Re: Bloody Carburettors

Definitely. It's stamped 2B on the side. And matches up to the pic of the 2B in the Haynes book.

I've decided that it's had a replacement engine. Most likely a 1.6 from a Scirocco.

Aye. I've looked already. £170-ish for a twin-choke Weber. That'll do me

- although I have a lead on someone in Carlisle selling used Zenith / Pierberg / Solex carbs.

Wouldn't cost a huge amount more to get a complete damaged 16V Golf and replace the complete engine, gearbox and nice reliable Bosch injection system.

Homer.

Heh.. Nice idea, but I really don't want the hassle of pissing about with 20-odd year old 'lectrics and a 16v loom :-(

So I'll have to stick with carbs.

1. Because I can't afford 2
2. Because 2x twin-choke Webers would be wasted on a 1.6 slushomatic

:-)

SteveH raved thus:

:: Looks like a shiny new twin-choke Weber might have to be ordered.

Why stop at one? :o)

Abo

What symptoms? Er.. Vacuum advance?

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Takes a lot of cranking to fire up, then dies again.

But if I get an assistant to hold a piece of card over the inlets, then it'll run roughly up to a few thousand rpm - as soon as you take the card away, it dies again.

Stick a couple of nails in the inlets, tape them there with gaffer tape and there you go :)

Pull out the nail, fit a nitrous solenoid and fire some gas in there. Find another little hole and fire some fuel in there.

Result? Better than before the wave.