Best place to get a carb?

My clipper's developed a new noise from the carb - fairly sure it's the carb itself letting air in, rather than the pipework. What's the best source for a new carb? I don't want to waste time on a rebuild if the prices aren't particularly high for the part, and it's presumably a Pierburg 2E2 of some flavour (EX engine).

Along the same lines, what options are there for exhausts?

You will be wanting to junk the 2e2 and fit a webber, i can do you a new in box webber for around £230 posted

Could be the base mount, much cheaper than a new carb!

recommend weber conversion!! £230 is a good price! :wink:

I appreciate the points about Weber conversions - I've found the complete kit new for about £230, all parts included, so I can see what that'll cost - but I'd prefer to have the car set up as it was originally.

I've seen NOS Pierburgs on eBay, but have to get the right one - last one was for an Audi 80.

How much of the vacuum piping disappears with a Weber? Do I lose the green reservoir and so forth? I know I lose the autochoke so have to bypass that bit of the cooling system.

My webbers are £230 deliverd and are new in box full kits.

As for what you lose, all the pipes on the carb, the green ball, some of the water pipes. You gain a few bhp from a webber aswell

Okay, coming around to the idea of putting a weber on instead of replacing the 2E2.

I'm thinking:

Weber and a chrome pancake-style open air filter. Is there a suitable kit for that, losing the black VW airbox and so forth? Manual choke is presumably dead simple and fits into the blank space in the dash without any mangling needed?

Also, does a weber carb then mean that a GTi silicon hose set would fit straight in?

Setup is the other question. I'm assuming it'd run out of the box, but need tuning to get it all adjusted correctly?

Then I just need suitable downpipes and exhaust system to get rid of the blowing joints and make it sound appropriately nice…

Does anything odd need doing with the wiring?

no changes to the wiring

there is a weber conversion fron crazyquiffs, or fast road cars. also think funkstar can get them

the manual choke version will cost you around £230 ish

with the kit come all the pipe and choke cable so it will just simply swop over.

a pancake filter will cost you around £60 ish and the brake come with the kit to attach it

they say they do come set up out the box but mine was running rich but still ran fine, if you take it to a garage they won't charge alot to set it up as they are so easy to do so

the silicone hose kit will do you coolent hose so this wont interfer with the carb at all and i think you can get a carb kit reather than a gti

hth

Failing that i have a used one here £150 posted. runs as good as new.

a pancake filter will cost you around £60 ish and the brake come with the kit to attach it

Or I got one from Aldon Automotive for less than that assming it's the same style…

My Bible

(never got round to fitting mine yet though)

The golf ones look like this

That's the thingy I want. One of those.

If that'll make my Golf sound better, not cut out when cold, and generally not make a sound like a kazoo (a sound like a purposeful sporty engine is fine) then that's what I need.

My old Mk 1 Escort 1300 Sport had one of those and a twin-choke weber. Sounded awesome, you could hear it so well through the holes in the floor

Yep you get a nice induction rasp from the filter. i also have one for the weber.

^^ Hmm that's interesting.  Part of the reason I never fitted mine yet was that I was a bit dissapointed -there didn't seem to be much of a rasp or bark off the DMTL without the air box fitted.  Thought it would be allot louder but there just seems to be more of a hissing sound off it than anything else?

Mostly they just hiss if you tune 'em up right. If you want rasping or barking, overfuel, mess up your timing and fit a lumpy cam