Originally Posted by
Sam La Banco
Hey Detroit Whitey, I used the stock reed cages, I added one more openning in them, there is enough room on one side. Made a fixture to hold the blocks and machined the holes. Modified the crankcase opennings a bit.
The whole idea was to get a better (modern) carb on the motor, one that could be "tunned" better than the stock carbs, which are very crude compared to newer designs. I knew the motor could not deal with a lot more fuel.
I think the guy's are trying to run the water backward because they found that was how we set it up in the SST 45 motor when we were developing it. It ran better running that way, but that doesn't mean all motors will, don't know about the 49 cuber. As far as I know it doesn't have any cooling problems that I know of. Will it run better with the water running backwards, only testing will tell.
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