1C/1803 is in Sands speedcar, maybe I got it wrong again, I thought it was in Reg Hunt's car too, someone will tell us if that is correct or not, David B .........can you help us?
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Sands car, south Australia VOC rally 10 years back
Any body know how it went on S.U. Carb's ?.
I tried them on my bike a long time ago, It made the Engine So Smooth !!, At slow running, But I could not keep the pistons up when reved, I think it needs a Big Balance pipe between the manifolds ?. Cheers Bill.
Bill I had the opposite problem on a hotted up 1275 Mini years ago, when I installed a pair of 40 mm delortos' on it, I couldn't get it to idle. Seems some carb's are designed for multi cylinders and bike carby's one per cylinder..........Go figure.
The Triumph Thunderbird ( from 1952 to 1958) was the only bike that ran well on SU carbs (Now I wait to hear about the 'other one 
perhaps thats because it ran on a split manifold maybe the piston in the SU doesn't like the wild variation in pressure from a single cylinder and why they sometimes appear on supercharged plots
perhaps thats because it ran on a split manifold maybe the piston in the SU doesn't like the wild variation in pressure from a single cylinder and why they sometimes appear on supercharged plots
The vanwall race car engine which was 4 manx nortons in a inline four had single carbs, even stranger....
We had a small sports car which should have had S.U.s come into the shop, It had Monoblocs !, It was as rough as old boots !.
Vibrac, You are right, I forgot I had one of those, Ran well. Shame about the Bike !!.
Vibrac, You are right, I forgot I had one of those, Ran well. Shame about the Bike !!.
They look like GP's but then it looks like an injector pump at the front.
So John Surtees did race a Norton in 1961 he raced the Vanwall, at the BRDC Silverstone meeting.