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28th Mar, 2006 at 09:45:25am

Hi i would just like to introduce myself, my name is Jeremy.Im 23 and i live in New Zealand, i have a 1975 turbo'd mini that im in the process of doing it up, it started out as a 1000cc everyday run about and is now a fast but totally unreliable machine thats constantly giving me problems!

Recently the gearbox spat a bearing and stuffed the brand new turbo and some components in the engine,it is now almost ready to run again but i had this problem of the engine cutting out completely after a few seconds under boost of 8psi...and when you back off the accelerator the engine would come back to life again!
Ive been reading some of the questions and comments on here and have already found a few things that could cause it and will change them...like my fuel line sizes maybe to small, and engine timing maybe incorrect. No one knows anything about mg metro engines over here so didnt know where to look until now!
Carb has been rekitted but dont know what needle, Does anyone know what the 2 pipes on the right hand side of carby does? are they fuel returns or breathers or something? Currently i have them linked together with some hose cause it seems to run beter like that.

Thanks, Jeremy

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28th Mar, 2006 at 09:58:20am

Heya welcome. If you do a search, there is a couple of good threads on Carb Connections.

Get some pics up, too :)

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28th Mar, 2006 at 12:01:19pm

On 28/03/2006 09:45:25 j_d_jag_mini said:
the engine cutting out completely after a few seconds under boost of 8psi...and when you back off the accelerator the engine would come back to life again!
Thanks, Jeremy


Welcome, it sounds like you might have the wrong gasket between the carb and plenum, causing the floatbowl not to pressurise under boost.

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28th Mar, 2006 at 01:50:06pm

Hello there welcome to the forum, there is loads of useful information within this site for you!


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28th Mar, 2006 at 02:42:51pm

welcome we are all here to help

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28th Mar, 2006 at 06:22:28pm

Hello and welcome to the forum

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j_d_jag_mini

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29th Mar, 2006 at 07:58:55am

Thanks for your kind welcome guys, thats great!
Ive found this website and forum so so useful of the past few hours ive spent on here! so i now have a few more modifications and corrections to do.
Hopefully when i get it running again which will probably be in about 2 weeks...it will run ok....touch wood!
If not...i'll be asking for more help!!!

Thanks again, Jeremy *smiley*

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17th Apr, 2006 at 08:21:18am

Hi Jeremy,
Welcome to the club and as all the others have said the info is on the search button.Dave
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