<VV> Turbo Carb

[Duane, Jim E.]

Hey, isn't this a hobby?  The YH can be made to provide satisfying response/performance if you spend a little time understanding how it works, do some investigative work, and do cause-and effect troubleshooting.  You can be "ZEN" with it. Some of you motorcycle tinkerers will understand!   
The Blackhawk rods/jets, new gaskets, accel pump, ball-type float valve, nice clean carb, unrestricted fuel return line, fuel pressure regulator, the manual from Carter, Clarks tech tips, and the wide experiences of this forum are all "tools" you should be aware of.  It's what keeps me interested in my 'Vair.  Go fix'em and drive!

Jim Duane
'66 180 Corsa CVT  "it's all good!"
Colonial Corvairs
CORSA

Honor those Vets this Monday. 

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Secular
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:47 AM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Turbo Carb


  Very helpful info at:

  http://tinyurl.com/blackhawk-faq

  and:

  http://www.corvair.com/gfx/53.jpg

  Regards,


  Tony Irani

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:15 PM
Subject: <VV> Turbo Carb


> 
> 
> To say the YH carb is a POS or that it can't be made to work right is defeatest and misleading at the least.  Sure there are several better carbs.  Get a yh right and it will allow your low compression turbo to idle with the best 95 twin carb for a half hr at a stretch without loading up.  Open the throttle and it will pass a surprising amouut of controled fuel air mixture for the size of its venturi.  Educated tinkering with its metering rods can give a smooth flow of power from idle to over 5000 rpm with no problem.  The fact that it limits ultimate engine output was planned by the engineers to save the engine from destruction by the owner.  The 150 carb is more conservative than the bigger 180 of course.  Even a high output turbo can't pull enough air through a 180 carb to make a beast out of the engine.  Good performance is about all you can hope for, with emphisis on "good", not exceptional. 
> I am defensive about the Generals economical choice of a carb for the turbo.  It does a good job for what he spent for it.  If you say it is a POS then you better come armed with some facts.  I mean other than you aren't mechanic enough to make it work as designed.    Smitty
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