Sterling Carb Question
 

I was wondering, I have next to no experience with carbs, but if I sent my stock ('85 gsl) carb to Sterling for him to mod it, would I be able to just bolt it on once it was returned, or would I have to have a mechanic tune it up for me?

Also, if Sterling, or someone that mods stock carbs, happens to read this, would you happen to have a carb arleady to go, where I can take mine off and send it to you in exchange for the modded one? I'll also send in $$ for your services. Thanks.

ask CDRAD51 :bigthumb:

Be good to me Mel. WTF are you trying to do? :confused: Cdrad51 is the posterboy for the hybrid Honda.

Carl and I don't do business on this forum like that. Email one of us. You can visit either of our websites for details, yadda yadda yadda. We'll hook you up.

just as a side note.


If your modded carb is not jetted or tuned perfectly upon reciving it, GREAT!!
it gives you a great oppertunity with the help and advice of people like sterling, carl, or anyone else to help you learn more about your car and to become a more freverant rx7 enthusiast because of it.

it is not that difficult and very rewarding to know your not just bolting a great part on but actually tuning your car to perform even better!

I have witnessed sterling and carls support first hand. I was impressed.

my bad. my comment didnt come out as I intended to. I deserve this :spank:

Great. Once I can live without the car for a while I'll give ya hollar Sterling.

Give me a holler now, because there's already a list.

Yay :) I got in-and-out before there was a huge list :)

Almost any carb 'kit' that you buy will work when you bolt it on, but the best performance comes from tuning it yourself.

Carburetors cannot possibly account for all the variables and still offer the best performance, so there's always a compromise. Mazda made the carbs so that they'd work no matter who you were and where in the world you drove one. They did this by adding "Altitude Compensators" to compensate for altitude and "Vacuum Secondaries" to compensate for heavy-foot-syndrome.

A Sterling Carb has no such auto-adjustments. If you take the time to tune your carb for your altitude, ambient environment (avg temps, etc) and driving style, then you can extract the most out of your carburetor.

A Sterlign Carb (or a Holley, or Dellorto, or Weber or Miknuni or whatever) will work as a bolt on, but the joy comes from learning how to adjust it on your own, and refining that last 10% of the power out of it.

If that tuning intimidates you, get the carb anyway, it's better than stock and I'll promise you that once you've had it for a while you won't be able to resist the urge to do some tuning ;) The carb looks so much simpler than stock, and the feeling of accomplishment from doing something on your car yourself can't be beat.

And I plan to learn from the master ;)

Jon

Ditto big time, I didnt know squat about carbs and finally decided to learn about how it worked so I could tune it, I can now start my engine cold, have instant throttle response and am making so much more power than before, every time i blip the throttle for a down shift i smile a little smile knowing i made it so that it would respond without that annoying hesitation, get the carb, learn how to tune it it is worth the effort, i promise.