weber's

[russell17]

has anyone done a weber conversion on a mk2 1.6 engine? i just wana know if they have a noticable effect on the way the car drives. my pierburg is in fine condition so before i shell out my entire lifes earnings on a weber i wana know if its worth it.

[Jay]

If your pierburg is running sweet, then don't bother changing to a weber imo. I've got a pierburg on mine and it runs sweet as a nut 

[Dec]

If your pierburg is running sweet, then don't bother changing to a weber imo. I've got a pierburg on mine and it runs sweet as a nut 

I have a weber and mine runs crap!

My guy at a local vw specialist said its more worthwhile fixing a pierberg if it goes wrong than replacing it with a weber (mine was done when I brought the car)

[danny_p]

If your pierburg is running sweet, then don't bother changing to a weber imo. I've got a pierburg on mine and it runs sweet as a nut 

I have a weber and mine runs crap!

thats because it's setup crap,

i've had plenty of m2 with 32/34 dmtls.   some ran really ghey but 5 mins with a screwdriver and sweet as a nut, defantly go better with a correctly set webber than they ever did with the pirburg tho.

[jamie_pyrite]

dec: Do you have your vac pipes set-up correctly? My golf with weber has been running rubbish until 2 days ago when I found out that my vac pipe connections were wrong!

You should have one going from the hot air flap on the airbox up to the side of the air box (metal nipple), from the black nipple a pipe goes to the back of the carb. The vac pipe that came from that little yellow and black thing, you just block this off.

Sorted my car out, runs perfect now

[IOWshaun]

i have put a weber onto my 1.8 with a defo improvement in fuel and a little on performance but runs much better on idle and responce i say dump the phithberg weber all the way 

[Dec]

dec: Do you have your vac pipes set-up correctly? My golf with weber has been running rubbish until 2 days ago when I found out that my vac pipe connections were wrong!

You should have one going from the hot air flap on the airbox up to the side of the air box (metal nipple), from the black nipple a pipe goes to the back of the carb. The vac pipe that came from that little yellow and black thing, you just block this off.

Sorted my car out, runs perfect now

Think the vac pipes are all ok, they look fine and the mechanic didnt seem to think they were wrong before

Cars really responsive to the throttle in nutral but is totally gutless all the other times! its got a slight misfire where i need a new distributor aswell List goes on...

[rubjonny]

if a webber is set up right it'll run sweet.  likewise if the pierburg is setup right it will also run sweet!  its a myth that a webber will give you more power and/or economy than a properly working 2e2. However a webber is much easier to tune to take advantage of any performance mods you carry out, plus any rolling road you take it too is much more likely to be able to re-jet it and fiddle without messing it up!
My old 1.6 had just about every fault possible with the 2e2, but once I fixed them all it ran just as smooth as any of my GTIs I've had since, and fuel economy was out of this world, especially paired up with the 4+e gearbox.

The bottom line is if the basic unit has not been fiddled with then its easy to diagnose and fix any problems.  If some backstreet mechanic has messed with the flaps and levers to try to 'fix' a problem then it needs a lot more head scratching, the hayes carb manual is needed here as it takes you through all the procedures required to reset all the complex inner workings back to spec.