Excellent addition fella...cant beat the noise from carbs!
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Excellent addition fella...cant beat the noise from carbs!
Top purchase. Will keep an eye out here now.
Those japanese carbs should run a damn sight better than the pre-war Weber efforts, regarding economy & cold starts.
Cheers for replies.
Aye, im hoping they will run nicer than webers do.
Should have better throttle response/progression etc too, as there variable venturi. :)
I'd be interested to see the inlet when you have it. (Pics)
I'll get pics up once i get it :)
Edit-heres a pic Tom did when he picked the manifolds up from the maker.
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...id/2ltrxea.jpg
It'll be getting drilled/tapped for coolant connection, and brake servo. EGR is already blocked off(right hand side), and the left hand side will be cut off, as the 16xe head has a cast bolt on gallery for the coolant, seperate from the inlet.
And the runners will need a session with the die grinder to get them nice and smooth.
I might see if i can find another cylinder head, so i can then get the inlet matched to the head ports, re-lap the valves etc, then bolt the whole lot on my block. As i want the car to be off the road for the shortest time posible ideally.
What happened to getting an audi?? :P Reading through this makes me wish i never sold my nova.
Look forward to seeing the results mate
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Richie87
half of my audi budget has now been put aside lol
So audis off the cards for a while.
Hmm, after doing some thinking, mainly about costs(worked out this is going cost well over ?500), thats before having the carbs set up and the ecu ign map sorted....
Considering selling the carbs on..... :(
And just buying a mantzel or something.
I say keep at it. Fit the bits when you have it all ready to go.
Heads often pop up cheap.
From what I can gather you are in a fantastic position to play around with setups & tinker until your heart is content. Theres a few people wanting to run this setup or hoping to do it. You'll be one of the 1st. Likewise when you do get it running, the sound of the carbs at full chat will make it all worthwhile.
Atleast the car goes.
Not sure what to do.
I guess if i spent a few month getting the bits together the cost wouldn't seem as bad.
But i dont have the patience to sit about looking at things, i WANT them fitted like now lol
These fitted yet Ad? lol
As said above, keep them, the benefits should be well worth while. If i remember correctly you already have some cams? which will benefit the carbs even more?
Paul
nica love the car
Lol, no Paul.
I'll decide what to do soon.
Im picking up the inlet at Donny on Saturday hopefully.
Cheers Chubbston.
Picked the inlet up off Iainel today.
Will get pics later.
Will need some smoothing work, and some mods before i consider using it tho.
They look fapping excellent ad! Get 'em on! Toms manifold doesn't look too bad i have to say.
Aye, for the price saving/waiting time over Bogg bro's, they are worth it.
They do need some work before id use it tho(coolant passage drilling etc). And a brake servo union fitting
lookin good
wooo.. pave the way..
i like the look of that manifold and the carbs, i think i maybe brought it up along time ago but i'm sort of part way through doing the same thing but with zzr1100 motorbike carbs, which are keihin, i would have preferred mikuni's but somebody gave me these for free so i can't complain, i've been making my manifold out of steel just beacuse i have a mig welder and i have had plenty of hours welding steel and i've never had a go at aluminium, i've got a megajolt ecu so i'm going to go down that route, at first i was going to try and modify the rocker cover and bodge on a 1.3sr dizzy but for the sake of a few quid for the megajolt its got to be worth it! Do you know which ford's have the edis sysytem in them? i've got a J reg 1.1 fiesta with a dispak and that looks like the edis system but i'm not too sure? I will be very interested to see how yours develops, i don't get much chance to work on my car because i'm at uni, and my car needs a full respray before i get the engine put back in, i spent all summer patching holes and stitch welding and shedding weight lol, would you use an alternator from a small block 8 valve with the respective tensioner etc.?
maccas
I used a Late corsa 8v alt, off a 1997 1.2i.
The tensioner i use is a home made jobbie,Lol.
I "think" mostly 1.6/1.8s have Edis system, look for the edis controller on the bulkhead/inner wing.
il have to take a trip to the local scrappy and have a look around lol, as soon as i've finished the manifold i'll post some pics up if you want, i'm going to make it slightly differently to the one you have, i'm not going to include the cutout for the injector part because i think it will disrupt airflow, then i plan to fill that bit in on the head
maccas
some nice updates ad, have you got everything you need now then ??
i reckon you should do a how-to guide as you fit them
Maccas-Its harder to make the manifold with the injector cutout too.
Remember make threads/holes for the brake servo hose, and the coolant hose on the middle of the head.
Draper-Nope not yet, ive done a bit of a spending spree on other things recently, so have fook all cash atm lol
I still need quite a bit of stuff.
If someone offers me a cheap xe and conversion kit, it'll get xe'd and the bike carb stuff sold on lol
go for the white allys they look better on the car imo
:confused:
Ive had the white alloys fitted since May this year lol
Anyhow, quick update.
Noticed that the front indicators were getting ****ty looking/mouldy in the corners.
So i popped on ebay and found a set of brand new gm ones.
Bought them and received them today.
So got to work with "de-tangoing" them(removing the orange bulb filters)
How they started:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...w/DSCN0031.jpg
After removing the filters, much cleaner/fresher look to the front end. Will fit Silvertec bulbs too, so no orange bits on sight,Lol.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...w/DSCN0037.jpg
That is all for now.
How'd you do that?
Screwdriver, and a big fcuking hammer :)
The filters are just glued inside the lens, so just smash it in bits and remove with pliers,lol.
Stealing my idears again i see... ;)
Looks much better, hope you've got the silver coverd orange bulbs...
Will be Mr Benn ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Long Live The Nova
:plollolQuote:
Originally Posted by Benn
Looks smart :thumb: Do you take the lens off? or shatter the filter through the bulb hole? I wanted to make a smoked/clear set for when I back to mk2 :cool:
Shatter it through the bulb hole mate, and then remove the remains with long nose pliers.
Lol Knew i should post pics of stuff i do...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Long Live The Nova
Clear.. real clear is always best, like my rears...
cool stuff.. did the same with my old gsi years ago - but fitted those blue-look halfords bulbs that flash orange rather than silvertecs..
sound.. selling those carbs tho..?
Im in two minds mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by peester
The cost will pile up to fit them, and i'll still be left with carbs that will munch fuel.
But then again, they'll look/sound cool,and be pretty unique.
Might stretch the engine project out longer, to spread the cost(which isn't a massive amount in terms of engine tuning money)
And then see how if i can sort them for summer.
Its the ecu mapping/carb setup costs that are bothering me. Seeing as bike carbs aren't used much, nor is the megajolt ecu.
must admit, im straying away.. goin sbd/similar.. proper stuff. new or used..
i just spend ages looking through this from the 1st post till the last, must say, its a very clean and tidy nove, i hope you get the carbs on a set up right, you cant beat the sound they make lol
iain
yeah but jets and other bits and bobs are much cheaper to replace than for webers and stuff like that aren't they, and there are only 4 things to change in a motorbike carb providing your float needle and seat are large enough to flow a sufficient amount of fuel, you've got main jet (?3 each), needle jet(similar cost), pilot jet(also very cheap) and possibly the needle itself, and beacuse the venturi's are variable, u don't have to worry about buying a right set of chokes, i'd stick with them and get them on, i don't think you'll regret it, i can't wait till i've got my shell done so i can then move onto the engine and get a simlar setup done on mine
maccas
Yeah jets are cheap. If you only need buy them once(which is unlikely when you're trying set them up)
You only need change the main jet, apparently just fiddling with the idle screw is enough to get the idle mix ok, and the needle is adjustable by a small circlip, so you can fine tune the main jet.
But by the way a carb works, the fuelling is never going to be great. Which is where the bad mpg etc comes from.