CraigJ
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 10:23 AM |
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What bike carbs for a 1600cc?
What size bike carbs would people recomend to fit to a 1600cc twin cam car engine?
Thanks.
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BenB
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 10:26 AM |
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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...
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wilkingj
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 10:27 AM |
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What is the Engine, make / model?
It would partially depend on whether its a 1600cc plodder, or a 1600cc 8k rpm screamer.
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
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coozer
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 10:30 AM |
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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.
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1980 Z750
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CraigJ
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 10:38 AM |
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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?
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CraigJ
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 10:44 AM |
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sorry the engine is a 1600 16v k-series
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indykid
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 11:22 AM |
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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
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will121
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 11:37 AM |
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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]
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CraigJ
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 11:56 AM |
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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.
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oliwb
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 01:14 PM |
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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.
If your not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room!
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whitestu
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 01:21 PM |
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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]
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dickie b
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 03:23 PM |
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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..
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RichardK
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| posted on 2/9/08 at 06:11 PM |
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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
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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