Weber carb?

[marco]

I picked up a spare engine yesterday and fitted to the stock inlet manifold was a weber single choke carb, very similar to the solex pict 34 carb. It's id or model no. is W-224051, apparently it was an option about 25 yrs ago. Anyone any experience with it?? is it worth keeping?

 

[marco]

Anyone??

 

[Trikky2]

AFAIK it was a replacement carb offered back then and is fairly uncommon so yes I would keep it.

 

[Doris]

interesting post!

Trikky,curious as to what would be the reasoning behind VW offering an option on the carb ? when or why might a VW customer prefer a webber over a solex for example? climate? altitude? sport option ?

or was it simply the same thing,just a different manufacturer,e.g. Bosch/beru/hella etc

cheers - Rob

 

[marco]

The guy I got the engine off seemed to think it was a performance enhancement, so I presumed it was a progressive weber carb but appears to be much the same setup as the solex. After googling it it appears to have been an aftermarket option offered by the forerunner to gsf. Maybe it was easier to set up with aftermarket exhausts as the engine had a empi quiet pack fitted.

 

[Trikky2]

By option I dont mean it was a VW factory offered option. It was an after market option - much like weber and other carb manufacturers offered their versions of replacement carbs for some of the big volume sellers, trying to tap in to more of the car market.

Across various car manufacturers there were of course occasional times when such replacements were used in production, if a strike or some other problem at a carb factory threatened to stop vehicle production.

Nikki and fish were more common aftermarket carbs in the UK, your weber was more common in the US and is a period replacement - quite rare - there are a few listed on the net.

 

[marco]

Cheers Trikky, will 'árchive' it with the rest of my goodies that will be refitted or needed later on. Probably needs a good clean though, it came off the oiliest engine I've ever seen :shock: .

 

[Trikky2]

Cheers Trikky, will 'árchive' it with the rest of my goodies that will be refitted or needed later on. Probably needs a good clean though, it came off the oiliest engine I've ever seen :shock: .

:lol: Oil is a good preserver - you may find its in pretty good order :lol:

 

[marco]

Cheers Trikky, will 'árchive' it with the rest of my goodies that will be refitted or needed later on. Probably needs a good clean though, it came off the oiliest engine I've ever seen :shock: .

:lol: Oil is a good preserver - you may find its in pretty good order :lol:

:mrgreen:

 

[spoonerdtg]

theirs a guy on vzi after one of these carbs ?