<VV> Turbo Carb

[Ron]

Weren't they used on the Nash Ambassador?  The Ambassador was always known 
as a fine running car.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Turbo Carb


> At 11:15 PM 5/21/2009, Smitty Smith wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> Kinda makes me wonder why Carter made the things for decades if they
> don't work right.
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> There's that old magazine article that managed to extract well over
> 200hp from a turbo engine using that YH... and mostly stock GM
> parts.   I thought that was pretty good, using 1960s tech.
>
> By the way:   That YH is not a very small 1xbbl carb.   There's a
> respectable size hole through it.
>
>
>
>>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.
>
>
>
> I always managed to get them to work, by hook or by crook, one way or
> the other.   Thus, I never felt the need to change out a YH for
> something else.
>
>
> ...except another YH.
>
> "Everybody gots one..."
>
>
>
>
> tony..
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