POOR MANS TWIN CARBS

clinker42 Officially Full-On Dubber

381 posts · joined Aug 2008 · 3 Feb 2011, 3:56 pm

#824529

Hi Guys

Whats a single barrel carb that one could get two of and stick on 1600 beetle engines

Maybe the old strombergs that came out on the Holdens

Making manifolds isnt an issue, nothing some alloy and a tig cant fix.

Any ideas

sander288 "Bolt-on Master"

1,404 posts · joined Aug 2008 · 3 Feb 2011, 4:09 pm

#824530

old type 3 carbs; they would be perfect;

alot of VW shops have them lying around but I think any solex carb can be used as twin carbs providing you get the linkage to work

if your after old carbs talk to Boris at Vintage Vee Dub

Another carb to think of is the SU which were used abit in the 60's; from all reports they ran very well on 1200 bugs and have endless adjustment

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4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 3 Feb 2011, 4:21 pm

#824533

i used twin pict 28 solexes on my 1300 with home made manifolds,gave more grunt and a little more top end 👍

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 3 Feb 2011, 4:59 pm

#824538

Kombi Kim had a set of dual progressives 🤓

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2,672 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 3 Feb 2011, 7:47 pm

#824571

I still have a pair of twins off a 1500 wagon motor,a lot of years ago we used a pair of strombergs off the EH holden,with venturi reducers & adjustable main jets very successfully.The Ghia went very hard with these fitted,there wasn't much around that came close to it's performance in those days.Fortunately my hoon days are over & I am happy to just cruise .🙅

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8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 3 Feb 2011, 8:00 pm

#824576

Twin Type three with later type 2 34mm throttle plates. CLA special 😂

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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 3 Feb 2011, 8:23 pm

#824589

quad stromberg 😂

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9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 3 Feb 2011, 9:12 pm

#824600

Bizarre wrote:Kombi Kim had a set of dual progressives 🤓

Just one of them is bad enough, let alone 2 of the bloody things.

Main problem with using any random carbs as twins is clearance mainly to the fanshroud but also to the body.

Cheap kadrons come up on ebay all the time, I sold my set for $250

Or as mentioned type3 PDSITs if you can find a non worn out pair.
i ran them on my bug for a bit, theyre ok if you get the linkage working well.

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9,473 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 3 Feb 2011, 9:17 pm

#824601

Bizarre wrote:Kombi Kim had a set of dual progressives 🤓

twoguns use to run these on his splity

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1,990 posts · joined Sep 2007 · 4 Feb 2011, 4:53 pm

#824731

when you say "poor mans", how much do you wanna spend? rod sells kadrons for about $500 a kit.... I had one of his second hand kits on my baja and they were great.