Date:         Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:32:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Rouby <mikerouby@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Rouby <mikerouby@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: WBX Carb conversion?! - Still a Hoax!
Comments: To: Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To:  <44F34614.7010902@earthlink.net>
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Mark,

  Pls call West Coast Core.  Apparently, they have done this before.  Let us know the outcome.

Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> wrote:
  Sadly, what they said is not true. The stock 1.9 FI manifold runners
have NO webbing. They are welded at the head end into a large deep
casting that bolts to the head. This casting is what sets the spacing on
the runners. They are free from each other all the way from there to the
plenum. It is an extremely rigid assembly.

Mark

Mike Rouby wrote:
> 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 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
>



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