What carb?

[trotter]

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

[twiss]

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!

[Tramp]

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

[justaddmud]

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 =

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 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