by Scott Slusser | May 31, 2012 | The Project
The Carburetor: The carburetor was invented by the Hungarian engineer Donát Bánki in 1893. Frederick William Lanchester of Birmingham, England experimented early on with the wick carburetor in cars. In 1896 Frederick and his brother built the first petrol driven car...
by Scott Slusser | May 25, 2012 | The Project
In preparation of rebuilding the the Weber 30 DICA carburetor I decided to take as many pictures of it as I could. I wanted to have every angle. There are so many little pieces and I a terrified that I will either lose some or completely blank on where some go. So...
by Scott Slusser | May 24, 2012 | The Project
I got a new catalog from Vick Auto Sports in Texas. I love looking through these catalogs. It is like Christmas in the 1970s when we didn’t have the Internet to peruse all of the goodies available. No sir, we used the Sears, JC Penny and Monkey Wards catalogs! I...
by Scott Slusser | Aug 30, 2011 | The Project
After getting the stuck piston out I started the quest for a machine shop to do some work on the block. Namely, hone the cylinder walls, deck the block and give it the hot bath treatment. I called around to various local shops and found them to be either expensive,...
by Scott Slusser | Jul 26, 2011 | The Project
As Promised here are some pictures I took at the Fiat Freak-Out 2011 in Nashville, TN. It was a really hot day but that didn’t stop the people who came out to see the cars. I noted that there were only a couple of 850s there. One Spider and one Coupe. I was a...
