The carby that is fitted to the 1600 twin port in my country buggy is a bit worse for wear. I have put a carby kit in it but the electric choke won't work. There is another electrical conection to an idle cut off jet thet has been butchered also. I think thats what it is but not sure as I can't find the exact modle any of the books I have.

Any way, what would be a good replacement???

can you post a pic cause i have had a little experience with stock carb and a few webbers as well working for my old man, and if i can not help you someone else will be able to

Thanks

Will post photo tomorrow.

I'm seem to remember from years ago that a Webber carby was avaialble in a suitable size and set up for a 1600.

yeah i had a 32/36 twin barrel on my bug years ago, and my old man and i mucked around with a 30mm webber but couldnt get it running well enough due to it needing a rebuild and unavaliblity of parts

38 D gas webber is very good or pic 34

True true.
Is it a stock 1600 engine?
All those suggestions are good. Just don't go for dual carbs if it is a stock 1600. It's expensive and performance seems to go downhill. Probably because the throats are too big to make a decent vacuum.
When I got my poor old S, it had the carb from a 1200 if I remember correctly. It even had a special adaptor to convert it to the smaller size. I still don't know why anyone would do that.

In all honesty, for a stock motor, I like the stock carb. The valves are the bottleneck in the 1600 anyway. It can't suck through much more because of its asthma.

34pict if its a twin port.

even the 30 pic goes really well on a 1600 tp

my 30 pict 2 was just rebuilt yesterday and i must say it performs rather well on my 1600 single port.

i got 150 km out of a stock bug with 4 people in it in tassie and it had a 30 pic

no way i could get to 150 with y 1200 gearbox in the baja.........at least without ruining my eardums

it was preetty loud but it was fun

It'a 1600 twin port.

So a 34 pic will work. Is it a webber? Does it have an electricly operated choke? What sort of $$$ are they new? or are they available second hand?

a 34 pic 2 is the stock carb of a 1302 and later, no it a solex yes is got the electric choke, my old man has a bucket of them cause due to a design fault some, not all have a flat spot in them that can not be tuned out. i say go the 30 pic it seems to run better due to the better manifold vacum it produces. but it needs an adaptor plate to run on the stock manifold