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From: Middle TN by way of KY, OH, VA, IL, CA, FL, NY, SC, HI
Originally Posted by Patrick03
Thanks for the compliments guys. "FME"? Is that an abbreviation for "F me"? 😀
No FME = Foreign Material Exclusion (common term in my industry - sorry).
However, F me is what I'd say immediately after dropping that nut into an open plenum (and then pray that it went down a runner with a shut intake valve)!
Be careful with your selection of FME devices. I know a guy who stuffed a shop towel in the intake for FME, he forgot to remove it and spent hours troubleshooting it. The towel was sucked into the runner on one side and one corner made it to the intake valve.
I use a piece of aluminum that I cut and drilled to the Holley pattern or even duct tape.
Be careful with your selection of FME devices. I know a guy who stuffed a shop towel in the intake for FME, he forgot to remove it and spent hours troubleshooting it. The towel was sucked into the runner on one side and one corner made it to the intake valve.
I use a piece of aluminum that I cut and drilled to the Holley pattern or even duct tape.
I stuffed a Teri Wipe??, a nylon thread reinforced shop towel in the open plenum manifold and forgot to remove it. It was late, dark and I needed the car to get to work in the morning. It chewed it up like a garbage disposal distributing it to almost all cylinders. Spewed some out the exhaust. I still have some in a zip lock bag as a memoir. After cleaning the plugs it ran another several years.
I just push a piece of cardboard down over the air cleaner stud.
I saw some proud owner of a C1 at a car show that left his air cleaner removed to show off his dual quads. I warned the guy that some mean b@stard just might drop a nickel down the bore when somebody wasn't looking.
He couldn't reinstall the air cleaner fast enough - its a sad commentary but there you have it.
BTW, (comma), here is my $7 dual quad carb holder I made out of a bathroom vanity drawer front, nylon spacers and some bolts. Maybe one of my best "home brew" devices ever !
Last edited by Frankie the Fink; Jun 21, 2017 at 03:42 PM.
Those were the old "solid" top steel Bud cans, with toilet bowl seals around cans at the intakes, with an alum. cookie sheet for the tools & spark plugs, screwed to the cans (all a one piece setup that just dropped into place).
And yes, the "firewall" was topped with a flatten Bud cans (we drank a lot of Bud, and was hoping for a sponsorship - settled for a local bar instead).
Plasticman
Last edited by Plasticman; Jun 22, 2017 at 12:48 PM.
Engine Bay Tool Holder
I stuffed a Teri Wipe??, a nylon thread reinforced shop towel in the open plenum manifold and forgot to remove it. It was late, dark and I needed the car to get to work in the morning. It chewed it up like a garbage disposal distributing it to almost all cylinders. Spewed some out the exhaust. I still have some in a zip lock bag as a memoir. After cleaning the plugs it ran another several years.
