Black Sooty Smoke

[BW2309]

Hey up Matrtyn. You ought to have called me bud. I would suggest that as stated, it needs a good boot-full or perhaps a re-tweak. Blak smoke is a sign of too much fuel (or too little air - blocked filter etc) so nothing to owrry about. Give me a call if u need to buddy

[Emjay]

Hi Ben

she ran fine over the welsh hills so not to worry too much

One thing that I have noticed. Now we have routed the rocker cover breather pipe back into the air filter assembly, the paper filter is starting to get covered in oil vapour. I wonder if this is ulimatley causing a problem with air flow and the mixture as the filter starts to clog up

[20vcqdriver]

Originally Posted by BW2309

Hey up Matrtyn. You ought to have called me bud. I would suggest that as stated, it needs a good boot-full or perhaps a re-tweak. Blak smoke is a sign of too much fuel (or too little air - blocked filter etc) so nothing to owrry about. Give me a call if u need to buddy

Or carb freezing issue. Had this all the time in my 1.9GT with weber carb many years ago as soon as the air temp dropped below 8 degrees and on any trip too. The fact that I had no diverter for the hot air from the exhaust was to blame.
Regards oiled up filter you could fit a catch tank to stop the heavier oil particles, has made a big difference to my car with far less oil coating the inlet pipework..

[Gaz]

Originally Posted by 20vcqdriver

Or carb freezing issue. Had this all the time in my 1.9GT with weber carb many years ago as soon as the air temp dropped below 8 degrees and on any trip too. The fact that I had no diverter for the hot air from the exhaust was to blame.
Regards oiled up filter you could fit a catch tank to stop the heavier oil particles, has made a big difference to my car with far less oil coating the inlet pipework..

would very much like to see your catch tank install.. do u have pictures? And where did u buy your catch tank from?

(p.s, sorry for the slight thread hi-jack)

cheers.

[Emjay]

Originally Posted by Gaz

would very much like to see your catch tank install.. do u have pictures? And where did u buy your catch tank from?

(p.s, sorry for the slight thread hi-jack)

cheers.

was just thinking the same thing Gaz

[20vcqdriver]

Made it from some scrap stainless steel tube in our workshop. Undertray is off at present so will whip it off and take some pics. Needs a clean anyway whilst car on SORN.
Pic is of a similar homemade one I had on the 7A engine (top right).