04-15-2008, 06:49 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Hickory,
NC
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 427SC w/427so, ERA GT #2002
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The standoff is a good case for running an air cleaner or housing on the carburetors. When running a Super-V at Daytona in the early '70s we found that the standoff was blown away at high speed . . . carbs projected out in the airstream . . . on the high banks, leaning out the engine . . . not good. When jetting for the high banks, the engine was way too rich on the road course. Solution was to install a ram-air housing on top of the carbs to provide some pressure on top of the carbs, but also to contain and use the A/F mixture (standoff) that would otherwise be blown away. Car was much faster and fuel consumption was less.
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"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough HORSEPOWER." Mark Donohue
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