Throwing in the towel, Carburator conversion for 74 1.8 ltr |
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Throwing in the towel, Carburator conversion for 74 1.8 ltr |
downrange |
Jul 16 2019, 02:16 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 1-January 18 From: Pennsylvania Member No.: 21,747 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I am on my last nerve trying to get my 74 1.8 ltr L Jetronic fuel injected car started. Bypassed the seatbelt interlock to get the starter to work. Hot wired the fuel pump to get it working and still no go.
I am considering a carburetor conversion and see that Redline has a few kits. The dual carbs system has no choke and the single carb with electric choke has some distance from the cylinder heads. Anyone have any success they could share? |
Chi-town |
Jul 16 2019, 05:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 850 Joined: 31-August 18 From: Disneyland Member No.: 22,446 Region Association: Southern California |
The stock FI parts are over priced and don't really offer any advantage over a properly tuned set of carbs.
The old "different cam" theory is long dead as the part number is the same for our US market FI cars and the carbed cars in the EU market. Yes you can make more power with a performance cam but that's true on FI also. If you do carbs purchase a new set of HPMX (no cold idle circuit to deal with) from Empi, open the up and inspect and clean them. Dorking around with antique used equipment is not worth it (especially ancient Italian Webers that weren't right from the factory). Get a syncronizer and a wideband O2, set aside a day to drive around and tune then and you'll be very happy. |
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