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1600 Type 3 Dual Carby engine horsepower?
bruizer - May 25th, 2009 at 08:42 PM

What is the horsepower of a 1600 Type 3 Dual Carby engine?


Brian - May 25th, 2009 at 10:31 PM

50hp


bajachris88 - May 25th, 2009 at 10:38 PM

what with the 1600's eventually pushed em up to 65hp then?

I thougth the twin carb tp would reach that, and it would be a 1600 sp single carb or sumfin that would only get 50...???


Joel - May 25th, 2009 at 10:41 PM

the 1600 twin ports were 65hp
that was with the 7.7CR
most have been rebuilt by now and not always still at that


type3lover - May 25th, 2009 at 10:54 PM

Spot on.

From the owners manual:


1500S - May 25th, 2009 at 10:55 PM

And the 1500 single port twin carb 8.5:1 had 66 BHP :tu: Also, the single port twin carb 1600 at 7.7:1 had the same HP as the dual port, ie, 65 BHP

DH


bajachris88 - May 25th, 2009 at 11:01 PM

funny enough, i was scratching my head when i watched this program earlier this evening saying the first series of the 'bay' style type 2 busses had 50 hp!

the only justification i thought was maybe that was wheel hp instead of engine....


grumble - May 26th, 2009 at 09:31 PM

from memory the 1500 in the bay had a governor under the carby to stop the mullets from over revving the poor old girls with the reduction boxes.This and I think a concave piston top gave a lower HP .I am not 100% sure of this though.


Andy - May 26th, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Type 1 powered Bay kombi's (available as an option right to the end) did have lower HP and single carb. It's all about torque curve in a kombi, not power!!!
For the same reason the 2L type 4 motor in a kombi is much nicer to drive than the 1.8L despite it was only ~2HP more at 70hp. Torque across the range was greatly improved though.

From my memory the rev limiter (different rotor) was aftermarket and not from new. Reduction boxes were splitties, pre '68, don't think Bay's had the 1500, just the 1600.