Strombergs .. Removing the emission control
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:51 pm
Looking at the various engine bay pictures in these forums
such as this one:
elan-f15/cooling-system-expansion-tank-installed-t21383.html
I see that a number of people with emission controlled Strombergs have removed the over-head air heater pipes and blanked off the ports for those pipes.
How does that work then? I presume you have removed the throttle butterflies nearest the block, but doesn't that leave lots of holes in inconvenient places and doesn't it mean that there is no balance pipe between the two inlet manifolds (see workshop manual page L34)?
Would it not be simpler to just remove the whole adaptor block thingy. Will the engine run on Strombergs satisfactorily without the balance pipe?
That emission control system is really weird isn't it, effectively it makes it into a single carb engine at low revs.
such as this one:
elan-f15/cooling-system-expansion-tank-installed-t21383.html
I see that a number of people with emission controlled Strombergs have removed the over-head air heater pipes and blanked off the ports for those pipes.
How does that work then? I presume you have removed the throttle butterflies nearest the block, but doesn't that leave lots of holes in inconvenient places and doesn't it mean that there is no balance pipe between the two inlet manifolds (see workshop manual page L34)?
Would it not be simpler to just remove the whole adaptor block thingy. Will the engine run on Strombergs satisfactorily without the balance pipe?
That emission control system is really weird isn't it, effectively it makes it into a single carb engine at low revs.