Carbs over injection?

I have a set of sidedraught DHLA 40s kicking around the garage at the moment (and a set of DRLA downdraught 40s for that matter).
I was just wondering if there is any advantage of replacing the injection on my 1983 1800 gti with these carbs (either set)?
Discuss please, I'm fairly new to watercooled!
Cheers,
Olson.

Is that dellorto launguage for what would be the equivalent of dcoe webber side draught ?? If so , no there is no point what so ever and you should give them to me asap… …. na not really , theyll give u good raw power and a bump up in bhp top end , they`ll need constant fiddling with normally to keep em dialed in due to the constant changes in atmospheric pressure , air temp , altitude etc etc and of course wont be so good on fuel . Before you change over though uprate to a mk2 throttle body (u`ll need to ramp and flow the outer edge of manifold to but will keep you busy on a sunday ) and 16v rising rate fuel regulator and finally an early 1.6 metering head . There is a better one though its off a 2.5 k-jet volvo but im unsure of the model to look for .n e way welcome to world od water cooled !! ps id only run carbs on a show car , a track car or a sprint car … dont hink i could drive with em every day !!

Yeah, Dellorto equivelant, although to be honest they're a much better carb than the Weber, and more drivable.
I like the rawness of twin carbs, I ran twin 40s on my oval window beetle and they were great fun, very loud and made loads of power.
By ramp and flow do you mean match porting and polishing?
Cheers,
Olson.
 

I'd go with carbs if you have all the gear to do the conversion, injection is too complicated for my tiny brain so I'd have carbs any day. As said there will be a slight power/torque increase, but there will also be more trips to the rolling road to keep them tuned and balanced correctly.

Besides, you can't beat the sound of a couple of growlers  

Yeah just engineers blu round the body , but u have to ramp the angle when your flowwing because there is not enough metal to get it 110% . i think that carbs are great if u can balance them yourself but i still prefere the constant reliability and versatility of injection .