phatt20

i run city mechanical, and yep we deal with a lot of old school cars. k series toyotas are my specialty. i used to work with lloyd i think he works at tn automotive now. feel free to give me a txt 0272968777 , james.

i got escort metal polishers to do a bike carb manifold for me then they got it chromed somewhere, not sure where, come back mint as, but was bout 240$ odd all up. worth it tho it come up real good.

poor bugger, sorry to hear. hopefully the silly old duck doesnt have her license for much longer.

all the semi downdraft type bike carbs iv used have not been fussy at all what sort of angle iv mounted them on, its sort of one of the main advantages over sidedrafts in tight engine bays, quite often tweak them up or down for airfilter clearance etc. in saying that i only use late model/good cond carbs , with a factory bike fuel pump.

have txted you

didnt even think to take the camera, silly sausage. was a good day out.

could be keen but got kids that night so proly have to head off early.

for the love of god dont put su's on anything you want to go hard, if you want to use a cv type carb get some bike carbs.

i take mine down to around 6kg, while leaving heaps of meat where it needs it, then get them balanced. never had a problem with any of them, must of done over 30 by now, many of the engines they have been bolted to do 8500rpm +.

if your in dunedin area pop in and see me, james at city mechanical repairs, 90 bond st. 0272968777.

oh and bike carbs give ya more room non restrictive for air cleaners ( as long as they are the semi downdraft type)

iv used both, would almost have to say go the dellortos just for the fact you can buy an off the shelf manifold to suit so saves a bit of fucking round. most dellortos are gettin pretty long in the tooth tho so i would recommend buying new webers or similar. bike carbs tend to be better on fuel and are a lot smoother due to being a cv type carb, easy to jet, and cheap. so really depends on your fabrication skills / hook ups/ preference really. i would go sidedrafts on a 4age personally.

yep they have bigger venturis, and most are auto choke. lot of people sell 4k carbs as '5k' items tho so pays to know what your looking at.

the factory twin carbs work fine, just need to be balanced and jetted properly by someone that knows what they are doing. bike carbs are best bang for buck, but being cv type they dont have the same snappy throttle response as dcoe style carbs.

i too swear by this shit, run it in all my diesels.

seeing as its only started running differently after replacing gaskets/taking manifolds off , you would proly be best looking around that area, any vacuum leaks etc? not unusual to have shit sitting in the bottom of the carbs , and when ya take them of and on it can get stirred up and end up inside jets etc.

this^ cheap reliable set up is a malpassis carb turbo reg or similar, efi inline fuel pump, prepped 4k carb, limit mechanical advance (or fit boost retard diaphram) done a few like this, work real good.

nope, all 5 of the one i owned were injected. tiny wee turbos anyway, would be better with something a little newer too. gt starlet ct9 (?) perhaps? beaten

buy some baking soda and a cheap sandblaster, plug the hose into the baking soda and go for gold. will make that shit look new

in saying that however, if i dont have any of the preferred factory style links around i use the philspeed ones. they are ok.

what are the burton power ones like? not those overly complicated twin pull cable/linkage monstrositys? most of the mikunis that come out on 2t/18rg's, and anything with factory webers.dellortos have the wee link between carbs with a spring loaded balancing screw, least hassle, least complicated, easiest to adjust, and never really go out of sync once set. (and usually the cheapest way to go)

as in the ones sold by philspeed on the tard? yep they fit all weber/dellorto/mikuni dcoe style carbs. really are better off with the factory style link between the carbs and a bell crank on one end tho. as long as you put the throttle stop on the bell crank they are pretty foolproof and are easier to balance/stay balanced better.

james is my name, think i might know people you know perhaps.

weekend after i would of been in ,been waiting for a meat down this way too. cuuuunt .

fuck yes