As the story goes, I've got a third generation family bike that I got from my dad. I traded an 85 Cadillac Sedan DeVille to him for it. I paid $300 for the car, and put some money into it over the years for maintenance, but it lasted me about 5 years. The bike has sat in the garage at my Dad's for the last 5 years or more with fuel in the carbs. It was varnished to the point where I couldn't get the throttle linkage to budge.. anywhere. I looked into doing the Randakk rebuild on them, but after I pulled them apart I found some stripped screws and knew it'd be more work than I was comfortable doing. So after doing a lot of research on single carb conversions, I decided I wanted the low maintenance and easier alternative.
I've learned a lot from everyone here just by reading up on it and do not take credit for any of this. I'm no engineer.
I'm converting using Tom's Carter Weber carb (32dft) and the VW intake manifold. I'm using the stainless steel grab bar for my runners, but will be connecting them to the intake elbows on the heads. (just using it as SS Pipe essentially) The OD of the grab bar is 1.25", and based off what I've read, this seems to work well.
I ordered my parts last week and just got them in this morning and I've already hit a road block. I ordered the VW Type 3/4 Manifold from jbugs. https://www.jbugs.com/product/3241.html
I pulled out my Carter Weber carb to bolt it up and test fit everything. The manifold seems to be different than the ones that I've seen on here. The Carter Weber Carb bolt holes don't match up with the manifold. I'm attaching some pictures to show what I mean. Basically what I'm planning on doing is turning those circle bolt holes on the carb into ovals, or slots to make things line up. I hope this makes sense. I'd really hate to send the manifold back since I've been looking forward to this for months. I had planned to spend the whole weekend working on the bike and getting it running.
Thoughts? Ideas? Should I ship the manifold back? Has anyone else experienced this issue?
I've learned a lot from everyone here just by reading up on it and do not take credit for any of this. I'm no engineer.
I'm converting using Tom's Carter Weber carb (32dft) and the VW intake manifold. I'm using the stainless steel grab bar for my runners, but will be connecting them to the intake elbows on the heads. (just using it as SS Pipe essentially) The OD of the grab bar is 1.25", and based off what I've read, this seems to work well.
I ordered my parts last week and just got them in this morning and I've already hit a road block. I ordered the VW Type 3/4 Manifold from jbugs. https://www.jbugs.com/product/3241.html
I pulled out my Carter Weber carb to bolt it up and test fit everything. The manifold seems to be different than the ones that I've seen on here. The Carter Weber Carb bolt holes don't match up with the manifold. I'm attaching some pictures to show what I mean. Basically what I'm planning on doing is turning those circle bolt holes on the carb into ovals, or slots to make things line up. I hope this makes sense. I'd really hate to send the manifold back since I've been looking forward to this for months. I had planned to spend the whole weekend working on the bike and getting it running.
Thoughts? Ideas? Should I ship the manifold back? Has anyone else experienced this issue?