The V8 Owners Forum -

Hi Gents , been lurking on the forum for a while - excellent site .
I have an offroad Landy with an RV8 fitted with a new Weber/ Edel 500 . I have fitted the offroad needle kit but seemed to get starvation on the steeper climbs . I removed the offroad needles and seats and now get flooding on the steeper climbs . Apart from that the carb has been a joy but this cutting out at the worst possible moment is getting a bit dangerous . I'm going to switch back to the offroad needles and raise the float level from the 7/16 ths . I'll maybe try and drop the float level as much as i can without the float hitting the bottom of the float bowl .
Anyone got any sugestions or had similar probs ?. I'm going to re install my 30 year old SU's if i don't get this sorted out . Any help apreciated , thanks , gordon .

The weber 500's are only any good up to a point. They can cope with reasonable angles, but nothing extreeme - remember they are really for a car - not off road. I found that mine also stumbled when going across a bumpy field or lane.

SU's are far more tolerent of being at an angle than a 4 barrel. If you will play dirty then I'm 'fraid it is SU's or EFI (or lots and lots of those strimmer carbs with the diaphram "float" chambers )
Mike

kiwicar wrote: If you will play dirty then I'm 'fraid it is SU's or EFI

Yep.

Thanks very much Eliot and Mike for the responses .
That is pretty much the conclusion that i was thinking myself .
What is annoying is that part of the reason that i bought the carb was reading of it's amazing offroad credentials on a certain UK based RV8 specialists website . Well now i know .
In the meantime i did raise the float level with the offroad needles from 7/16 ths to 3/8 ths or thereabouts . From the testing i've done at present it does seem a bit better . If it even coughs once next offroad weekend then the SU's are back on .