Willie van der Walt wrote: > The problem with top mounted carbs are flooding. If you have gravity feed > and the needle and seat does not working properly .
I don't think an Ellison can leak like that. The Ellison won't flow at all unless the engine is sucking on it. There is a needle and seat in an Ellison, but it's used for pressure regulation of the fuel supply. Besides, the carb will now be the highest point in the fuel system, so I still don't see how it could leak. Steve Bennett has his Ellison mounted on top in his KR1.5 for years now, and said he picked up something like 150 rpm over the same carb in the "under-the-engine" configuration. As for comments, it does look like a lot of trouble to move the carb, but we'll all learn from Dan's efforts, whether positive or negative. I do think it can be made to work down below, but it may work better up high. I guess we'll see... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
