Originally Posted by
bob homewood
Gerald ,Citroen 15 I have worked on a few standard examples over the years,but the only time I ever done anything other than service work ,was at a tuning business where I worked ,we had one come in belonged to the local doctor ,brought it in one day because it was a bit off color ,we did a compression check ,yes it was not good news. we decided to do a valve grind on it and he suggested we give the ports and rough edges a bit of a clean up,we suggested he ditch the Solex carb and fit a DCD Weber ,we used to have these little cast adaptors that you drilled to suit the manifold ,its a long time ago ,but from memory the Inlet manifold looked a bit like a BMC B series one ,one of the Citroen people on here will no doubt confirm or deny that ,or in turn perhaps banish me into the Foreign Legion,after we had finished it we set the jetting etc up on the Dyno ,too long back to remember what difference it made ,but the good thing with a lot of stuff in that era was a good clean up in the ports and unshrouding the valves always worked wonders,likewise with the carburetor ,most of them had carbs that were too small on them,we used to fit the DCD Weber or later on a Hitachi carb to lots of cars, so that its it on my Citroen tuning ,actually I was just thinking Doctors must have a thing with Citroen's as one of my Doctors later in life had two of them ,albeit of a much more modern expensive variety
Rod I was just thinking actually ,after reading Gerald' comments on tea drinking etc ,I don't think I will apply for the job ,I think they would find both you and I are perhaps over qualified for the job especially if they have read some of the comments we have written on here,we might not even get invited to join them
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