Has anyone got experience of fitting bike carbs to a ford Xflow (1.3)?
I have seen these on ebay, but just wondered how easy are they to set up (what needle is required) and do they deliver better performance compared to
the stock carb, or twin 40s?
Ford Crossflow XFlow Complete Bike Carb Conversion Kit ZZR600 36mm Keihins | eBay
Cheers
Mathew
[Edited on 17/9/12 by puma931]
I would say that they will be just right for your engine
I have bike carbs fitted on my pinto and it was the best thing i did to my engine
Jacko
Got bike carbs on my 1680 crossflow. never had them set up properly yet but are brill. Only thing i have found is due to angle of manifold/carbs air fiter box is a prob due to being on curve of bonnet line . have yet to make up air sockets. Got mine from bogg bros all rejettted to suit.
How much do they roughly charge for their kit, and what does it include.
Cheers
Mathew
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Originally posted by dray13dad
Got bike carbs on my 1680 crossflow. never had them set up properly yet but are brill. Only thing i have found is due to angle of manifold/carbs air fiter box is a prob due to being on curve of bonnet line . have yet to make up air sockets. Got mine from bogg bros all rejettted to suit.
1300 crossflow can use smaller carbs
A manifold from Fast Dan is £160 and a set of 32 mm or 33 mm bike carbs would be cheap
Mine cost me just over 450 thats manifold (which is nice and polished) carbs as supplied striped cleaned and rejected with hoses and clips just bolt on and go.oh thats including post and the dreaded vat.
Very pleased with my setup, 30mpg instead of 20 with Webers.
Paid £60 for the carbs off ebay, £100 for the manifold from a local engr co, and £100 rolling road to tune them.
Pics on my archive.
I recently bought a set off a 600 Honda for Just under £20 off ebay. Got them for this because they were wrongly listed as an air box
.
The manifold in that ad does not look like it's for an X-Flow engine.
The ebay listing is mine 
don't worry that it doesn't look like a crossflow manifold - I use generic pictures as explained in the listing
simply due to time (pics are all of my own work I hasten to add). One day I will go through all my listings and update them all but its no easy
task.
The ZZR carbs are nice and widely spaced making for a nice design manifold (not too cranked) and are actually near identical to the very popular ZX6R
(that aren't as nicely spaced).
See drawing here:
XFLW-ZZR600-010
If you are wanting a full kit or just manifold or anything inbetween at non-ebay prices drop me a U2U or email dan@danstengineering.co.uk.
[Edited on 18/9/12 by FASTdan]
[Edited on 18/9/12 by FASTdan]
USU sent.
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Originally posted by FASTdan
The ebay listing is mine
The ZZR carbs are nice and widely spaced making for a nice design manifold (not too cranked) and are actually near identical to the very popular ZX6R (that aren't as nicely spaced).
See drawing here:
XFLW-ZZR600-010
If you are wanting a full kit or just manifold or anything inbetween at non-ebay prices drop me a U2U or email dan@danstengineering.co.uk.
[Edited on 18/9/12 by FASTdan]
[Edited on 18/9/12 by FASTdan]
Fitted ZZR600 carbs over the weekend to my Xflow
[Edited on 15/10/12 by puma931]
Sorry to bump an older thread but is that fitted to a 1300xflow or 1600?
Did you have clearance issues with the distributor cap?
James
quote:
Originally posted by puma931
Fitted ZZR600 carbs over the weekend to my Xflow
[Edited on 15/10/12 by puma931]
I used a side entry dizzy cap, which I was using with Webers anyway.
[Edited on 4/11/13 by puma931]