[Chrysler300] Digest Number 390

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There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Intake manifold combustion
           From: "Warren R Anderson" <wranderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      2. Re: Vasteras, Sweden - Big Meet pictures and story !
           From: "John Skeggs" <johnskeggs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Message: 1
   Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:45:06 -0700
   From: "Warren R Anderson" <wranderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Intake manifold combustion


Generally, popping back through the carburetors is
>a matter of leanness, timing being off, or a bad intake valve allowing
the
>normal combustion process to fire jets of flame back into the intake
>manifold.
>
>Since more than one set of carburetors have been used, it kind of
eliminates
>anything like float levels or such.  I'm thinking more along the lines of
>leanness or such.

This post I agree with. Ignition failure will present as backfire through
exhaust. A mixture late burning in a cylinder (and for any number of or
combination of reasons) will continue to burn when the intake valve opens
and blow back into the intake manifold.

I remember a magazine road test on a brand new then torsion bar Chrysler
in
1957 where Cahill (maybe) ran the thing down the track at 60 MPH and
without
slowing cranked the wheel hard to make a 90. As I remember, in one
direction
the engine flooded and the other direction it did not due to fuel slosh in
the float bowl. This was a factory fault in the carb design. Point is,
carburetors are imprecise things at best when dealing with vehicle
dynamics
and just maybe this coupled with some other factor (timing advance
problem,
weak ignition, bad coil, failing or wrong ballast resistor, etc) is the
culprit.

I haven't seen a post about this, so, a propane torch with the burner
removed and a small hose and then a short length of brake tubing
substituted
makes a wonderful probe for locating intake/vacuum leaks. This tool is
very
effective with just a tiny flow of propane but best used outside in good
ventilation.

Warren Anderson
Sedona,AZ



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Message: 2
   Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:49:18 -0400
   From: "John Skeggs" <johnskeggs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Vasteras, Sweden - Big Meet pictures and story !

Greetings  all-as  someone  whose long  ago ancestry  is Norwegian, I  am
pleased that our  Scan friends are  so gung ho on  300s. Remember  also
that
"International"  includes  Canada, and as  the  recent delighted  owner of
a  C that I  imported  from  Califiornia I  take  great comfort  from the
fact that there  is  such an excellent support  group for 300 owners  as
the
Club. Any  parts I ever  require  will almost  certainly  have  to be
sourced from  the  US.
Don't  know  how  many  Cs there  are  in  Canada. I  would  think very
few
of  the original 1957 shipment survive. Wayne Graefen's book states  that
just  25  of the production run came  up here. So  it  is  more  likely
that
all/most  of  the Cs in  this  country were  brought up here subsequently,
as  I just  did.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hertog" <crossram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chrysler 300 Club Listverver" <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:30 PM
Subject: [Chrysler300] Vasteras, Sweden - Big Meet pictures and story !


> Hi to all,
>
> Once in awhile it is good to be reminded of the "International" word in
our
> Club name.
> Yes, there are 300 lovers the world over.  And, particularly, in
northern
> Europe. Our friends (and fellow Club members ) in Sweden, Norway and
Finland
> are just as nuts as we are - if not nuttier, when you consider how hard
it
> is to restore a 300 here in the USA. Imagine having to do this when you
live
> in Europe !!!
>
> We are fortunate, in this day and age, to have a listserver which allows
all
> of us to communicate easily and inexpensiely all year round. It has
brought
> us closer to our "foreign" members, especially those living on other
> continents.
>
> Please check out the following link for Oddvin Skråmestø 's report of
this
> past July's "Big Meet" in Vasteras, Sweden.  This is can also be
accessed
> thru our Web site's EVENTS page.   Guys, we are proud of you !!! and the
> tattoo takes the cake !!!
>
> http://www.chrysler300club.com/events/vasteras02/vasteras02.html
>
> 300'ly all over the world !
>
> John
>
>
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