Did Lotus send an engine to ....

PostPost by: AussieJohn » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:14 am

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Did Lotus send an engine to Weber for original setting up on their dyno or did Lotus do it in house? I remember when Chrysler were setting up their E49 chargers for Bathurst they sent a complete car to Weber.
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PostPost by: MarkDa » Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:34 pm

That sort of static test bed picture certainly makes you think about making sure that there are no leaks in the fuel system!
Mind you a droplet would evaporate with the heat before it got anywhere but a spray.......!

I was under the impression that manufacturers often farmed out calibration to the carburettor firms, presumably on the basis of future sales paying for the development work.
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PostPost by: prezoom » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:45 pm

Seems like I remember reading something somewhere that they loaded an engine in the back of car and drove it to Weber for calibration.
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PostPost by: MarkDa » Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:35 pm

According to Miles Wilkins in his Twin Cam book Lotus had a test bed 1477cc twink in an Anglia which took a spare engine to Weber in Bologna for 'carburettor evaluation'.
The round trip took 10 days so Weber must have spent a week or so setting it up.
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PostPost by: AussieJohn » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:28 am

I guess this would have been a 1500cc early engine. I wonder if in 1970's they took an engine to dellorto's?
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