My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

[Patcon]

5 hours ago, RIP260Z said:

The texture is what's left after the serious corrosion on the trumpets was removed, not from my work. I could have changed the trumpets out, but the other carb has a cut-away on the trumpet particular to a car model, so not something I wanted to try to replicate, therfore let someone else change.

Sorry, I wasn't referring to the texture on the carbs you restored. I figured that was previous corrosion. I thought your carbs looked great. I was referring to Nils comment on texture after blasting. Vapor honing or wet blasting with glass beads should help provide a nice finish to his carbs

[SpeedRoo]

If you have access to an ice blaster, that's where I start with a rare set of carburettors. Very gentle on the original castings and doesn't remove any metal in the process.

For less valuable carbs using the ultrasonic cleaner is the easiest way to go. The trick is the right combination of chemicals to gently remove dirt/oil/corrosion. For the metal parts I strip them with EvapoRust before plating.

Here's some 50 year old Dellortos I did for my 240Z restomod. I did a special set of factory development Weber 50IDF carbs for one of my V8 Vantages 20 years ago using ice blasting. They still look pretty good.