Fuel Injection or Carburetor

[WestfaliaMike]

Bought my van with all the fuel injection removed. It was a failed project from the pervious owener. He had all the parts to converted to carburetor. I continued with his idea, finished with everything, got it running pretty good.

The question, I have a parts van with everything to convert it back to Fuel Injection.

So fuel injection or carburetor?

[chompy]

Fuel injection all the way. Just replace the vacuum lines and any other ancillary parts when you install it and you'll notice the difference right away. My van originally came with a carb. While I actually prefer working on carbs since they are nice and basic, the fuel injection just makes more sense and gets better gas mileage. Not sure if you need to pass smog, but thats another reason to switch back to efi.
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'81 Westfalia Subaru EJ22
Manual Transmission

[WestfaliaMike]

Thank you. Anyone else?
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1981 Vanagon Westfalia
1983 Vanagon Passanger (Parts Vehicle)
2016 Passat TSI

[Abscate]

It's all covered in post number 2
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[delmar acer]

[MarkWard]

Hello, there was a recent thread where a member had dual carbs and hot the engine was hard to start. Consensus seemed to be boiling fuel was flooding the engine when it shut off. It was a tight fit under the vanagon deck with air filters. Did not hear back from the member what he ended up doing.

For dual carbs to work, the engine needs to have 4 equal cylinders to get a good tune. They also need to be properly jetted for your application. Carb linkage is probably the most critical. It must be stout and able to let both follow each other equally.

For a complete fuel injection setup you will need to shop around for a used system. They are out there.
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[the joker]

There is a factory setup , used in europe mostly, center mountd Solex pic 5 with heated manifold

maybe abe to find one here or canada.


I have been running it for years on my 84 westy t25 2.1l

[WestfaliaMike]

Ill be honest, im pretty happy with the way mine runs. No issues except a little finicky when starting sometimes.
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1981 Vanagon Westfalia
1983 Vanagon Passanger (Parts Vehicle)
2016 Passat TSI