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Graham waffled on in a quite bewildering manner to produce...

won't take long for all the Boy racer Novas with K&N filters to be crying about "loss of power, then it stopped, then after 5 minutes it started"

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Maybe they're all driving gently.

By the way, lovely bit about wet roads and skidding in New Scientist the other day. Apparently Californians think wet roads are dangerous, particularly so with their climate where it may be months between rains....and quite right they are, of course. And what do they do about it? They drive faster to get home safely sooner.

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First time I really had trouble with it was a Renault Espace where the exhaust stove and trunking were simply absent. No trace of 'em. Had to make a stove from the baseplate of an old VCR and buy a long bit of crinkly shiny pipe stuff and invent it. Worked for at least three winters before she sold it.

Guy King waffled on in a quite bewildering manner to produce...

Typical septic mentality...

"Guns are dangerous, so I'll buy one just in case."

Ha, I had that last year, on a Rapid. made a mod, cut a hole in the top of k/n and used the original manifold pipe into the top. Just the job :)

Very few cars left with carbs? Perhaps uk.rec.cars.classic would have had more positive replies. ;-)

One guys car battery died at work.

Oh, all right. Just to make you happy: Yesterday I made a cake in the shape of an A-series engine, but I can't get the icing to stay on the carb - it falls off all the time. Any ideas? ;-)

Tom.

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Too much egg. Pull the yolk out and it'll be all white.

Have you tried heating it on the stove...

Tried that. And also found that the yolk was causing problems (thanks, Guy). However on my second attempt I found that there was not enough air in the mixture.....

....and the cake collapsed. ;-)

Tom. (who really hopes that there are no people just starting this thread from here because they'll be *really* confused!)

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You have to use the Shell, though.

Are you using the right sort of currant?

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You silly fuel.

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I reckon the air temperatre hasn't been low enough yet. It's got to be the right combination of cold and damp and continuous wide throttle to do it. And a faulty or wrongly set intake heater, of course.

Hi

Wasn't expecting too many replies ! Just a cynical comment, after all the postings we had here last year (So long ago already !)

Just jumped in early.

Graham

Oh dear. Oh deary me. Not only am I screwing up with the yolk and mixture, but I'm using sultanas. That's not the worst of it - I got confused while reading all the oil posts and put Castrol magnatec in the cake instead of sunflower oil. Now the cake is sticking to my guests' fillings.

Tom. (could this get more surreal?)

i expect your dinner party guests are feeling a bit gutless?

Or an induction kit that bypasses and intake heater.

-- James

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I reckon that counts as faulty!