Re: Solex carbs

[BHIGGINS2@domain.elided]

If you want to ditch them - send them my way.  I have a 79 Euro Alfetta GTV 
with dual solex carbs.  It is the sweetest carb setup in my stable that also 
includes Weber DCOE and in the past Dellortos.  Sometimes I don't start the 
car with Solex carbs for months.  I get in, pump the accelerator pedal a 
couple times, turn the key and the car always fires to life and idles 
perfectly everytime.  I've never had to rebuild them and they are 100% 
original going back to 1979!  The car sat for years before I purchased it 
from the original owner- a little carb cleaner squirted in the throats and 
the car came back to life.  Can't say the same for any Webers of Dellortos 
I've had - let them sit a couple years with gas in them and you are looking 
at total teardown and rebuild.  Also I drove the car from Florida to Texas 
(640 miles) back in 1998 at a constant 80 mph and averaged over 30 mpg.  I'm 
a big fan of the Solex 40DDH carbs.

Ben Higgins
Galveston, Texas

 iIn a message dated 12/13/01 1:24:48 AM Central Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> I'm looking at a European Alfa with Solex carbs.  The seller says original
> equipment.  True?  Anyone have experience with them?  I know on the Mercedes
> 190SL, the first thing any owner does is ditch them.  But they were circa
> 1960.  Did they improve in the 70s?

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