What are Webers?

[Blue Supra]

well i got them for $400, these are pretty much brand new so they dont need to be kitted and they fit straight on so theres no muckin around, now i just need to get a proper manifold for them.

[cga]

Here is where you can get the Weber Carbs at. Don't be scared of these beauties. If you use real good linkage they will saty in tune. I had them on my 2002 and I installed them on a 320i. I used the 40 DCOE better for the street. However the 45 DCOE work good also. Redline Carb has all the stuff you need.

[AMCoelacanth]

I was interested in putting triple webers on my I6 with a homebuilt intake awhile back so I did a lot of research on Webers so if you'd like some links to good Weber sites, here ya go.

http://www.triumphspitfire.com/weber.html
http://members.aol.com/dvandrews/webers.htm
http://www.racetep.com/weber.html
http://www.inglese.com/tech.htm
http://www.saoca.org/sforum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=2496
http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Canyon/1017/jetcarb.html
http://zacksz.homestead.com/webersites.html
http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Canyon...webertune.html

These are straight out of my bookmarks, I haven't been to any of these sites in months so I don't remember what's what, but they all were good enough to make it to my bookmarks so they shuould all have some valuble info. Another thing that was very helpful was a trip to the library, I found a Chilton style manual that included Weber carbs and how to select jets, etc in more detail then you're likely to find on the internet. Since I'm and AMC guy, here's a like to a Old Ramber 6 with triple Webers...tasty.
http://hometown.aol.com/nosigma/myhomepage/index.html

[Matra et Alpine]

Tell us more.
What's the current state of it and when do you hope to get it finished ?

[AMCoelacanth]

If you're asking for more info on the Weber setup I mentioned above, here goes. A triple weber intake for my car at least, was something like $350 plus there were possible clearance issues so I decided I would try to make my own intake. The simplest way to do for most people would be to make a flange that matches your intake ports and a flange that matches a weber carb and then weld short pieces of pipe to each flange, bam you have an intake. Oddly enough, even though I've never welded, my friends and I have tried our hands at casting in aluminum. A benefit to a cast intake is that the runners could mate to the round port of the Webers and smoothly transition to the square intake port on my head. I took a piece of dense foam and carved out one part of the three piece intake, two runners on each piece, one for each barrel of a two barrelled weber. At this time I'll point out for those of you not completely familiar with the way a Weber is used for the best performance is to have one throat of each carb go to one cylinder on your car, it's called an individual runner intake. More intake science can be found here:
http://www.newcovenant.com/speedcraf...ors/intake.htm
http://victorylibrary.com/mopar/intake-tech-c.htm#ir
http://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/~jchick/Y5/t...c_html/pt7.htm
In general, if I remember correctly, the shorter runners that you get from an IR intake gives you quicker response. Long story shory, I made one mold but never cast it because my attention was diverted to getting my engine back in and my car running with the Holley 2BBL and the intake that I already had and knew worked. I'll probably sell my car next spring so I probably won't be getting into Webers for a while even though I'd love to.

FYI about Webers is that they are difficult, and it's probably good I didn't install them because it'd be another can of worms, everything I've ever done with cars has been twice as hard as I plan, and that's after I factor in that it'll be twice as hard(clearance issues, stuck bolts, lost brackets). Anyway, why are Webers hard? Many will say tuning, I haven't tuned a Weber and it sounds difficult and time consuming, but I know that when I tuned my Holley it was a lot of fun, so that's not the problem. What's gonna suck is doing boring things like getting it all to fit, making a linkage that allows each carb to be tuned individually, and other random things along those lines that'll piss you off.

The negativity at the end is probably coupled with me being bitter about not have Webers for my own car, so bottom line is they're expensive and difficult but damned cool.

[Matra et Alpine]

Having gone to your first sie, the Q was on the whole car, but interesting ntoes on the Weber setup you created.