Thinking about picking these up from a customer. Anybody used this setup before? Anyone know if rebuild parts are available?
Messed with downdraft Webers on VWs in the past, and side or down draft there pretty much the same in design. Infinitly tunable, between jets, emulsion tubes, changable venturies etc. but they can get kinda pricey. Parts are available from a variety of places (Inglese comes to mind.) In a major city like Houston, you should be able to find a foreign car parts store/shop that caters to the SCCA set or race VWs that will have, or can get, what you need.
Those are DCOE side drafts. They made a lot of those, and they easy to get parts & rebuild kits for. They dont like vibration, so its a good idea to insulate them from the Intake with rubbers ( like Alfa did ), or a O Ring kit (like Lotus and others did ) They can be very good on gas, if dialed in correctly. So pay a lot af attention to the Jetting, and make sure it has a good linkage that doesn't allow the carbs to go out of sync.
Kirk, thanks for the pic of a 'clean' version. Dig that linkage too, very nice. Thanks for the advice metalshapes. The guy has an old rod shop that's been shut down for 10/15 years, trying to score this with a number of other cool items (about 30 cars in the woods behind it).
I agree with everything said, great setup when done right. I have a Quad 4 motor with twin 45 installed and working well. I have found it is very important to get the chokes correct for the flow of the head before doing much jetting or tuning. If each barrel of the carb. is serving one cylinder it is necessary to get the choke big enough that the it doesn't want run too rich. good luck mike
48 DCOE's are easy to get parts for; still poular with the SCCA crowd. Go to PRI this year and you'll see lots of vendors with them.
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