harun Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Does anyone know were i can get SU Carb setup fine tunned in Victoria? Quote
kickn5k Posted July 6, 2007 Report Posted July 6, 2007 The place you need to go to if you are southside of the city is Mammi Motors in sommerville, they tune my ke-11 with su`s and have found that all the knockers that said it would be out of tune in a couple of days, are now proved wrong it still drives ok 6 months later. If you are norhtside or sommerville is too far then Lou mondello in Moorabin is the go. Ill have to post up the details tomoz as my phone is flat. ps. both these tuners are real good with su`s although mammi`s prefer webers they will tune any twin, triple or quad carby setup. i love su`s the only problem i have is that my 1 1/2" carbies are a little too small for the rpm and power bands I'm after. stu. Quote
Felix Posted July 6, 2007 Report Posted July 6, 2007 Go find a mini or MG tuner, preferably with a dyno. They would most likely have a good selection of needles to fine tune your SU's. Quote
Doogs Posted July 6, 2007 Report Posted July 6, 2007 The place you need to go to if you are southside of the city is Mammi Motors in sommerville, they tune my ke-11 with su`s and have found that all the knockers that said it would be out of tune in a couple of days, are now proved wrong it still drives ok 6 months later. If you are norhtside or sommerville is too far then Lou mondello in Moorabin is the go. Ill have to post up the details tomoz as my phone is flat. ps. both these tuners are real good with su`s although mammi`s prefer webers they will tune any twin, triple or quad carby setup. i love su`s the only problem i have is that my 1 1/2" carbies are a little too small for the rpm and power bands I'm after. stu. approx how much did it cost you to get it done through them (labour and jets) ? thanks Quote
kangaroosa Posted July 6, 2007 Report Posted July 6, 2007 (edited) Mammi motors are the cheapest around. $40-50 labour per hour. With weber and dellorto carbs, they do change over service. So your not paying full price for new jets Mammi motors also has a dyno, but they arent able to print off a results sheet. Not sure about SU parts though, as i never had my old set tuned there. When i had my Dellortos tuned from scratch, they charged me about $170. That included them stuffing around fixing and welding part of my linkages. Fitting a new fuel pressure regulator, change over of jets and dyno time. A very reasonable price considering i was preparing myself for around the $300 mark. When i had SU's, I shopped around to all the Mini, Triumph and MG servicing workshops in SE Melb. None of them had a dyno, and the one bloke that they all recommended had retired 6 months previously. There are plenty of workshops around that will stick the analyser in your exhaust and just balance and tune the idle of the SU's. But as for swapping needles, jets and springs...well i was hard pressed to find someone competant enough to do so, and have a dyno at the same time. I approached a competant bloke to tune my SU's, on the proviso that he come to another workshop and tune them on the other blokes dyno. I was willing to pay both the blokes their hourly rates. The dyno owner was more than willing to provide the dyno, but the tuner couldnt be convinced to go to another workshop to tune them for me. I threw my hands up in the air and whacked some Dellortos on. So I hope you have more luck than me finding an SU specialist. Edited July 6, 2007 by kangaroosa Quote
kickn5k Posted July 7, 2007 Report Posted July 7, 2007 (edited) approx how much did it cost you to get it done through them (labour and jets) ? thanks hey i had the needles reasonably close so it only cost me $80 for the tune and about $70 for them to re do the breather setup cheap concidering a mate just had a set of triple webers tuned at another shop and it cost $900. South eastern carburetors in dandenong sorted me with needles at about $35 each, on my 5K with 1 1/2" carbs i run the stock .090" main jet and a number 6 needle. I spoke to Gerald friday to book a relick on the tune on my car and he preached on a set of weber`s/delorto`s just be ready for that but yes they tune them but I'm not too sure on there range of jets there. Mammi motors Sommerville (03) 59777973 $66 per hour for dyno tune plus parts stu. Edited July 7, 2007 by kickn5k Quote
kickn5k Posted July 7, 2007 Report Posted July 7, 2007 Oh forgot, Lou Mondello, (03) 9555 9591 Wren rd Moorabin. Apparentllly he is at a classic rally at moment but i also don't have a price for him he is actually a Datsun 2000 roadster specialist. but can also tune su`s Quote
harun Posted July 7, 2007 Author Report Posted July 7, 2007 Thanks for the information. Who would you highly regard to be better on tunning regradless of price and location? Thanks Quote
kangaroosa Posted July 7, 2007 Report Posted July 7, 2007 South eastern carburetors in dandenong sorted me with needles at about $35 eachstu. I had my 32/36 tuned there many years ago when they were on Cheltenham Rd. They moved from Cheltenham Rd over 12months ago to Foster St. I noticed poor fuel consumption on my car back then after they rebuilt and and tuned my carby. So i took it back and it turned out that they didnt do up a hose clamp, so it was just pumping raw fuel out onto the road. Luckily fuel wasnt so expensive back then. Quote
kickn5k Posted July 7, 2007 Report Posted July 7, 2007 Thanks for the information. Who would you highly regard to be better on tunning regradless of price and location? Thanks If it were my choice it would be Mammi motors Gerald loves Dattos but also loves tuning carby fed cars almost as much. stu. Quote
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