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General Category => Maintenance => Topic started by: Dave-Tas on February 17, 2014, 05:58:46 PM

Title: Carb slide
Post by: Dave-Tas on February 17, 2014, 05:58:46 PM
There's an old trick of drilling an extra hole oposite the one there to make the slide lift easier, has this been tried on the FJs.
Title: Re: Carb slide
Post by: Pat Conlon on February 17, 2014, 06:25:24 PM
Vacuum (caused by air velocity) raises the slide.
If you drill a extra hole in the slide the slide will rise slower, not faster.
DynoJet as part of their stage 3 jet kits used a softer slide spring, allowing the slides to pop up faster, this can/will cause problems with mid range (rich) fueling and stumbling, so to compensate DynoJet used to recommend to drill out, enlarging the hole, in a effort to slow the slides down.

if you want your slides to rise quicker, address the slide spring, but be careful what you wish for.
I would not recommend drilling the slides, unless you want to JB weld up the holes you drill.
Take a look at the cost for replacement slides...ouch.

Title: Re: Carb slide
Post by: Dave-Tas on February 17, 2014, 07:14:46 PM
Okay sounds good, looks like I had it backwards.
Title: Re: Carb slide
Post by: movenon on February 17, 2014, 08:35:12 PM
Be more than happy to trade 4 DynoJet springs for 4 stock springs....
George