Fish Carburetor Making A Comeback

Fish Carburetor Making A Comeback ENERGY Fuel-Saving Devices 6-3-35 The high-mileage Fish carburetor, notorious in the late 50's until it went out of production in 1959, is once again on the market. Mike Brown of the Brown Carburetor Co., Tacoma, Wash., is the man responsible for bringing back the Fish. According to Claude Corrigan, Brown's marketing manager, the early Fish carburetor sold big for its inventor Robert Fish. "It was installed on more than 1/2 million cars," he says. "The Fish eventually went off the market because of business problems in the company. We feel our unit is actually better than the ones Robert Fish built." Brown offers a guarantee that mileage will increase a minimum of 20% with the carburetor but Corrigan says they expect mileage to increase 30, 40 or even 50% on some vehicles. A key feature of the unit is that, with its adjustable jet size, it readily adapts to burning alcohol and other alternative fuels. "The Fish carburetor," explains Corrigan," is not a vaporizing carburetor like many of the high-mileage carburetors which experimenters have developed." The carburetor has six jets and just 17 parts, only three of which move, compared with hundreds of parts in some conventional carburetors. Because the jet size is adjustable, you can switch the carburetor from gas to alcohol, or kerosene or other fuels, in just two to three minutes. You can 'lean down' the fuel air mixture so far that no exhaust emissions will register on regular testing equipment. Or, you can set it for a 30% increase in horsepower. "This, however, would cause fuel economy to suffer," explains Corrigan, noting that race car drivers have used the Fish for years. The current model is designed to be used, with adapter plates, on any vehicle from a 225 cu. in. 6-cyl. to a 500 cu. in. V-8. It retails for $189.50. For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Brown Carburetor Co., Box 9333, 3701 54th St. E. Tacoma, Wash. 98419 (ph 801 571-9452, or 206 922-2228).

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