1976 2.0 on carburetors?, Good bye Fuel injection? Options

[Mr.Vman]

!976 2.0 barn find, been sitting for yearsn no rust, good condtion. Going through brakes and chassis rubber, struts, shocks make a nice driver. Have not driven the car yet, has fuel injection, idle varies, vacuum leak? What is going on with no carburetors on a stock 2.0? Because of the camshaft timing carburetors do poorly? Is this true or a tale? Seems carburetors would be simple. Is this a myth of no carburetors on a 2.0? Thanks for the time and information. Steve V.

[technicalninja]

They were FI from the start.

Rare to see an original one still running on it.

Sorry that is inaccurate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I stand corrected, there are many still running the original FI. A common trend now-a-days is to reinstall the original FI and take the car back to stock.
One of the more common carb conversions is a center mounted progressive 2BBL.
Those are not real good!

you can still buy the kit new on Pelican.
https://www.pelicanparts.com/More_Info/SCAT...amp;ByPassCat=Y

WHAT IS "hens' teeth" rare is a barn find, "sitting for years", even starting on an original non-gone through FI.

Car that's been loved and well maintained, HELL YES, it's possible.
Not something that's been sitting for any length of time. Just the fuel itself is probably gone by 18 months.

My 75 1.8L sat 33 years. The first guys who woke it up didn't even try to make the FI work. They just stuck a brand-new progressive on it...

In my book the ONLY thing that progressive is useful for is an "initial engine and cam break in carburetor" used for the first hour of operation.

Progressives almost always work, just not very well from a performance viewpoint.

Well, I don't know where everyone is getting all this bad information from.

All the 2.0 liter 6 cylinder 914s had carbs from the factory (and there were thousands of them made).

If you happen to have one of those old 2 liter 6 cylinder 914s with those ugly OEM carburetors, please PM me, maybe we can make a trade for a better fuel injected 914. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Yes, modern FI is a good thing, but 914s did not have what we have available today (albeit with some hard work and expense). If you know how to tune them and operate within their limitations, carbs work just fine. They are a lot less expensive too, especially if you're not hung up on a name brand.

Jack, he did post 76...
I know, there was one 76 914-6 but I'd bet this is not that car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

Jack is right about the very affordable IDF style clones available. You can purchase WHOLE carbs for what a real Weber rebuild kit (with throttle shafts) cost.

Wouldn't surprise me to be able to create a kit, carbs, manifolds, linkage, air filters, fuel pump, gaskets, the entire puppy for under $500.
These would be Chinese in manufacture.

Personally, I'd go through those top to bottom BEFORE I ran them on an engine.
I'd bet Jack would too!
Real Webers, Dellortos, I'd use out of the box...