Saturday, June 20, 2020

Beck TD, Part 63: Cylinder Head Musings

The readership of this blog contains both serious mechanic-types, and "casual" readers - friends who just want to see what I'm up to. If you're in the latter group, move along... you have my permission to skip this very detailed post for the Volvo engine geeks! For the rest of you, let's take a look at the various options for cylinder heads for our B18/B20 engines.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Beck TD, Part 62: Two chokes, choking

Beck TD has a pair of SU carburetors, and like all carburetors, each one has a choke mechanism to help the car start when cold. For the first couple of years, Beck's worn engine required the carbs to be set with such a rich mixture that the choke was never needed, but since I added a new, sound engine, it really wants the choke. And that was a problem, because there was no choke linkage...