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Posted by: jimkelly May 28 2016, 12:32 PM

I was thinking maybe a Harley 40mm carb might work?

I figure a motorcycle type carb and be used in place of the throttle body?

I have a few suby ej22 engines and thought i would fool around with carburation and with using stock ecu/fi too.

http://www.randakksblog.com/single-carb-conversions/


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Posted by: Mike Bellis May 28 2016, 12:46 PM

Would work like a Pinto carb on a T4 motor...

Posted by: mgp4591 May 28 2016, 01:03 PM

Exactly - why would you go carb when FI is the real solution??

Posted by: jimkelly May 28 2016, 01:14 PM

I plan to use a suby engine and trans and its FI in my 1975 car. but i have an extra engine and thought it would interesting to see what a single carb and megajolt can do on a ej22. I am not expecting a carb to be better or even very competitive to FI but the engine should run somewhat decently as does a type4 with single carb does.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFdcY-DqqI

Posted by: 76-914 May 28 2016, 09:44 PM

No comment!

Posted by: rightpedal May 29 2016, 05:47 AM

Jim this might be one of those situations where the voices in your head are not speaking in your best interest.


BTW I am installing the 3.0 today should have your mounts back to you later this week. thanks

Posted by: DBCooper May 29 2016, 08:29 AM

I'm afraid you'd be getting yourself into quite a lot of work just to achieve mediocrity. Carbs work, of course, but a single carb with long unheated runners isn't usually a very good idea. So if you're going to build the MegaJolt why not take it a step further, keep it F.I. and just build a full Megasquirt? No fabrication that way, it's almost plug-and-play, and since you wouldn't need to buy a carb and adapt it the cost should probably be about the same. But if you just HAVE to have carbs then why not two?

Posted by: Chris914n6 May 29 2016, 11:51 AM

Stock TB is 60mm or so right?

Sounds like a bunch of time for half the HP.

Posted by: jimkelly May 29 2016, 11:59 AM

I hear you

good thread on dual carbed suby in vw bug

http://shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=132524

Posted by: jimkelly May 29 2016, 12:14 PM

at work I have 2 ej22's under my desk ($100 each). I have one more in my 1990 legacy 5spd awd parts car ($475) there that has at least one cylinder of bad compression, that I will pull engine and trans this week and get on a stand to start putting stock FI on it. and I have an almost driveable 1990 legacy awd auto ($250).

I went on a binge buying streak of legacy's and ej22 recently. about to delve into FIing them, one at a time.


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