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Old 11-25-2020, 04:42 PM   #5
mtkawboy
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Me and my 16 year old buddy bought a 39 Buick coupe with a 50 Olds 303 engine & Hydramatic trans it less the carb. We spent our $50 on the car so we had no money to buy a 2 barrel carb for it. Doing some pioneering work on fuel injection I came up with the bright idea of borrowing my Moms enema bottle for gas and dug up an old turkey baster for the fuel injector. We decided we could see how it ran and then save up or sell something to buy a carb. He sat inside and spun it over while I handled the fuel injection. It fired right up and revved up then back fired and caught the whole works on fire when it burned all the hair off my arm and singed my hair causing me to drop the baster which further stirred the fire up. We put it out with some rags that were by the car. Thus ended my pioneering work with FI and I decided to let Mr Hilborn handle it in the future. My Mom was none to happy with the gas in the enema bottle and we had to buy here a new one. Ill see your stupid and raise you
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