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DrDarby
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 Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject: New carb for an Autostick? |
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I'm working on a '71 A/S Ghia with a cronic idle problem. The car is a 55k orig mile virgin but I can't get the carb to wake up and I've cleaned and rebuilt it before. I can't find a new carb with the proper vacuum ports. Any ideas? Currently I have the idle jet loose and it will idle that way but it's a band aid fix.
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borninabus
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just drill a vac port. it's not hard. keifernet might have one. what type of distributor do you have?
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keifernet
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| Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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The correct flange # for a German Solex for auto stick for 71 is "282-1"... and if your running the DVDA still then that is what you would need... or a 72 is "282-2" and in 73 there were "281-4" which had generator linkage and "281-5" which had alt linkage... but the accel linkage is interchangeable so that is not an issue. These cores show up from time to time.
SVDA versions were the "412-1" ( late 73 )and the "428-1" (74)
There are probably a couple other odd numbers that are out there too I run across an odd one once in awhile...
The Bocar and aftermarket carbs have all the vac ports on them and are *supposed to work with everthing but we know how that goes.
You can drill out the port pretty easy if you have another German carb you like... but I don't see what is wrong with setting the idle pilot jet where it needs to be to run. I have done it for over 25 years on 34's... to me it's not a band aid... it fixes the problem of some monkey over tightening the shit out of the pilot jet at some point in the carb's life... and I'd rather have a German carb with that than a Kafer or Empi or Pierburg Chinese POS...   |
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59eurobug
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| Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| would his ghia still be a single port? i have a manifold and carb for an autostick with a single port engine |
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volkenstein
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DrDarby,
Done to death over on vwar .
http://www.vwar.org/forum/index.php?topic=608.0
If you want to retain the carb for orginalities sake...I'd say Keifernet is the man to rescue it!
Enjoy
Volkenstein
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