Flooding a Mini is NOT fun...

"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy) 07/13/2017 at 10:10 • Filed to: None

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A couple weeks back I bought a 1990 Mini with a fairly big Webber carb... Webber carbs are fun on Mini, but don’t shut down the engine all of a sudden after driving fast... It floods it...

It took me an hour and half to get it to start again... It was 36 degrees outside too (97 degrees for you americans). Fun times! :)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 10:13

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whoops!

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 10:15

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Glad you clarified. At 36 degrees, I’m putting on a coat and gloves. At 97 degrees, I’m taking off my pants.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 10:17

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I was scared to see something like that:

Thankfully it was an old mini :)

BritishLeyland™ > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 11:09

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Tsk, proper cars have twin SUs!

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 11:12

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I never knew it got that hot in Japan, TIL.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 11:17

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Did it take that long! Not fun. Something to do with the design of the carb? If I’ve flooded things I usually crank it over for a few minutes with the butterflies wide open to evaporate some fuel and they start ok.

duurtlang > haveacarortwoorthree2 07/13/2017 at 11:42

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At 97 degrees I’m very close to literally boiling.

Slant6 > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 12:00

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You would think the heat would evaporate it quicker.

A.G > Flavien Vidal 07/13/2017 at 14:37

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Hey, i need you to put me in contact with Eiichi Amano, as i have seen his Audi quattro for sale. Does he speak English and can i send someone down to his garage?

Flavien Vidal > A.G 07/13/2017 at 18:49

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He speaks a little English but really not much lol

Drop me an email flavien.vidal at this thing called Gmail dot com

Flavien Vidal > Slant6 07/13/2017 at 19:48

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If you can remove the spark plugs, probably... But I had no tools to do that so it wasn’t really evaporing anywhere :)

Robert Belvin > Flavien Vidal 07/15/2017 at 00:13

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Just noticed something about old Minis, and correct me if I’m wrong. With the way the roofline lips continue down along the front of the doors, you could totally mount a roof rack in front of the windshield. Tell me that shit aint dope

Flavien Vidal > Robert Belvin 07/15/2017 at 02:33

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Dope is what you took too much of to even think of that hahaha :)

It would actually also probably work in the rear :)

Robert Belvin > Flavien Vidal 07/15/2017 at 09:30

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Maximum cargo capacity!! For real though, do the lips serve any real intended purpose? Or are they just part of the body assembling process?

Flavien Vidal > Robert Belvin 07/15/2017 at 10:40

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Honestly have no idea... I think it’s just a way to assemble pieces together for cheap...