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Raydar
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DEC 03, 06:47 PM
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hyperv6
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DEC 03, 07:30 PM
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82-T/A [At Work]
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DEC 03, 07:34 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
You may know this already, but crossfire injection also came on the '82 'vette.
I just gave a quick glance at the article, but some issues were addressed here. Not very informative, however.
https://bryansgarage.com/co...crossfire-injection/ |
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Yeah, it's an awesome system. People trash it, but I was really excited to have CFI. I think it's bad-ass. I used to have it on my 82 TransAm as well. I was a big fan of it.
Fun fact... it uses TWO 84-86 Fiero Iron Duke throttle bodies also.
The unfortunate thing though is that for 1984, they did all kinds of wild stuff with the air cleaner, so it was literally a one-year thing. The air cleaner looks like an 80s space ship, and rather than use two Fiero Iron Duke air filters, the Corvette one uses some crazy big one.
First page says it's in stock... then when I click on it, it says, "Out of Stock"
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82-T/A [At Work]
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DEC 04, 03:11 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
Fiero people have, by necessity, learned how to "make - or make do". Where most Corvette owners have any needed parts readily available. All they need is money.
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I want to respond to this again... not trying to make fun of people, but it seems like the majority of the people on the CorvetteForums (C4) are totally non-technical.
I don't know how many threads I've responded to where someone just says something like... "Car runs rough," or... "some bad thing just happened..." and they have no concept of how to diagnose or to even explain the problem. And then you provide some feedback and things on what they can or should check to further diagnose the problem... and they're clueless. I don't want to persist stereotypes... but it seems like many of the Corvette people just buy these cars to drive, and don't really have any clue what to do when they break.
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cliffw
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DEC 04, 03:41 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
People trash it, but I was really excited to have CFI. I think it's bad-ass. I used to have it on my 82 TransAm as well. I was a big fan of it.
Fun fact... it uses TWO 84-86 Fiero Iron Duke throttle bodies also.
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Fun fact. Weber designed side draft carburetors in the late 1800's. Weber made them to better harvest power from both sides of an engine.
I had a 65 Volkswagen Beetle Baja Bug with side draft Webers. A friend of mine had a 57 Chevy Bel Air with the same.
The lost art and black magic of Weber Sidedraft carbs
Most people can not adjust a carburetor. With my 82 Kawasaki 750, I had four carbs which needed to be synchronized.
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cliffw
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DEC 07, 01:39 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
Weber designed side draft carburetors in the late 1800's. Weber made them to better harvest power from both sides of an engine. |
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82-T/A [At Work]
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DEC 07, 06:51 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
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That's pretty nice...
My 73 VW Bus was supposed to have a set of carburetors... one on each side like that too.
I even had them, they were Carters I think, not sure. But I didn't feel like dealing with it, and it already had a Webber 2-bbl carburetor on it with a set of runners, so I left that on there, and it was much easier to tune.
I didn't have any of the tools (water / flow gauge) or any of that stuff to tune them... and I got like $400 bucks for the set... and I wasn't making a whole lot back then, so I was like... hell yes.
One of these days, when I get the 73 VW Bus out of storage and decide to finish the restoration on it, I'll probably go with something much nicer than that. I have a 2000cc Porsche 914 motor that's running... so I'll rebuild that and do something nicer... like what you have up there.
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Raydar
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DEC 22, 07:57 PM
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Kind of unrelated. Kind of...
A few years ago, I briefly owned an SD4 Fiero. It had a pair of Dellorto (similar to Weber) carbs on it.
It was a thing of beauty, but it ran like... ca-ca.
I knew nothing about those carbs, so I bought a manifold and a 2 barrel Holley. Ran just fine with only an idle mixture/speed adjustment.
I ended up selling the car, unfortunately.
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