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To carburate OR to not carburate |
sixaddict |
Dec 26 2021, 03:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 856 Joined: 22-January 09 From: Panama City Beach, FL Member No.: 9,961 Region Association: South East States |
Restoring a 70 which will have a 76 2 liter. Currently has factory injection but guy who will be building engine for me is anti injection. I know this becomes personal decision but could use some input on pro/cons. Cost is a concern but so is practicality and performance.
Words of wisdom please. Merry and Happy to all! |
Type 47 |
Dec 31 2021, 12:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 785 Joined: 1-June 10 From: St. Louis, MO Member No.: 11,790 Region Association: None |
My new year's resolution is to get my 914 put back together and complete the restoration, so I'm debating this exact thing.
Some very good points here for both sides which doesn't make the decision easy. I have a 75' 2.0 with 62k miles and the original engine that has been converted to IDF 40's (not sure cam was changed). Back in the day we put the FI in a box when something went bad. It had so many components and there was little expertise, except at the dealer, back in the day; shops didn't want to work on them and carbs were an easy solution. understood that peak performance only comes with skilled tuning for the dual carbs. I do have the original FI in a box that came with the car, but obviously one of the components is bad and would require a big effort to trouble shoot and get 47 year old parts to come back to life. I've done a color change so I'm not hung up on it affecting the value, it will never be a concourse level car. It looks like a rebuild of the Webbers and engine will be on my to do list. |
JamesM |
Dec 31 2021, 03:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,979 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Kearns, UT Member No.: 5,834 Region Association: Intermountain Region |
My new year's resolution is to get my 914 put back together and complete the restoration, so I'm debating this exact thing. Some very good points here for both sides which doesn't make the decision easy. I have a 75' 2.0 with 62k miles and the original engine that has been converted to IDF 40's (not sure cam was changed). Back in the day we put the FI in a box when something went bad. It had so many components and there was little expertise, except at the dealer, back in the day; shops didn't want to work on them and carbs were an easy solution. understood that peak performance only comes with skilled tuning for the dual carbs. I do have the original FI in a box that came with the car, but obviously one of the components is bad and would require a big effort to trouble shoot and get 47 year old parts to come back to life. I've done a color change so I'm not hung up on it affecting the value, it will never be a concourse level car. It looks like a rebuild of the Webbers and engine will be on my to do list. Probably wouldn't be as much of an effort as you might think. These days a lot more is known/documented about d-jet, there are really only a couple of the major components that fail in a way to cause serious issues and the info is out there to bench test the components so its fairly easy with the parts already off the car. BUT, given the age, limitations, and availability of new parts for d-jet I feel like you really need to be committed to the idea if you want to go down the road of putting it back in. Probably worth the time to at least figure out what is wrong with the system you have though, I would bet its probably something simple like a torn MPS diaphragm or bad head temp sensor, both of which are very easy to determine on the bench. |
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