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looks the vintage business, nice work.Not sure on the performance side of things
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It's a shame they're not handed the other way round - it would be better with the float chambers at the front ...
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Looks the part. The gaskets between the manifolds and inlet to carbs will give some insulation, a small aluminium heat shield curling under the float chambers may also help. A throttle linkage will be your next problem, is 'open' in a forward or rearwards pulling motion? It looks rearward to me?
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I don't see any obvious reason why it wouldn't go alright once 'tuned' - set-up would be the tricky bit.
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05-03-2019, 05:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2019, 06:20 PM by Steve Jones.)
As Mike Costigan says, above, the float chambers should be to the front, not the rear. Both pairs of carburettors are made for engines that have them mounted on the Off-Side. Mounted on the Near-Side as these are, they will be constantly trying to fight gravity - apart from when going down hill.
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I recall reading Solex literature of the period claiming that it didn't matter if the float chamber was ahead or behind.
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Solex carburettor's were available with left or right hand float chambers.
I agree with Steve and Mike that the float chamber should be to the front otherwise starvation can occur when hillclimbing.
Obviously I don't have any problems setting up Solex's and am now a worldwide ambassador for them.
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Solex carburettors can be tricky. It can't be a coincidence that many (most?) Meadows 4ED applications originally fitted with Solex carbs are now running with SUs. Having been there, done that, with a single Solex I fear that setting up a twin pair could be something to give you sleepless nights!