I have made the acquaintance of a guy who has been mentioned here more than a few times. Keith Franck knows an amazing amount of information about the Weber side-draft DCOE carbs, and has invented and manufactured a number of innovations. Just last weekend, he had a 'tuning day' for Lotus owners who's cars use Weber side-draft carbs. He offered to include us Datsun peeps but it was really too late to set this up.

I am wondering if we have enough people who would attend a Tuning Day for us Datsun guys with Webers?

I have a friend with a restoration shop who would be willing to host in Sonoma CA... (Keith lives in the Martinez area).

We could have a BBQ and maybe even a drive, the roads through Napa and Sonoma are amazing!

Sound off if you're interested...

I will have to ask Keith about Mikuni's... One of our members here and a friend of mine Silver Streak, dropped off a Mikuni carb for Keith to look at and model. I believe that he developed jetting for it and I hooked him up with some Miki guys for beta testing but I have not heard anything from those guys. So, the answer to your question is maybe... Sorry.

Rob -

Let us know what Keith's viewpoint is on the Mikuni's - I have several jets and so forth and have tested last year with my AF gauge - I have been keeping a spreadsheet with the different jets and how they effect my driveability - like to know Keith's results for the engine that he has tested with the different Mikuni's.

I haven't mount my triple weber yet, but I would like to attend too!

Just FYI guys, Keith is doing some R&D. It looked at one point as if he would completely make the previous "Obert" tube obsolete but now it appears he may just be doing a redesign of a portion of it. At any rate, it will be a while before we do a clinic as there might be a change that you would not get to take advantage of.