hi is it possible to just blank off the holes where the injectors go, and make up and inlet maifold will it run on bike carbs?

bike carbs don't have injectors.......throttle bodies do. if you have a set with injectors then you have TB's.

guess you mean the injector holes on the original manifold, ou could also just get rid of that manifold and make a complete new one.

If that is what you mean.

sorry if i have not described this properly, ive heard that i can blank of the injector holes on the head? so then i can make a custom inlet manifold to make whatever bike carbs i get fit? but will it run ok?

Absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work.

great stuff!!!! just in the process of cleaning it up, and was thinking of what i could do with it!!

Thats not a "silver top" it looks like a zetec Se ?

???? the SE has a black plastic rocker top as i have one in my fiesta zetecs s 1.6, rocker in pic below

Thats not classed as the silver top as we know it ie mondeo escort etc, that engine is possibly from a fiesta or puma the standard zetec from escorts and orions would have the inlet manifold on the opposite side of the engine. There is no reason why you cant blank the injector holes though

Its still not what is known as a silver top.

The early black tops had alloy covers before going over to plastic.

Now thats a silver top

oright! very jealous of the engine! yeh it was out of a 2000 (w reg) fiesta zetec s i thought it was a silvertop but thanks for putting me right but arent the cam followers in my 'silvertop' hydraulic where as in my fiesta the later SE engine they are solid arnt they, and Re. the injector holes how would you boys go about blanking them??? regards ben

you couls have the holes welded up therer no reason why you couldn'd use he metal and just fill them provided you cleaned the area and scored the mating surface.

interesing opinions on engine, but thing best way ali turned blanks, then carbs, but why carbs? and not go for throttle bodies and EFI?

yeh i was thinking the same, the reason for carbs is that i think they are far easier to setup and they are cheaper??

That's defintely a early type Zetec SE, I've got the same engine lying around here somewhere.

Blank off the holes with alloy oversized plugs turned on a lathe, this way you could always revert back to injectors mounted to the head. Otherwise tap them with only the first 2 stages of a thread tap set and put some bolts in. welding is dangerous as it's a alloy head and you never know what happens on the inside, one weld blob inside the intake port and you're engine is game over

[Edited on 9/2/09 by Werner Van Loock]

thats what i was thinking, it would be dodgy welding near the valves!!! i think tapping the injector holes will be best and getting some grub screws and putting them in with a bit of threadlock on??