So yeah, I went up there yesterday, and after about a half an hour of spraying carb cleaner and WD40 and putting new fluid in the carbs and baselining the jets, it cranked up almost immediately and settled into a decent idle. It was amazing. But then, about 5-10 seconds later, fuel started gushing out of those stupidly designed HS6s! Yeah, I called them stupid. I mean seriously, the HIF6s are soo much better just because of that! 8^P

So, off came the float bowls, and took a little looking at, and I don't know anything much about the levels the floats are supposed to be at or how to adjust them to be there. Even with my Haynes manual, I didn't read it to much, but yeah, not cool. We tinkered with them a bit, tried messing around with them a bit, tried bending them so the float would be a little lower so it would act like the bowl is full even when it wasn't completely full... That didn't work to well, I couldn't really get them bent to have the floats lower than they should be normally, so I don't know if that theory would've worked or not even if I did get the float to sit a little lower but still push up on the needle as if it were in the right spot. Blah blah. So we went to a volvo shop that was open, and the guys there, although they had experience with them before, seemed rather dumb and wrong when I was listening to them. Except for the blowing out grit and what not, but there was no grit, so they couldn't help us... ! Argh. What a pain in the ASS. And it was running sooooo nicely while we had it going. Dirty plugs, bad gas and all!

I really do think this car has a gem of an engine... I looked underneath the oil cap, and the head and rocker assembly were clean, VERY clean... I pulled out the oil dipstick, and the car had oil in it, still up to a decent level, and STILL RELATIVELY CLEAR! Maybe it's new oil, maybe it's not, but the guy I'm talking to about getting it from thought it needed an oil change, so I don't know. I'd really like to go up there now and plop my carbs on it and drive it down though. Find out how that engine really is...

Then, after I get it down here, clean it up a bit, get it in good overall condition, or as well as I can, and then start taking the goodies off of it and replacing them with stock/not so good parts and then sell the car as a good runner but in need of some body work before the rust starts getting bad. The body is pretty straight, the right rear door latch doesn't really work, the rear hatch latch doesn't really work, maybe with cleaning and taking apart both of those they might work, who knows. But yeah, take off the swaybars, put a stock swaybar up front, take off the wheels and put regular skinnies on it, swap in a m40 maybe? =D Crazy me, I know... And then maybe swap out whatever motor that thing has going on for the motor in my car... 8^P Crazy I know! And then put my car's current motor in it, and some m40 from someone/somewhere in it, then swap rear brake pressure limiters(for more rear wheel braking, or just take out my limiters and leave it be without any...). And whatever.

It has an aluminum SU manifold in the back of it too, so that's some more money for me. Or, if it's the better version of the alloy manifolds, swap it with the one that I currently have on my 142...

I'm crazy! w00! And yeah, so there's the deal. Or, I could do the strip it out idea again, and just leave the excess up there for them to get towed away...

PS. About after an hour or so of working on the car, I started getting sick to my stomach, it could've been from the gas fumes that I was inhaling, or from the tuna sandwich I had eaten, or from a bug that my friend's family had floating around their house from the night before mixed with only 4 hours of sleep because I was playing GT4.... Anyway, I felt like I had to throw up for maybe 6 hours straight, and I hate throwing up, so I never did, and it sucked. It was torture. I guess the sleep in the car and the sleep when I got home and the 11 hours last night helped me out a bit though. I'm feeling much better. And not really sick. Good stuff. PEACE!
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Kyle - VP of OVT Membership - www.OVTuners.org Portland/Corvallis, OR - 1968 142 - current setup: 71b20b SUs, m40, bigger list available upon request... ;)