tortron Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Not with 5 carbs 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.H. Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 10 minutes ago, ajg193 said: Apparently 5 cyl engines are practically impossible to get running properly with carbs Wat? Where do people get these ideas from? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteretep Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 10 minutes ago, 00quattro00 said: Wat? Where do people get these ideas from? internet old wives tales? Whats that thing, it takes 10 times more energy to disprove something stupid than it is to say something stupid, or something like that. Thats why all this fake news stuff is taking over the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Volvo or some shit tried to make a 5 cyl with 3 carbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.H. Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Force (use to be Chrysler) made a 5cyl 2 stroke outboard with 3 carbs and Audi had single carbed 5cyl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Five cylinder triple carb should be sweet if the one in the middle that fed one cylinder was half the size/flow of the other two shouldn't it? Would look weird as hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Lol try getting a twin carb perfect, now add a third that has to operate at a different rate consistently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 True. Better to just whack five motorcycle carbs on the thing right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfashark Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 2 hours ago, ajg193 said: Apparently 5 cyl engines are practically impossible to get running properly with carbs Also, when I had my CGT, some genius had played around with the K-Jet setup so it ran like a bag of dicks - I persevered and got it back to a healthy state, but I did a bit of research into converting it to carb and Holley had a carb+manifold available as a kit at the time, maybe 2009/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelies Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 On 07/09/2018 at 15:53, peteretep said: internet old wives tales? Whats that thing, it takes 10 times more energy to disprove something stupid than it is to say something stupid, or something like that. Thats why all this fake news stuff is taking over the world. not bad, 10 posts later and here we are. myth busted 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Hey have put larger tyres on my old land cruiser and the speedo is out by 12-14%, Im guessing it needs to be close to accurate for cert, have looked into mechanical correction boxes but can't justify $265au + postage\tax. Have found you can buy the gears from toyota new, so I'm thinking I will just buy the correct one. My speedo gear thing that goes into the gearbox is marked 6-18 (6 tooth in the gearbox and 18 on the one that you can pull out) you can't change the inside gear from 6 so if i change the 18 tooth gear to say a 17 or 16 does anyone know what one would help correct my speedo, long winded explanation but i can't figure it out. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Wait for someone that has more experience with getting their speedo calibrated. But unless i'm mistaken, you'd need to increase the tooth count above 18 to get it reading correct. The drive is going to be spinning slower due to bigger tyres, so for each turn it will need to turn the next cog faster to make up for that. Makes sense in my head... but maybe not, Sunday brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Wouldn't you need to change both gears? Otherwise they won't mesh right due to different diameter combinations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 That is often the case, but I have seen some for Japanese cars that have some kind of weird offset setup that allows you to just pop one in place 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 i think it does need a bigger driven gear thinking about it now, from the minimal internet searching apparently i don't have to change the gearbox gear, doesn't work in my thought process either. might just buy a 20 tooth and give it a go, if its tight going in it probably won't be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Work Hilux had an error like that cos some genius had put 15" wheels on it. At an indicated 150 on the speedo the terratrip said 133. Never fixed it, everyone knew it was dodgy and drove accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 To be honest It might not even be a Problem. When I got cert done, my speedo read about 20km out at 100. However I guess it all comes down to the person at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Rules are It can read up to 10% fast but can't read slow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 I think you need 16 tooth for 14% faster Speedo. Please someone double check though cause I'm not confident Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Check with robinson instruments in auckland. An inline gearbox from them might not be that expensive. As for the meshing, most of the nissan boxes can have a bunch of different plastic speedo gears all running off the same gearbox gear. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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