Seeking Shop (or individual) for Tii Tuning in Tampa Bay

[Sean Murphy]

Hey all,

Does anyone have a recommendation for a shop or individual they trust for Tii tuning in the Tampa Bay area?  74Tii with a 72Tii engine.

 

Best,

Sean

[Mike Self]

I believe there's a guy in Sarasota who's knowledgeable about tii's.  Try PM-ing Zouave--he's in Sarasota, has a tii and has mentioned a person there who I believe has worked on his car.

 

mike

[Sean Murphy]

Hey Mike, appreciate the recommendation.  I tried searching for Zouave (and variations), but no luck.

[0257]

Outed!  Zouave is my ‘74 tii.  Mike is right that I had a little help setting up my tuna can from an old friend here in Sarasota who is a retired mechanic and needs about 6 months to get around to anything.  I had gone through the entire fuel system changing out lines, hoses, filters, linkages, springs, etc. and I daresay he had gotten it within shouting distance just by ear.  But I saw how high my CO emissions were at idle and thought I needed to mess with it. There ensued a period of months in which I daresay I became the “expert” on tuning the ‘74 KF.

 

Mind you, it took a lot of replacement parts, fabrication of tools, some machining (new throttle body bushing), replacing the warmup regulator, installing an AFR meter and many hours of measuring, checking, rechecking and cursing every joint of the thing, and erring repeatedly at the procedure for setting the D-cam, only to find in the end that my super-rich idle and super-lean acceleration had more to do with my timing than my fuel system.  My 123 had advance-on-advance due to physical setting.  After getting the timing right and reaaallly learning how to adjust the linkage and set the pin in the KF I got the thing running more or less right. Still needs some gas at cold start, idle is too rich (frighteningly til it warms up) and flutters  up and down by up to 60 rpm at times (should have replaced both throttle body bushings?), but ”liveable” now. 

 

In the end I felt lucky, but  hardly felt like an expert.  In the end, all the useful advice I got was in posts right here on the forum.  This is an incredible resource for the DIYer.

 

Happy to help you advance your project if I can.  We can discuss options further off line.  PM me if interested.

Ken

[Sean Murphy]

That is hilarious, Ken. 

I knew I saw Zouave somewhere!  I saw it in your signature from your reply on Tuesday to my other post that documented the saga of trying to get this car going.  And that reminded me that you and I went back/forth last June, looking for recommendations then as well!

I'll shoot you a PM... really appreciate it.