transference was not such a a problem. [/QUOTE]
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