Glowing manifold

[preacherman]

I was talking to  guy in work who has a robin hood kit car with 16 xf and twin 40s. He bought the car as a project. The car will start and run it's a bugger to start he says and the exhaust 4 2 1 glows red hot at the collectors. The exhaust is a cherry bomb.

I said timing but could it be the webers being be too lean.

Any thoughts. I will ask him for some videos.

 

[Paulfosk]

I’d agree definitely start with the ignition timing, set it at 34 degrees max advance at 3500 rpm and see what he gets before messing with the webers

[preacherman]

So do you it's too far advanced. The engine spins over but a bugger to start. He sent me a picture I can share and all of the manifold 1600 sport 4 branch type is red, at the 4 2 1 collectors it's glowing.

[notenoughtime]

Jets are incorrect 

get him to take the jet cap off and see what jets are in it

idle jet needs correcting I think 

[katana]

Not trying to be smart but has he got a workshop manual - if he has, why hasn't he read it and yes, obviously twin 40's aren't stock for a 1600 xflow but baseline jetting isn't exactly 'secret squirrel' type info on the WWW! Even using Twincam jetting would likely ballpark it? If its a project, I would have hoped he has at least some mechanical abilities to fault find problems, diagnose and correct? Next simplest solution is rolling road dyno it - may cost £200 but should come out spot on!

[preacherman]

He's only had about 2 weeks. No harm in asking is there ffs

[katana]

10 hours ago, preacherman said:

He's only had about 2 weeks. No harm in asking is there ffs

If you'd started with that first up you might not have got such a terse response - you brought the subject up!

[preacherman]

So, Mark and is locost 16xf kit car are now best of friends. The engine is stock 1600 sport apart from twin dcoe. 

The dizzy was a lucas side entry and he said was old. Fitted a std xflow fiesta electronic one and sorted.  Maybe it was dizzy or timing...or both