Bolt on performance advice please.

I have E plate Clipper, 1.8 carb and was thinking of treating it to some bolt on performance parts.
I was looking for a bit more acceleration to be honest but not sure if it's a waste of money buying performance air filters and the alike.  

What are your opinions experiences?



    

it all depends on how much money you are willing to invest for the folowing you can easily spend a grand:

webber replacement carb (200ish new)
4 branch manifold (200ish dont go for cheap rubbish)
and a exhaust sytem to match (200ish)
cam and adjustable vernier pulley (200ish again)
airfilter, k&n or green element replacement (40quid ish)
power rohr pipe (20wuid ish) this apparently just gives you a nice throaty sound  :dontknow:  but it does make the engine bay look abit cleaner  8)

or you can dump the single prgression carb and bolt on a manifold and rn it on twin 40's again about 150ish for the manifold and anything from 50quid upto 400ish for the carbs dependin if they need a rebuild or how lucky you get on ebay,

anything is possible mate, personaly i noticed a diffrence with a 4 branch ashley manifold (got for 40quid NEW!!!! of ebay  8) its amazing when people spell things wrong!) a brand new super spring full system for hundred quid  8)  and a k&n panal filter for a fiver looked new  8)  it feals like it revs alot more freely and pulls abit better, my mates got a cab 1800GTi same as me and mine pulls away.

the other thing is you can do for my favrouite price FREE!!! is advance your timing slightly on the dizzy, but if you dont know what your doing dont touch it as you can make the engine pink and do some damage, i dont use timing lights to set the engine up no more as i find you can get it to perform alot lot better if you set it up by ear. advance it drive it down the road, if it pinks get out and back it of a tad, test again, keep doing it get it as far advanced as you can without it pinking.

other things you can do is a audi throttle body and warm up regulater to match the throtle body (i dont know alot about tese sure someone can help me out here)

audi throttle won't fit a carbed engine.
a carb head has 38mm inlet valves and the gti head has 40mm. you can use one of these and blank the injector holes. port matching manifolds is quite simple and worth while. exhausts, air filters and cams will all give extra power though the cams are not quite as straight forward as that.
 a kent gs2 for example gives about 14bhp extra. that's only measuring peak power though! you'll lose power lower down in the rev range to gain power in the upper range.
 most people start with an exhaust and air filter and don't go much further than that.
 it is worth making sure the set up you have is all running tickity boo.

i'm selling a piper 285 cam for just ?110  8O

See the for sale section…

cheers, Chaps for taking the time to respond.  

Hey there mate there is also a head? 1.8 carb is the same block as the gti. I've got a stage 3 port and polished big valve head from tsr. ?600 new. Im looking for around ?300 but i am open to offers?

If your intersted let me know.

welsh_man@hotmail.co.uk