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The „hosepipe and screwdriver“ show is Iains standard trick - as Rob described in his „magic pixie dust“ blog 10 years ago. But I would assume that Iains cars get a proper treatment before or after the show.
The hosepipe and screwdriver trick is outlined in several British workshop manuals for various English cars (including our big Healey). With his interest in music, and possible tone matching capability...it might be more than smoke and mirrors... Is it more or less accurate than a vacuum gauge? *shrug* sjd
The hosepipe trick works for SU carbs (which are not really well established in the Dino scene) - for those of us using Webers, the following procedure is benchmark: http://dino246blog.blogspot.com/2014/08/carb-tuning-1-weber-dcnf-carbs-and.html
I still have one of these from my solex days... enough to get a reading and balance accordingly. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The carb tuning trick with the hose works perfectly well but does require a very well tuned ear that is sensitive to tone and pitch. Ian Tyrrell is musically trained and would have such an ear. The rest of us can use a trusty flow meter that is every bit as accurate and requires much less skill to use. I very much like the Tyrrell's Classic Car channel and I think he is an excellent presenter with lots of information. That said I would take his opinion with a grain of salt. In this video he goes on about how the car was gone over to the last nut and bolt and I lost count of the number of errors and restoration liberties taken. He goes on about the importance of detail and waxes poetically about the attention on a detail like the precision to which the door handle is adjusted yet that same handle has excessive slop and axial play where it meets the door. On another note I would ask a question about this Dino. We know it is a later car with the non hooked front bumpers and round ducts in the nose. This car also has the 'clapper' style wipers that were phased out in later Dino's. From memory I can't remember but were any Dino's made with the later nose but the earlier wipers? I know that LOTS of Dino's at some time in life had their noses replaced for the later style ones (as that is the only off the shelf replacement Ferrari ever offered). Could it be that this is one of these instances?
What's the coolant capacity on a Dino? Just watched the end bit where he puts probably a gallon and a half of water in....
I found the bulletin where Ferrari changed the wipers over on the Dino and it began with car 05102 in late 72. This car with the shorter bumpers and different nose would have been later 73 to 74 production (someone correct me if I am wrong). It appears as though either the wiper mechanism or the nose is incorrect to this car. I guess would be the latter. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Funny I never mentioned the hose routine, it will get you in the right ballpark but thats it. airflow meter every time.....watch it again. If you are going to show someone tuning the car at least get the fundamentals right. How can you work on the carbs with the airbox in the way!!
The clapper wipers are correct on RHD Dinos. The steering wheel should be solid with no holes and silver. What's with the huge front number plate? Is that now a necessity?
I didnt watch all of the film the other day - adding possibly 4 litres of water to the system after its tune up and test drive was laughable and to compound the problem he said the header tank was now full !!!!! Mr Tyrrell, if you are going to make a video, review it after its made.
Not only Tony, but working on cars with jewelry on, is very dangerous. And, a chunky Rolex dangerously near the paint, not good. Regards, Alberto
