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Most efi cars converted togas just run a simple old school Venturi mixer like a carb. Ecu still works ignition and thinks its running the injectors but the power to injectors and the fuel pump are cut. Gas injection is more efficient and better power though but more expensive.

SU carbs also don't have a conventional choke valve. If you choked an SU then very little air would flow past the vacuum hole and the mixture would lean right out. Instead when you pull the choke knob the jet moves down, having the same effect as the needle moving up and richening the mixture. The Stromberg CD carbs work on the same principal but have a rubber diaphragm instead of a piston to work the needle. Manual conversion is wildly variable on the car you have. I wanted to co9nvert my old Peugeot 604 to manual but as manuals were never sold in Austrlia it would cost at least $1000-1500 to get a flywheel, bellhousing, gearbox etc. I am almost certain that VR4 stands for 4wd.

2L Zetec? A bit pricey I know, but you can get all of the bits off the shelf and it shouldn't be any dearer than a SR20.

AFAIK HQ-WB spindles are the same. I think you will have to go for the custom spindles.

I find that every old car has its farvourite method of starting, for example when the Transit was running a Weber with aauto choke you pump the throttle once, let go, and start it. Now it is running a Stromberg it is 3/4 choke, pump 3 times, hold it to the floor and crank it. My Peugeot you give it 1/2 choke pump a couple of times and crank it etc. We had a car once where you never pumped it, nad you didn't use the choke, you just held the throttle to the floor and cranked it.

My sincere and deep apologies if I have caused you any offense. That was not my intention, and I didn't come on this board to annoy anybody. I am just curious about the old car situation in NZ, as it seems to be quite a bit different from the one here in Australia and as I am moving over there in a few months it is naturally of some interest to me. I will try not to ask questions which may drag a post off topic in the future.

When we junked the 3.3 in the Transit and fitted the 4.1 it had electronic on it. The old points on the 3.3 were crap, you always had to replace them, even new capacitor didn't stop it from chewing points. The electronic was a dream until it spat a module, a weeklater it spat the coil, then the rotor and cap, then the whole dizzy chucked it in. Now it is fixed it is a dream.

I've heard of Pug 406 discs being used. All the FWD Pugs have the same stud pattern as Escorts/Corties.

Didn't you guys have 2l Escorts in Kiwiland? Heaps of them over here. There is an old lady down the road with a tidy 2.0 auto Ghia.