I have as far as I know a 1700cc engine, that was the capacity I was told when I brought my bug so I am assuming that it was a 1600 bored to somewhere near that size. The previous owner told me that before he let the car go it had dual webers and different cam installed but both were removed and sold separately. I was wondering what would be a fairly good road setup for my engine?
At present I have extractors, a scat fume circulation box thing for Dual carbs (I think) and an external oil cooler mount. I am guessing that these were all parts of the old setup.
I was planning on purchasing a set of Kads in the future, would these be suitable for my setup?
Phew I hope that isn’t too confusing lol.

Oh here a pic of it
sorry about the quality

Quoll

1700 is a hard one.
1600 (or 1584's) can be increased to 1640 (87 slip ins) or 1679 (88 slip in or machine in). Then bored to 1776

It could also be a Type 4 motor that is a 1700.

Can you give us the engine number.
It looks like a Type 1 motor.

I am guessing it has 88 slip ins

What is the carb on it?
What is the problem with it??

Strange the cam has gone cause they are not that dear ($100 or so) and means pulling the motor to pieces to get it out

If it is a 1679 then it is not the best as they are a thin walled but power making piston set up.
Just might having a bit of blow by early.

You could wack a set of kads on there for $500
or
you could save up twice that for webers.
or
save for a rebuild and make it a 1776 or 1914

It’s a 1600 type one engine, at present it’s got a solex-pic3 carb on it, the problem with the carb at present is that its leaking fuel, the two mounting threads have been striped so the carb isn’t held on all that well and the choke does not function. Oh and the fuel isn’t coming out of the mounting points but out of the top of the carb. Also I think the previous owner said he removed the cam because it was too hard to start the car on cold days.
I am removing the engine soon to replace the push rod tubes is there any way I can tell what capacity the engine is with the heads off ?

Yep

when the heads are off measure the inside diameter of the cylinders.

Also get one of the pistons to top dead centre and on the top of a piston is teh size stamped on the top.

A 90.47 would be stamped on the top if it was a 1776