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 Nitram_Ztilad
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| posted on September 17th, 2004 at 10:30 AM |
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Weber on a 2.0l motor
Have any of you Kombi people had any experience with fitting a single Weber carb onto a 2.0l aircooled motor ? I've been offered one and I wondered
if it's going to be any improvment over the standard twin Solex stuff. I havn't seen it but the bloke says it has a branched manifold, and the carb
sits over the top of the motor where the air filter box would ordinarily be. Does anyone know what the effect is likely to be on performance and
ecomomy ? Are they straight forward to get the jetting right ? What are they worth second hand ?
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| posted on September 17th, 2004 at 11:43 AM |
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these conversions frequently become available, & are quit common in the US, initially they seem attractive , but the high airspeed through the
primary venturi cause frequent icing problems, the Type2.com forum in the US is full of info (& problems with this conversion) most of these
conversions probably come up for sale as they gave problems for the previous owner, I have twin 32DIR webers fitted to standard manifolds , they
barely cope with the freezing problems, same as when I isolated the central idling system from the standard Solexes, I beleive this is one of the real
reasons for the central idling system, which bypasses the throttle butterflies
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| posted on September 17th, 2004 at 12:34 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Nitram_Ztilad
Have any of you Kombi people had any experience with fitting a single Weber carb onto a 2.0l aircooled motor ? I've been offered one and I wondered
if it's going to be any improvment over the standard twin Solex stuff.
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Ah, Grasshopper. The age old question! As kombikim said there is lots of info about this conversion both on this site and os sites.
I have the single weber conversion but it came with the kombi so I can't give you a comparison. The biggest weakness is the icing particularly when
it's < 10 C. I hope I have addressed the icing by sticking on an air cleaner from an old mazda 323. I don't know if it's solved the problem b/c
one of the rubber boots on the inlet manifold split and I'm waiting on replacements.
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Nitram_Ztilad
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| posted on September 17th, 2004 at 12:41 PM |
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Thanks for the info. Yes I guess I am pretty green.
My 1600 Kombi used to get ice on the inlet manifold on its first run on a cold day. It wasn't a really big deal: it'd just refuse to run on small
throttle openings, or idle. If I turned the motor off after a few miles, and parked it for a minute or two, the heat from the engine would spread up
the manifold (beautiful to watch) and after that it'd be OK. Is icing a bigger problem than that with the Webers ?
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| posted on September 17th, 2004 at 02:06 PM |
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the same
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| posted on September 28th, 2004 at 05:02 PM |
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i will be keen on this post as i have been offered the same although it would be a single 48 weber on a 2lt '76
KEEPING UP WITH TRAFFIC IS OVER RATED!!!!!!!!!!
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