What size bike carbs would people recomend to fit to a 1600cc twin cam car engine?

Thanks.

Carbs need to be more precisely fitted to the engine than throttle bodies (roughly speaking). The size of carb will depend on the estimated power output of the 1600 twink and that will depend on cams, head design, porting etc.

Do you know a rough BHP figure for the engine? If so find a set of bike carbs for a bike engine which produces slightly more power than the standard car engine (to allow for a few BHP possibly liberated by the bike carbs) and job's a good'un....

That's what I'd do anyway. Might be massively over-complicating it- but you don't want to over- or under- choke it...

What is the Engine, make / model?
It would partially depend on whether its a 1600cc plodder, or a 1600cc 8k rpm screamer.

No need to worry as the set up is the most important, some from a 600 should be fine.

Ask Bogg Brothers, they will give you the answer.

Engine produces roughly 111bhp as standard. but i plan to fit cams better exhaust etc and power could easly go up to 130+ so if i go for carbs that are allready running 125bhp+ i should be ok?

sorry the engine is a 1600 16v k-series

i've got cbr900 (blade) carbs on my 1600 pinto.

it makes 90 brake at the back wheels and runs cleanly all through the rev range.

the cv slides in bike carbs mean big carbs still run well on smaller engines.

tom

ive got ZX6R carbs on my tuned 1600 CVH and at 38mm should be ok for what you are looking at, the later ones like mine come already fitted with TPS to, fueling was easy to sort and runs well,

some pictures in archive

[Edited on 2/9/08 by will121]

[Edited on 2/9/08 by will121]

cheers guys.

ust spoke to bogg bros and they say 38-40mm will be fine so as mentioned above zx6r and r1's etc will be ok for me.

Cheers for the help guys.

I've got ZX7r's on a Bogg manifold on my 1600 pinto. Work perfectly with 175 main jets. I wouldn't pay too much attention to what the carbs come from as long as they are min 38mm diameter chokes and get them jetted properly. Oli.

I'll second ZX6Rs - They work great on my 1.8 Zetec, and they are cheap too.

Try to get a matching fuel pump as well.


Stu

[Edited on 2/9/08 by whitestu]

The K-series on bike carbs sounds intriguing - let us know more as thinking about doing same thing but on a 1.4 16v K-series instead..

Honda hornet 600 carbs for me, jetted to 1.7mm although may need to upto 1.75 but aren't doing that until I get my group buy jaw....not sure when that will be however....

Cheers

Rich