its possible, you would be better off starting with itb's as thats prettymuch what carbs end up as once youve taken all the gubbins out of them. for k-jet to work ALL the air that goes into the engine must first go through the metering head which is where the plan falls down as thats where the restriction is (see below).... you would still need a custom manifold between head and carbs/bodies, and you would need some sort of plenum feeding the bodies and fed from the metering head.
when i was running k-jet on my 2litre 8v we spent a lot of time on the dyno (perk of the weekend job
) and eventually dicovered that the flap in the metering head was fully open at around 4500 rpms, (nicely ported head, hot cam etc) anyting over that it was causing a huge restriction, that engine is now running an ec1 from tdf power engineering and makes 152hp in the same mechanical spec that made a maximum of 139hp on k-jet (and to get it to do that took ages, was sh!te at anything but full throttle, and was very fuel/weather sensitive) in short a standard engine running k-jet with one of everything present and working is best left alone and at all other times the big problem with k-jet is, er, the k-jet.
to get port throttle breathing cheaply but at a cost of ultimate all condition accuracy carbs will be fine as long as you can get them set up properly, but bear in mind you will still be stuck with the same old ignition system where you can advance it at all times or retard it at all times but not fine tune any one point in the load/rev range. and predictably enough throttle bodies with a properly calibrated ecu controlling both fuel and spark are the top option, far better driveability and fuel economy, plus a decent ecu and loom, while seeming costly initially are a great investment for a tinkerer, if you go for carbs and then decide its not enough and want a little boost they will be exactly no use whatsover in a road car and heavily compromised in a fair weather track car too, a quality ecu can run prettymuch any setup you like, plus you can efi without thebodies to save cash at first and give everything a good shakedown.
didnt notice if yours is 8 or 16v, if its a valver then bodies, yep, cool. 8valve, forget it. they will be sat pointing the wrong way, shrouded by the bulkhead and breathing hot air from around the exaust manifold unless you make a plenum which is surprisingly hard to do without subtantial loss in breathing efficiency..... and back to square one. thats before you consider the manifold from bodies to head, ports 2 and 3 exit the head very close together and due to the lack of room you cant get a long enouigh runner to make them flow the little bit of hot air that seeps past the bulkhead at all well.
if it IS a valver though ive got a lovely set of bodies with injectors and rail for sale.....
