Weber 44 IDF's - keep - or find original d-jet? |
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Weber 44 IDF's - keep - or find original d-jet? |
Gatornapper |
Oct 9 2017, 04:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States |
Questions re: Weber 44 IDF carbs:
1. Is anyone running these on a stock engine, and if so, how do they perform? National Carburetors kit for stock engines is 34 ICT's, lightly modified 40 IDF's, and only 44's on heavily modified engines. 2. What problems do you introduce using 44's? other than dumping too much fuel in the engine...... 3. Venturi's are 45mm, someone pointed out that one should use 40mm venturi's - is that with a stock engine? 4. Anyone run 44's and then convert back to EFI? How did that go? Labor cost? TIA, GN |
Gatornapper |
Oct 10 2017, 01:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States |
Ok, here's the plan:
1. Purchase D-Jet unit (complete) from bigkensteele; 2. Finish rebuilding existing Weber 44's, see how car runs. If I can tune carbs where car runs well (or find a tuner who can), get car in top mechanical and beauty shape and sell it & the D-Jet system with it; a strong position. NOTE: Local Porsche dealer service manager remembered every detail about this car and the carbs being put on. Said it was running perfectly when service was finished installing the carbs & there were no issues then. 3. If Weber 44's cannot be tuned so car runs well, I will pull them and install the D-Jet system. Invariably there will be issues, problems to solve. Big Ken said car was not running well when he pulled the system from his '76 2.0. If I can get car running well with D-Jet installed, I'll sell it that way and come out ahead - I'll sell the Weber 44's for a good price as I'll have them like new & they only have 2,000 miles on them. An even stronger position. 4. If a good Porsche mechanic cannot get the D-Jet system running well, I'll purchase and install the Weber 34 ICT kit, get car running well (should be very easy), and sell car WITH the D-Jet kit so new owner can install it if he/she wants to. I'll sell the almost-new, rebuilt Weber 44's for a good price. Not a bad fall-back position. Hey, TEAM!...... Sound like a plan? GN PS: Wife (wonderful, beautiful) normally lets me do what I want vehicle-wise. But she has strongly communicated she wants only one Porsche in the family. |
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