[V8] intake sealing

[Buchholz, Steven]

... is today 1 April???

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)
> 
> Hey y'all.  I just picked up a 1990 V8 quattro at a tow yard 
> auction.  It's
> pretty nice except that none of the electrical accesories 
> work.  Anyway,
> here's my problem:  The fuel injecsion didn't seem to be 
> working right.  It
> was real hard to start in the morning, so I had to use ether to get it
> started.  To get around that, I cut a hole in the top of the 
> intake, hogged
> out the runners a bit so they'd all get some gas and air, and bolted a
> Holley 650 double pumper on the top.  That should be big 
> enough for a 3.6
> litre engine, right?  It doesn't seem to run right.  I'm 
> pretty sure I got
> the carb sealed on there good with RTV, but it still seems 
> like there's a
> vacum leak or something--it stumbles and hesitates when I try 
> to take off.
> I'm sure I'm not the first to do this to get rid of that Bosh 
> injecsion
> system.  Any idears?