High five to Lars!!!!!
02-08-2017, 09:29 PM
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High five to Lars!!!!!
About 4 years ago I had Lars rebuild my Holley 650 Street Avenger. I sent him the carb, he overhauled it and sent it back. All I did was install it and drive (plug and play). I have made -0- carb adjustments during the past 4 years and it's been running SUPER during that time. I sent my Vette to my mechanic for a professional tune up and he called and said all he had to do was adjust the timing. When he pulled two plugs, they looked like I had a fuel injection system and not a carb...he decided that I did not need new plugs...they were in perfect shape! That says A LOT about Lars and his work. THANKS LARS!!!
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02-08-2017, 11:30 PM
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Looks like I got lucky...
Glad to hear the car is running well for you and that you're having some fun with it - that's what it's all about!
Lars
Glad to hear the car is running well for you and that you're having some fun with it - that's what it's all about!
Lars
02-09-2017, 01:07 AM
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When you're that good, you really don't need 'luck'....
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02-09-2017, 06:47 AM
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Most of the time, luck is not involved.....luck is having a skill and taking advantage of ever opportunity to use that skill to its fullest....
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02-09-2017, 09:31 AM
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Stuart's Holley was actually an interesting build - there are few carbs that I can specifically remember after 4 years... His Holley S/A was running lean, as they all do, but his was really bad... I always do a first test run of the carb on the run engine in the "stock" configuration, just to verify the baseline. The carb was running like a New York garbage truck, but I kept it "forced running" while verifying float levels and mixture screw settings. Idle mixture was off-the-scale lean, and the carb finally had a violent lean-mixture backfire which caught the run stand on fire. 
Luckily, I have a fire extinguisher within arm's reach of the power kill switch... But the entire carb had to be torn down and run through the hot tank again to get it cleaned up - along with a one-hour cleanup of the shop area. After a little re-jetting and "creative setup," the second test run was quite a bit more successful..
Lars
Luckily, I have a fire extinguisher within arm's reach of the power kill switch... But the entire carb had to be torn down and run through the hot tank again to get it cleaned up - along with a one-hour cleanup of the shop area. After a little re-jetting and "creative setup," the second test run was quite a bit more successful.. Lars
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02-09-2017, 09:47 AM
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for Lars. Let's make it I've read some of his papers on carb tuning and timing which has been invaluable in my engine build and tuning. Thanks. Lars!
02-09-2017, 11:33 AM
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Stuart's Holley was actually an interesting build - there are few carbs that I can specifically remember after 4 years... His Holley S/A was running lean, as they all do, but his was really bad... I always do a first test run of the carb on the run engine in the "stock" configuration, just to verify the baseline. The carb was running like a New York garbage truck, but I kept it "forced running" while verifying float levels and mixture screw settings. Idle mixture was off-the-scale lean, and the carb finally had a violent lean-mixture backfire which caught the run stand on fire. Luckily, I have a fire extinguisher within arm's reach of the power kill switch... But the entire carb had to be torn down and run through the hot tank again to get it cleaned up - along with a one-hour cleanup of the shop area. After a little re-jetting and "creative setup," the second test run was quite a bit more successful..
Lars
Luckily, I have a fire extinguisher within arm's reach of the power kill switch... But the entire carb had to be torn down and run through the hot tank again to get it cleaned up - along with a one-hour cleanup of the shop area. After a little re-jetting and "creative setup," the second test run was quite a bit more successful.. Lars
Also, did you use a dry chemical or a CO2 extinguisher on that fire? At first I thought you may of grabbed a can of alternate fire extinguisher liquid.
02-09-2017, 12:04 PM
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02-09-2017, 04:31 PM
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I think Thomas Jefferson's quote lost a letter over the years. That sounds more like the definition for 'Pluck'.
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02-10-2017, 09:41 AM
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Fake news comes to the Corvette forum! Lol.
we've hit a new low spreading fake news and quoting Thomas Jefferson in the same thread,how far have we sunk?
lower than the float level of a pro stock with 3 p.s.I of fuel pressure that's how low.
02-10-2017, 12:17 PM
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There's another photo somewhere of that hammer punched through the quarter panel... right before Les tackled me and strangled me as shown above. Now, how can that be fake...?
That's correct. I keep that hammer in a drawer marked, "QuadraJet Tuning Tool."
That's correct. I keep that hammer in a drawer marked, "QuadraJet Tuning Tool."
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02-10-2017, 06:37 PM
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I don't know WTF the fake news comment is about Lars, but I think I also still have that other pic of you and Les somewhere!!! Gotta search the hard drives for that one!!
02-10-2017, 07:02 PM
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Well, if you used that quadrajets adjusting tool on.the fender of a Corvette then I'm mistaken about fake.news . And accept my congratulations as I've at times.wanted.to take a hammer to a Corvette.lol