[bulladean_]

Anyone on here running a screaming eagle Carby off lowrange with much success?

[want33s]

I can't think of anyone on here that has fitted that carby and kit.

US$359 for the carby and how much for the 'kit'?

For that money you are getting damn near halfway to G16B territory, why bother with a carby.

[bulladean_]

Not sure one the kit. I can't find the it on the sit.
I just bought a new 1.3 so im just gonna run it.

[sideways]

I don't see why you need the screaming eagle version. Buy a second hand version of the basic carb for $100 and make up an adapter.

[BlueSuzy]

Have heard only good things from a vitara carb

Next option would be single point injection off a swift or other makes 1.3cars with their wiring

Next would be full efi g16b

[bulladean_]

But isn't the vitara like the sierra one ? Full of hoses and sensors with die.
I want a nice simply Carb which won't die to bad on hills

[JrZook]

Automotive carb technology progression virtually stopped in the mid to late 80's due to the introduction of EFI. Motorcycle carb tech however continued right through to only a few years ago.
Those mikuni/kehien CV carbs used on the harley are pretty awesome yet simple carbs. They have been proven to work over in the states on teh zuks and as far as carbs go they would have to be one of the more ideal ones to use compared to other automotive style carbs.

[bulladean_]

Purchasing the my side kit and wait for a cheap hd carb sounds like the way I want to go

[shep]

Sierra carbys work great when all the extra bits are removed. All ya need is a vac line to the dizzy, the charcoal canister vent thing plugged in and the secondary vac line stuff working. Toss all the choke stuff including the actual choke butterfly and shaft. Toss all the stuff from the front of the carby. Make sure it is clean and there is a filter between the fuel pump and carby.

Mine would sit on 130kph on the flat even when loaded. When it was cold it just needed a couple of pumps of the throttle and it fired up first time every time.

[bulladean_]

I might give that ago. Thanks shep

[sideways]

JrZook wrote:

Automotive carb technology progression virtually stopped in the mid to late 80's due to the introduction of EFI. Motorcycle carb tech however continued right through to only a few years ago.
Those mikuni/kehien CV carbs used on the harley are pretty awesome yet simple carbs. They have been proven to work over in the states on teh zuks and as far as carbs go they would have to be one of the more ideal ones to use compared to other automotive style carbs.

It's probably worth mentioning that the Harley CV carbs date from the '80s, but that means there's plenty around! .

I was looking into them a few months ago. On eBay you can get rubber mounting spigots that have the right bolt pattern to bolt onto a 1l.

[Santos]

shep wrote:

Sierra carbys work great when all the extra bits are removed. All ya need is a vac line to the dizzy, the charcoal canister vent thing plugged in and the secondary vac line stuff working. Toss all the choke stuff including the actual choke butterfly and shaft. Toss all the stuff from the front of the carby. Make sure it is clean and there is a filter between the fuel pump and carby.

Mine would sit on 130kph on the flat even when loaded. When it was cold it just needed a couple of pumps of the throttle and it fired up first time every time.

This may be true in NT but for most of us a choke whether manual or original is a good idea. Have run several winters without one... and really need to put it back in.

So far i have been sucessful with richer jets (only been a month early days) 102.5 primary/ 115 secondary, Other modas are flat/ flush screws for butterflies, modified venturi arms and modded stock intake.

[Red89]

Santos wrote:

shep wrote:

Sierra carbys work great when all the extra bits are removed. All ya need is a vac line to the dizzy, the charcoal canister vent thing plugged in and the secondary vac line stuff working. Toss all the choke stuff including the actual choke butterfly and shaft. Toss all the stuff from the front of the carby. Make sure it is clean and there is a filter between the fuel pump and carby.

Mine would sit on 130kph on the flat even when loaded. When it was cold it just needed a couple of pumps of the throttle and it fired up first time every time.

This may be true in NT but for most of us a choke whether manual or original is a good idea. Have run several winters without one... and really need to put it back in.

So far i have been sucessful with richer jets (only been a month early days) 102.5 primary/ 115 secondary, Other modas are flat/ flush screws for butterflies, modified venturi arms and modded stock intake.

I ditched all the non essential bits off my carb several years ago now and havent had any dramas with it ever since. Admittedly I dont DD mine but I can leave it in the shed for 4-5 months at a time, walk straight in there, start it up with out even priming it and it will happily run, you just have to keep the revs up around 1200 or so for around a minute and then the idle settles down and youre away. Some of the places we camp at get bloody cold too, no snow but plentyy of ice in the mornings so its just a matter of letting it idle for a minute or more longer then normal.

[bulladean_]

I won't have a problem with it being cold. It rarely gets below 20

[toopy]

bulladean_ wrote:

Purchasing the my side kit and wait for a cheap hd carb sounds like the way I want to go

I run the myside2 setup and it seriously kicks ass, my stock carb was old and had needed a full rebuild. After searching multiple forums it seemed the easy way to bring my SJ80 back to life.

And did it bring it back to life, throttle response is near instantaneous, massive amounts of power have either been recovered or added (stock carb must have had it when I bought it).
100km is no problem on the highway with the aircon on, overtaking is a breeze. Had to to 150ish before chickening out, its not a race car.
Works great on all the angles I've ever put it on and haven't had any spluttering probs with it.
Install was a breeze, just had to remove one plug for the aircon temp sensor out of the myside 2 intake manifold.
I bought the premodded carb from Zuksoffroad with the myside2, a little excy yes but at least its brand new, bolted it straight in didn't change any jets and its fantastic, just advanced the timing to 20BDTC ish. (I did tell him which engine it was going on though)

Zuks has some g16b EFi kits atm as well

[Marko_SJ]

JrZook wrote:

Automotive carb technology progression virtually stopped in the mid to late 80's due to the introduction of EFI. Motorcycle carb tech however continued right through to only a few years ago.
Those mikuni/kehien CV carbs used on the harley are pretty awesome yet simple carbs. They have been proven to work over in the states on teh zuks and as far as carbs go they would have to be one of the more ideal ones to use compared to other automotive style carbs.

shep wrote:

Sierra carbys work great when all the extra bits are removed. All ya need is a vac line to the dizzy, the charcoal canister vent thing plugged in and the secondary vac line stuff working. Toss all the choke stuff including the actual choke butterfly and shaft. Toss all the stuff from the front of the carby. Make sure it is clean and there is a filter between the fuel pump and carby.

Mine would sit on 130kph on the flat even when loaded. When it was cold it just needed a couple of pumps of the throttle and it fired up first time every time.

Two very different forms of good advice.

Santos wrote:

This may be true in NT but for most of us a choke whether manual or original is a good idea. Have run several winters without one... and really need to put it back in.

So far i have been sucessful with richer jets (only been a month early days) 102.5 primary/ 115 secondary, Other modas are flat/ flush screws for butterflies, modified venturi arms and modded stock intake.

Next service because I'll take it off the road and attend to some other small issues, I'll shep my carby, there's a linkage that binds up holding the throttle open a crack. Not a huge deal but sick of having to tap the pedal to get the revs down correct.

I remember your thread on that Santos, they are Swift jets are they not?

Edit: Re read your thread, which is here for anyone else who is interested:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39300&hilit=sierra+carb+mods

Good tech, I may as well try some jets too.