bike carbs on mk2 8v

[retromk2craig]

hi
i need some help i have been trying to find out about bike carbs for a while  and would like to fit some???
but i know very little... i need help with what parts are needed.. i understand that i will need a manifold made and can get that done no probs... i need to know what carbs are best. measurements for manifold... and anything else need.. i am clueless any help would be wicked... 
cheers craig

[sidecarphil]

ring Bogg Brothers in East Lutton Yorkshire , 01944738234

they did mine for me

[retromk2craig]

what do they deal in?? also im in the dorset area so its a long way away from me? cheers

[Horney]

I think if you send them the carbs they jet them for the spec of your car and build a manifold to fir them to your car.

Carbs are not the best thing on an 8v as they're located at the back of the engine bay. Ideally you want a cross flow 8v head but if you're sticking with what you got at least knock up a heatshield between the carbs and the exhaust manifold.

nick

[Diamond Hell]

Not again... 

Carbs..... replacing injection..... over an exhaust manifold.... really?

[fishnchipsx2]

Personally, wouldn't bother on a counterflow 8v, unless it's already had some major work done to it.  Especially if it's already on injection.

Wouldn't bother with Bogg Bros either, unless you have cash to burn!  Would rather get a local welder to knock one up from steel, it's not difficult.

Any pics of your motor? Might recognise it - I'm from Ringwood.. 

[retromk2craig]

sent you some pics off my car, is yours a mk2? have you fitted carbs..

[fishnchipsx2]

Very nice!  (Look like you need to tie up a handbrake cable tho!)



(I've put up the pic for others too see if you don't mind - there's a guide somewhere in the help section of the forum which explains how to do it yourself if  you're not sure...)

Mine is a mk2 as in my sig... I haven't fitted carbs to it, but have done to a mate's mk1 (a VERY low and loud light-blue one you may have seen around - but that is a crossflow 1.3, so well worth fitting bike carbs to).

Get yourself over to www.tidyvag.co.uk, they're a good bunch of guys based in and around Poole (a couple from Verwood too) - well worth getting yourself down to some of the meets if you haven't already. 

[retromk2craig]

i will get that clipped back up car is in garage at moment dont use it in winter months. yer i will do that, do you got to any shows, i need a group to tag along with. when they convoy up there.
do the meets still happen at holes bay?

[fishnchipsx2]

Yerrp, they organise convoys for most shows thru the summer, normally leaving from Picket Post, Ringwood or Rownhams, Soton.

Never heard of the Holes Bay meet... but TidyVag meet in Poole one Sunday a month (can't remember which one tho), and most of them head up to SoVag in Southampton, which is a meet in a multistorey on the first Monday of each month.