Old School carbs or EFI?

I had origionally planned to run EFI on my super bitchen 16v but I've stumbled on a super sweet dual webber carb setup for a good price

sooo I'm tempted to ditch converting from digi to motronic (oh yeah wiring is on a container from the other side of the pond now) and running carbs, but then I'd have that pesky emissions stuff to worry about

anyone ever gone crazy from planning too much on one of these builds?

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-Jason

Keep It Simple !!!!

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Cheers
M.Samli
Phoenix AZ
Gaylant VR4
EVO III GSR (Stolen)


Rallies are no place for traitors

ya didn't say what carbs and what size?
A mild 2,0 16 would putter round like a baby on 45s, a rally 2.0 16 should oughter have 48s.
Webers there jets for and knowledge of what to put in them right down stairs.

You could Megasquirt"n'spark it later.
The big thing is get some individual runners, carbs or ITB.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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these would be 48mm so they should be plenty large enough (they are coming from a 16v race car so the jets should be close)

now how do I get around emissions..... run the jets so small to run it lean? or just register it out in the boonies

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-Jason

mack73 Wrote:
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> these would be 48mm so they should be plenty large
> enough (they are coming from a 16v race car so the
> jets should be close)
>
> now how do I get around emissions..... run the
> jets so small to run it lean? or just register it
> out in the boonies
>
> 94 Golf
> www.Mack73.com
Sling on the emission crap once every 2 years.
Pop in a stocker motor.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

so carbs it is, they're being shipped on tuesday

I've got til 08 to figure out how to get it through emissions

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-Jason

You know in Washington state they don't test for NOX, only HC and CO2. And there's no visual inspection. At least 2 guys over here in Spokane have passed somewhat modified XR4Ti's without any emission components(EGR,PCV,CAT,Charcol canister,etc).

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Scott Manley
Spokane, WA
86' XR4Ti
37

exactly, as long as I can tune it a little lean as it comes off idle I should be ok - then richen it back up for mucho power.

now its time to dive into MSD wiring and carburetor tuning

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-Jason

I ran my carbs with the stock sparky stuff off a 1985 golf, simple simple simple and worked rather well I think.

I had the car licecned at my house on Lopez Island - no testing for me, I am sure it would have passed anyway-;

I never found any problem running carbs on my Golf rally car other than starting on a cold day with no chokes hooked up and a 315 deg cam so the air was running both ways in the intake at starter motor RPM. My car idled best at about 1200 to 1500 RPM, but I could get it down to 1000 when warmed up.

The carbs sound so good I think that alone is worth skipping EFI.

Also you should ask how many people I know who have not made rally starts cuse EFI issues...

Derek

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In the long run reality always wins.