Pictures of the carb project and Video

[lostforawhile]

interesting project I'm working on for the carbs setup. since I'm running liquid filled gauges,I needed a vent line for each gauge to equalize the pressure,the problem is that when the gauges are horizontal,opening the vent holes allows the glycerine in the gauges to run out. my solution was to build a breather system for the gauges.
this consists of a mounting plate,a round machined tube with a vent hole in the bottom side,and the associated hard lines to connect to the gauges. this represents about 30 hours of work so far,I also integrated the lines that go to the advance/retarded diaphram on the distributor. my goal with the dual carb setup is to not show any rubber vaccume lines if possible. all connections to the temp/vaccume valves will be on the bottom side of the manifold. all I want visible are hard lines or braided line. I will try and get a picture of this with it installed on the manifold,the paint is drying right now. it's easier to appreciate how it all fits when it's installed

[Legend_master]

Good fix, I swear that car is going to look like barny when your done .

[lostforawhile]

finished

the engine has been purple for a long time,i already had a dodge aspen[POS]painted green with a paint roller and that had big purple spots,called it barney the dodge dinasaur

[Civic Accord Honda]

barny car FTW

lol any good job

[Legend_master]

finished

the engine has been purple for a long time

I already knew that . How long do you have untill the carbs are on the car and functional?

[carotman]

You're soooo dedicated to this car. I can tell I'm dedicated but you're on top of my lift. I was recently showing pictures of your project to my girl and telling her how much time you spent on this car!

Can't wait to see those carbs installed. You got to find a way to show us a video of those.

[lostforawhile]

I already knew that . How long do you have untill the carbs are on the car and functional?

it's going to be a while waiting on money too. I still have to take the manifold somewhere and have it finished up being tigged. when everything is done and ready to go on the car,I still have to send the carbs off to z therapy and have them exchanged. just lots of little pieces and parts to make,working on a support system for the manifold/carbs,these are heavy!! probably not more then all the factory crap assembled though. thought about building a brace off the three valve cover bolts, then a couple of heim joints to an aluminum bar off of the manifold adaptor plate. anything behind the apator plate is bolted on with eight 5/16 bolts,just want to makew sure the plate and the welds on the manifold are supported.

[TWOLOUDNPROUD]

bump

[lostforawhile]

still working on it,thanks for the bump, spent 4 hours in the machine shop at work saturday working on the throttle cable bracket assembly, got it done,now it will connect to a factory cable. took a bunch of pictures,but the only place to develop them is at Walmart and their photocenter has been down for over a week. when it gets fixed i will post them. have to figure out the choke cable itself,the one from the mazda is too short,i'm thinking lxi throttle cable will work,just have to modify the pedal end. then i'll make a bracket like i did for the throttle cable,should be easy now that the engineering is done. still haven't found a machine shop that can weld the manifold, need to take a trip to atlanta to see my parents,there are a ton of shops there. there isn't too much engineering to do, i need to find a junk cyl head with a valve cover,then i can bolt the manifold to it and make the brackets i need. the accord is down right now anyway due to an exploded cv axle and a leaking heater core. I also had to modify the hard tubing i talked about in this post, it got in the way of the throttle cable,i had to strip the paint off of it,rebend it,and make some new brackets. i still need to solder the tubing to the brackets.

[lostforawhile]

well here's a pic of the bracket,sorry about the quality picture came out blurry,had to run it through imagestation,still need an lxi throttle cable for the choke if someone has one lying around they don't want. just pm me or send me a mail through the site.

[russiankid]

I cannot wait to see these on the car. Great work. You really spend a great amount of time thinking it through and doing quality work.

[lostforawhile]

well here is another pic i found,i had to strip all the paint from the hard lines,i have to resolder them in a different position. this is to clear the throttle cable. i made a new bracket at the same time i made the throttle cable bracket. you can see it in the picture before this one. i have to solder the bracket to the lines,then repaint them.

[lostforawhile]

bumped this back up,in case anyone finds an lxi throttle cable. would like to get busy on the machine work to get the choke cable done.

[lostforawhile]

got the choke knob in,it doesn't look that big from the front,but this is the assembly from the mazda,it's a lot bigger on the back side. very tight fit.I already had a half inch hole there for a switch,but i had to start a 7/8 hole partway across it. i couldn't do it on the drill press.the bit would have walked,so i had to take the entire console apart,clamp it in the milling machine,and mill it out. there is zero clearance between the bottom of the choke pull and the back bracing in the console. I was going to take some technical pictures,but i ran out of film. I will take some later. I'm going to put the grommet in the firewall tomorrow,just to see how much cable i've got to work with. another small step done.sorry if the car looks messy,i can vaccume the floor and it looks dirty in five minutes. the carpet is due to be replaced soon anyway. everything looks dusty,thats because it's pollen central here and it's simply impossible to keep the dust down. the red lamp on the panel tells you that the choke is pulled by the way.

[MessyHonda]

il bet it will come in handy on those cold days.

[lostforawhile]

well these don't work like a convential choke, they actually move the needle in the carb to ritchen the mixture, it's handy to have even when hot starting,with these big SUs you need a little bit of choke to start the car even on hot days. I remember these carbs off one of my Z cars, i'm sure they will act the same way on the hatch. speaking of the dust,i'm suffering big time,i usually don't get allergies bad,but this year is horrible.we've gotten like a half inch of rain in two months,and the wind is kicking up big time,has been for weeks,thats why we are having those really bad wildfires just south of here. the dust is covering everything,even inside the house.

[frantik]

you pull that out right before you wanna jump shit right?

[AccordB20A]

yay manual choke ftw.. auto chokes are gay and are half the reason why accord carbs suck cock

[HondaBoy]

well i didnt even think about it but i think my 280Z parts car still has the choke cable in it. i was thinking of doing exactly what you have done when i got the parts car. using the SU's on a modded manifold and what not for the accord. they have been sitting in my garage for quite a while now, of course in need of a good cleaning and rebuild to work. well, looks good, now it can run decently i guess.

[A18A]

yay manual choke ftw.. auto chokes are gay and are half the reason why accord carbs suck cock

ahahahah i completely agree

[Estimated Prophet]

Nice work.

[lostforawhile]

you pull that out right before you wanna jump shit right?

I see you figured out what the altimeter is for.

[frantik]

[1ajs]

nice job lost


you got a drought also lol in manitoba i think they have only had 2mm of rain this month atack of the wasps 2007...........

[lostforawhile]

ok finally some pictures of some of the new projects
I believe i posted about this before,I had to extensivly modify the choke pull assembly i got from the mazda,in order to make it be able to work,with my SU setup. I got rid of all the guts inside of the choke pull assembly,made a new rod that goes all the way through the part,and extends ouside of it, this is vs. the factory cable that was attached to it. this will link to the choke cable externally. I wanted to keep the choke warning switch,so i had to redesign a new plate activation switch. also the original guide plates wouldn't work any more,so i had to design an external system for the rod. this consists of a guide block and a guide bushing. the rod is 1/4 inch or .250, I reamed the guide bushing to .003 oversize,that means it's only three thousands of an inch bigger then the rod.
here's a picture of the back side of the center console






the articulated choke linkage thingy-mc-bobber-whatever you call it