New to the forum - from South Hampshire

[mudhut]

Good afternoon to all. I seem to remember a Dave Sideways from eBay in the earlyish 2000's doing Weber or DellOrto. There can't be more than one, I'm sure.

I had a Vitesse 6 in the mid 1970's and loved it to bits until a rather large lump in the road in Brittany broke the corner of the diff case off while somewhat overloaded five-up. Fixed overnight somewhere in the back end of beyond of France between Xmas and New Year 1975. Hypothermia. Car now long gone.

These days, I'm more interested in getting my Lancia 2-litre twin cam engined kit car running properly on the DHLA40H carbs that I have for it. It's been a miserable experience so far. I'll post on the correct forum in a day or so when I've gathered all the carb and engine data.

[Nick Jones]

Greetings - and welcome to the forum.

Yes, you would be correct about the name match. Dave was very much the carb specialist back then.

Unfortunately, though this forum, which he started, retains the "Sideways" name, for various reasons Dave is no longer active here and not, as far as I know active in the carbs game either.

However, it's still worth a go at posting up details of your challenges as we do have others (not me!) with some carb expertise on here, though possibly not at Dave's level.

I take it you've already found the basic setup info here?

There may be more information more specific to your problem in that area of the forum too, but it's fairly quiet in there these days!

[JohnD]

Welcome, mudhut! (we'd love to have a real name to call you by!)

Dave was on Facebook a while ago - can't say recently, as I was hacked off that site and am not going back.    He wasn't posting about car related things, but might be willing to give  advice.    

John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Hi Mudhut 

Had a quick look on Face-ache. No Dave Sideways, just a Dave Sidewayz that looks rather like a bot.

[mudhut]

Thank you all for the welcome.

It's a long story going back nearly years to shortly after I had the car. In a nutshell, when I first fitted the carbs, they worked tolerably but I cleaned them out and really carefully set the float height, pump volumes and other stuff. I'd already noticed that the float height gap was much less than the roughly 14-15mm often specified (can't remember exactly what but may have been half this amount). I made other changes too like Viton needles. Running from that point on was really poor (pick up off idle and progression) but other life things things took over. Now 17 years later I want to sell the car as its too difficult to get into, harder to get out of and underneath and I can't get my head into a small footwell on my back.

I'll post a full description of my set-up and other stuff like fuel pressure and how my DHLA45s worked and what I think I've found here in a new thread in the right place.

Best,

Peter

I'll also edit my profile/sig, if I can, to expose my name.

[JohnD]

Pater (thank you!)

There has been an occasional contributor here, using the name "SpitfireBGT".   He might be Dave Sideways, his avatar looks similar.

Edited November 30 by JohnD

[mudhut]

38 minutes ago, JohnD said:

Pater (thank you!)

There has been an occasional contributor here, using the name "SpitfireBGT".   He might be Dave Sideways, his avatar looks similar.

Thanks. I've looked into this and I'm pretty sure this is not DaveNotSoSideways. The chap you have mentioned is in the USA. I have the real Dave's full name from his activity many years ago but if he doesn't use it here, I'll not doxx him.

Still gathering info to make a more comprehensive post soon.

[thebrookster]

2 hours ago, JohnD said:

Pater (thank you!)

There has been an occasional contributor here, using the name "SpitfireBGT".   He might be Dave Sideways, his avatar looks similar.

Not the same guy.

Dave is still active on Facebook, though he hasn't posted anything car related for a long time.