[ROVERNET - UK] Re: rovernet Digest, Vol 58, Issue 17Solex Carb

[phing]

Hi
The best thing to do with a Solex carb is  simplty to fix it properly .So strip it , rebuild it carefully {following the boy wonder 
solex sectioned drawings to understand the complexity of the accelerator pump and find the 4 mysterious glass ball valves buried 
inside it  }and refit it . You then have the grand daddy of a Webber , twin chokes on a single float chamber . My P3 ran like a 
steam locomotive after a comprehensive rebuild of its solex
Cheers
 Patrick
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Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Re: rovernet Digest, Vol 58, Issue 17


> Well, having owned a 100, and owning an SC, TC, 6B I can say:
> The 100 was ok.  I'd have liked a 110.
> The SC lacks.
> The TC lacks a bit; hence why Rover tried a 2500 5 cylinder motor.  They couldn't fit a 6 in, which is a real pity.
> The B is cruisey, just lopes along.
> I still say an 80 is a 100 in disguise... just waiting for a transplant...
> Oh, and Alan Tester ( a Rover stalwart who owned pretty much every model in his lifetime) once said:
> "The best thing you can do with a Solex carburettor is throw it in the bin."
>
> PVS
>
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> From: "Kent Kinard" <kkinard at wcc.net>
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> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Re: rovernet Digest, Vol 58, Issue 17
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>> Laine Colley wrote:
>>
>>>3) To the one who made the 'underpowered' comment: some people
>>>take pride in NOT overcompensating with our toys! ;)
>>>
>>>Laine
>>>
>> You Go Girl!
>>
>> But according to James Taylor, Spencer Wilks said from behind the wheel of the very first Buick powered P6, "William 
>> (Martin-Hurst), what have we here?  This is the very first Rover I have ever driven that wasn't underpowered."  That would 
>> include all P1,P3,P4, P5, and P6 up until 1966. Possibly, but not necessarily, excluding the 2000TC.  One can also suppose that 
>> William Martin-Hurst was sitting in the passenger seat with a very broad (graphic description deleted) grin on his face.  Very 
>> un-British, but as you pointed out, boys will be boys.  Thank goodness for the good sense, practicality and elegance provided by 
>> the better gender.
>>
>> Roverocketlauchedly,
>> Kent K.
>>
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