What carb?

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SU or Webber

SU
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78%
Weber
2
22%
Nikki
0
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Re: What carb?

Post by trotter » Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:05 pm

SU for me too. My last sammy had one and it performed faultlessly for 2 years without me touching it. My new one also has one and although the adapter seems to be a bit of pipe bent at 90 degrees it still works fine
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Re: What carb?

Post by twiss » Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:32 pm

Mine managed to get my SJ to work and back for a year on 3 cylinders!!!
It wouldn't even start with the standard carb on it!
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Re: What carb?

Post by Tramp » Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:17 pm

I'm a weber man, I tried SU but didn't like how it looked in my engine bay, I didn't like how it messed up the airfilter & didn't like how prone it was to icing, weber slotted on and looks great & matches up with original parts

So weber for me

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Re: What carb?

Post by justaddmud » Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:33 pm

I would say if you go offroad a lot, SU is the only choice, good simple reliable carb, easy to tune, plenty of needle options airfilter adapters ect, just a bit of a faff to fit needing adapters or manifolds made ect

If it is power you are after, the webber is the way to go, my friend had a worked over 1.3 sj (ballanced lighened bottom end, head work cam ect, originally had a weber, got fed up of stalling on hills, and fitted an SU, had it setup on a rolling road, 85bhp at the flywheel, and he said it was slower than the webber, but as said above, hills and weber = :thumbdown:

I did have a nikki, (got one in my garage) and if you mount it the wrong way round, only floods and stalls going down hills :screwy: and not to bad on performance too

I see the yanks are using a side draft off of a harley (or something) basically a big single bike carb

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