What is the horsepower of a 1600 Type 3 Dual Carby engine?
50hp
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...???
the 1600 twin ports were 65hp
that was with the 7.7CR
most have been rebuilt by now and not always still at that
Spot on.
From the owners manual:
And the 1500 single port twin carb 8.5:1 had 66 BHP Also, the
single port twin carb 1600 at 7.7:1 had the same HP as the dual port, ie, 65 BHP
DH
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....
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.
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.