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Peter Coomaraswamy

Peter Coomaraswamy

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Since putting on the new Webers I have been blinded by the obnoxious chrome glare of the air cleaners. I performed some "wrinkle" surgery and throw this out there for your consideration and further if, given the work performed so far, I should do the valve cover as well. Comments only please, I am daily insulted enough :-)
 

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IMHO your engine is spectacular and I wouldn't paint the valve cover and would also skip the roundels on the cleaner covers. If you don't like the chrome shiney perhaps matte it up with some steel wool or somesuch to more closely jive with the valve cover look? Paint on engines usually doesn't last very long.
 
Thanks guys, sometimes I think I have a little too much time on my hands but you have given me some ideas-I'll post tomorrow, and I like the idea of the non -color roundels, much classier, maybe if I go over the wrinkle finish with a high-temp mat silver to simulate aluminum (thus matching the VC) and use the colorless roundels and leave the valve cover as is I will have the desired result.

Peter
 
If I were adding the roundels I'd match the orientation with the valve cover one...but I'm a little ocd in that dept.
 
Don't forget the clamps on the fuel line in your excitement!
On my car the air box is Crinkle finish and the valve cover is powder coated Satin. I like it.
 
Looks great and I agree with the other comments.

Just curious, did you go with these filters for tuning purposes, i.e. because the OEM filter housing was too restrictive?
 
Stevehose said:
IMHO your engine is spectacular and I wouldn't paint the valve cover and would also skip the roundels on the cleaner covers. If you don't like the chrome shiney perhaps matte it up with some steel wool or somesuch to more closely jive with the valve cover look? Paint on engines usually doesn't last very long.
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+1 leave off the roundels.
 
adawil2002 said:
+1 leave off the roundels.
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+1 leave off the webers.
Always find it unfortunate when the M30 is downgraded from the Zeniths. I know I know, they have a bad reputation. But find a set that no one has messed with (yet), overhaul them carefully and they do absolutely everthing so well and for ever. The only thing that kills them is not driving the car for waay to long. If you don´t dirve your M30 car for waay too long you don´t deserve it anyway.

Oh, yes on the covers: I´d probably not want chrome on them either. Cormine in the engine bay tends to look cheap. But hte roundels are too much also. A I agree about mathcing them to those wonderfulla clean cylinder head and manifold surfaces. Paint them satin silver of go for stainless steel but unpolished.
 
You folks are a tough crowd- so now we're back to silver- I used caliper paint because I figured it would withstand the heat and matches-somewhat- the valve cover also removed the roundels. Bob, regarding the clamps- you must have been talking to SfDon- he's always bugging me about that stuff, Tod, the reason for the non stock air cleaners is that the Weber carbs sit higher and further back than the Zeniths which means the stock air filter housing jacks with the hood insulation and also hits the strut tower brace.

Again, thanks for the feedback
 

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Hi David, Not sure I see one either. On the set up I have there are only 2 vacuum tubes coming from the base of the carbs. They go to the distributor- sort of (they are really plugged) Where would the balance tube go on my set up?

Thanks
 
Connect the manifold vacuum side of each carb (the ports that are below the level of the throttle plates or in other words delivers high vacuum at idle).


Peter Coomaraswamy said:
Hi David, Not sure I see one either. On the set up I have there are only 2 vacuum tubes coming from the base of the carbs. They go to the distributor- sort of (they are really plugged) Where would the balance tube go on my set up?

Thanks
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Wow, thanks, of course this is now another operation I will have to perform ... again... but I have to put my screw-on adapter for the oil filter in place this weekend so while i'm in there! I really have to get back to my project about cataloging our posts- there is way too much information on the site not to. I will manufacture something and get that connection air tight. I also purchased one of those "digital"? carb-mates, so.. timing, carb tuning, balance tube manufacture, upper front cover sealing and ... I will do my best to document the carb process, my goal is to be just happy with the power output and have a smooth idle. (and no oil dribbles)
 
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