Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:30:24 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Rouby <mikerouby@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Mike Rouby <mikerouby@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: WBX Carb conversion? Hoax! - NOT A HOAX
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Marc,
I called West Coast Core (as I suggested earlier) - And they let me in on the "secret" on installing this.
Your stock manifold runners have a welded webbing that hold them apart from each other.
You must cut the webbing.
Then the clamps will make up for pipe size differences.
Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
You can make it work, MAYBE , by getting some beetle air intake manifolds (just the smaller part
that screws to the head) then run the air tubes to the carb throat etc. My mechanic (Jeff, who is
lurking on this list now) jerry rigged this set-up on my 91 syncro that worked fine, I have the
Solex carb from his set up, if you want it ($50 plus shipping). Jeff, here's your first posting
opportunity :-)
As I think I said in a previous post, the trick to a good carb conversion is getting the real VW
carb air intake manifold. My set up with a Weber DFEV carb works nearly perfectly! m
--- Mark Drillock wrote:
> After this thread last week, I ordered one of these Weber K297 kits to
> use on an 84 1.9 WBX engine. It does not fit, no way no how. While even
> the Weber site lists it as working with the early watercooled as well as
> the aircooled Vanagons and earlier Type 4 motors, it does not. The
> manifold adapter in the kit does not line up with the manifold runners
> of the 1.9. Not the same size holes, not the right hole spacing. The WBX
> runners are 1" closer together than the kit is set up for. Sigh.
>
> Mark
>
> Mike Rouby wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > The kit for the watercooled-carb-conversion does not come with an intake manifold, as it
> reuses the stock VW one. On watercooled engines, the manifold air box comes off the intake and
> is replaced with the supplied adapter plate. Then you bolt the carb to the adapter plate.
> >
> > Voila!
> >
> > Mark Drillock wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the required intake manifold is not included in the so
> > called kit. The intake port configuration of a Type 4 head is not close
> > enough to a waterboxer head for the same kit to fit both if the manifold
> > is part of the kit. There is not waterboxer manifold available from the
> > aftermarket, AFAIK. The Type 4 aircooled manifold is available.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike Rouby wrote:
> >
> >>Here's a carb kit for watercooled vanagons:
> >>
>
>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Weber-Carburetor-83-84-85-Volkswagen-Vanagon-Van-Type-4_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33550QQihZ001QQitemZ110017817234QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1V
> >>
> >>$351 with free shipping
> >>
> >>(Excellent price IMO)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
> >
>
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