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Alright my lovers, Just bought a new Stromberg 175 CD carb...  "Stromberg CD175 carburettor never been used. Still in the Stromberg bags."Mmmmm Shiny!! Now, i want to replace my air filter...  ..for summit less fugly, maybe summit chromey and shiny, more like this:  Know of anything? Also, i just came across this:  SU HIFF44 Carb...anyone know anything about them? are they just for MGB's or is it a case of finding the right manifold adaptor? |
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I'm sure K&N must do a pancake style filter to fit a Stromberg. The HIF carb is the last real deveoplment of the SU I believe. Used on Metros too. Personally I prefer the older basic jet ones. You can get all the needels etc you'd need to make it suit. But why not get a pair of twin SU's as fitted to many of the Amazons?  |
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Jealous of your nice shiny carb, particularly after cutting through all the gunk on mine to free off the accelerator linkage! ;D I'm a bit confused as to why an HIF44 would be a replacement for the Strommy 175. The HS6 / HIF6 is virtually identical - I'd have thought that would be a better match.  In any case, I don't think there's much difference between the Stromberg and SU units. If I was gonna swap em about I'd do what Seth said and go for twin SU's (twin HS6 weren't they?). I'm sure there are kits available. With a bit of adaptation any air filter can be made to fit. I've got my 175CD sucking through a MG Maestro airbox with Saxo K&N filter inside... it's a separate airbox though, and isn't as shiney or pretty as those pancake jobs! *Edit* Also, as far as I know the only major difference between the HIF and HS is the internal float on the HIFs (I.F. meaning internal float) |
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Last Edit: Feb 1, 2007 17:39:59 GMT by BenzBoy
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Pancake one on a non crossflow engine.....  It will be much worse that the current arrangement  ;D Fit a pankake inside that box if you must and connect some donkey c0ck hose to it for a cold air feed from the front ;D |
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so you recon unless i have directional air flow it won't work as well?
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Jealous of your nice shiny carb, particularly after cutting through all the gunk on mine to free off the accelerator linkage! ;D Oh, btw, it was only 18 quid including postage |
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so you recon unless I have directional air flow it won't work as well? No I reckon all you are going to be breathing in is hot air, heated by the exhaust manifold directly below it ;D Engines like clean cold air..... a lot of it |
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what about a ram pipe? i'd even drill a hole in the bonnet
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£18?!  Bargainous. Good point Dom. All this talk of airflow has made me consider my set-up. Whilst the airbox isn't particularly near the manifold, I think it could do with some induction piping. *Plans trip to B&Q...* On closer investigation, an HIF44 isn't a million miles away from an HIF6, and therefore quite similar to the Stromberg 175. So I still don't think it'd be much of an upgrade... |
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very barginous, just hope it works I'm all up for doing the pipeing for better air flow, gettin her running nicely, but i must be able to do summit a bit prettier than this: |
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Clean it up and spraypaint it black, replace the top half of it with mesh, or drill a series of holes in it, fit some nice extra piping, job done ;D
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clean it up and paint a skull on it tom ;D
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steam clean the engine bay, polish that rocker cover, get some bits chromed, and give all the plasitc/rubber and wires a good scrub and i expect i will look supurb!
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Naaa, "DANGER - UNEXPLODED MINE" ftw  |
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The late model amazon had a ram pipe that was poked through the rad panel on the drivers side so parts should be available i think it was '69/'70 models DO NOT USE THE AIR FILTERS YOU HAVE PICTURED they ok for a push bike but on a car it would be strangling it due to not enough air flow. the more filter surface the better |
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what the fcuk have you done lately
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