Ok John-
Thanks for the info. I'm still lacking the quantitative number I need to
justify this. I'll through in all the other mods. What's the additional
HP I can expect? Not doing this to race the car, but get better
performance, quicker acceleration faster. By the way at these low HPs I
don't consider this car race status (only within it's own league of
course) If this change translates into going from 100 HP to 150 HP
(equivalent to the fuel injection models) I'll strip my car right now and
do the change.
Thanks-
Pouya
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 07:56:27 -0500 "R. John Lye"
<rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu> writes:
>Pouya asked:
>
>> -What's the HP increase by doing this?
>
>Simply bolting Webers on in place of *properly functioning*
>SU's or ZS carbs will get you little to no horsepower. Of
>course, by the time most folks want to replace their carbs,
>they usually aren;t working well. However, without additional
>mods (headers at a minimum, if not internal mods), you really
>won't make much, if any at all, additional power simply by bolting
>on a set of Webers.
>
>> -Worth the cost? I figure $1,000 for the carbs and another $500 for
>>installation headache?
>
>Depends why you want to do it - there's the "cool factor", or if
>you're
>planning on racing the car and doing the other necessary mods to
>take advantage of them. Otherwise...
>
>> -Hard to maintain?
>
>No, not once they're properly dialed in.
>
>> -Is my car going to sound like a hot rod? Positive answer to this
>>question is enough for me not to do it :)
>
>You might get a little more intake noise (especially if you use
>low restiction filters like K&N) but that's about the only change.
>Of course, if you run headers, and a Monza or other low restirction
>exhaust and no air filters, it'll sound great!
>
>John Lye
>rjl6n@Virginia.edu
>
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