SU Rubber Gasket

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SU Rubber Gasket

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hi, help require ! where can I buy this rubber gaskets ? are they used by the mini?
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Swiftune sell something very similar which allows some flex between carb and manifold.
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Look's a bit like a webber soft mount?
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So can we use saft mount on Mini twin SU, may help from leaking issue cause by engine vibration! ;)

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I do believe you can - dint vortz use a similar system to webbers as well

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pad4 wrote:I do believe you can - dint vortz use a similar system to webbers as well

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No, not to webers. He did a flexible fixing bolt system for twin HS4. But he claimed this modification would increase the top speed performance of the SUs to the level of Webers.

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Read - he used a system that was similar to whats used on webbers, not he used webbers

i wonder if they did anything ?

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Bet it stops the fuel frothing up at high revs.
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