Jamie's Spitfire

A friend of mine Jamie came over this morning with his 1500 Spitfire so we could have a look at the carburettors. He was experiencing slight idling problems and lack of power. After checking the normal things ignition timing, spark plugs, points, etc we put the colourtune on the engine and it looked pretty good for the mixture. The timing was a couple of degrees out so we reset that to 10 degrees btdc and regapped the points. We took the car out for a spin and Jamie thought the car was running a little better. Time will tell if the changes are for the better. If that doesn't improve the situation we may have a closer look at the carbs, re-bush the butterfly spindles and balance and tune them. Overall the condition of Jamie's car is very good, the bodywork looks very tidy and in the sunshine this morning it looked really nice.