What are Webers?

[Blue Supra]

Ive been reading about engines alot lately looking at what would be best to swap into my car. One thing that keeps popping up is Webers. WTF are they? heaps of engines for sale have something like "twin 45mm Webers" etc. what are they and what do they do? are they of any great benefit? should i buy an engine that already has them or are the easy to fit? Any help would be super guys

[kko]

Webbers are a kind of carberetor, the mm is the size of the carb . big carbs means alot of air,
another brand of carbs are rodchesters, used on the old vettes

[jcp123]

They're a brand of carburetors, super-tunable, awesome looking, and from what I hear, awesome performing. I'd love to slap a set of Webers on my engine. I tried to find a site that had a very good write-up on Webers, but so far no luck. I'll keep lookin though.

[PerfAdv]

rorty lil carbs

[Blue Supra]

So def worth puttin on? are they difficult to fit or is it just a stright swap with the existing carb?

[johnnynumfiv]

There are usually kits you use to put them on, since the face of the carb is going to be different from the one you have on there now, so your going to need a different intake manifold. Not sure if you need to mess with the timing once you put them on though.

[charged]

Originally Posted by Blue Supra

So def worth puttin on? are they difficult to fit or is it just a stright swap with the existing carb?

You could go sidedraft webers about 44mm,probably need a new manifold,car will go a lot harder,a little tricky to tune as you tune each individual throat,but stay in tune fairly well.Also when you open the bonnet they look the business.

[PerfAdv]

Originally Posted by Blue Supra

So def worth puttin on? are they difficult to fit or is it just a stright swap with the existing carb?

These are highly polished but here's are a couple of Weber sidedrafts. Looks alone would be reason enough but that would be ricey, they go too.

EDIT: These are infact SU carbs.

[henk4]

Wow, this question shows that I am getting old. Doulbe or triple Webers were the wet dream of all of us as the ultimate carb, during times when the Brits produced the SU and the germans had the Solex as their best ones. Webers were the way to go if you really wanted to increase performance. Dell'Orto's were also highly appreciated.

It is an Italian company, still existing today being involved in injection systems, but of course keeping up a department for supplying old parts. It is now part of the Fiat group (which may disqualify it in the eyes of some of you).

[TDI15]

Originally Posted by PerfAdv

These are highly polished but here's are a couple of Weber sidedrafts. Looks alone would be reason enough but that would be ricey, they go too.

Those are SU's which Brits cars used to use them.

Below a FIAT 2000cc engine with side draft webers, which i used to have on an 82 131

[henk4]

and here is an example of six vertical draft doubles

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/frame...=11&carnum=128

[PerfAdv]

Originally Posted by TDI15

Those are SU's which Brits cars used to use them.

Below a FIAT 2000cc engine with side draft webers, which i used to have on an 82 131

Oops You are correct, I took that pic off of a site with a bugeye sprite, thinking that they were infact Webers. Reread the page and he's talking about his buddy's car with the Weber. http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jbcarey/NewJCarey/ah.html

The last time I saw a Weber carb was in 1984, highschool. A friend's older brother had a Datsun 180B with the sidedrafts, either two or three doubles. Wow, eye-candy and I still remember the sound.

I've only had Fuel Injected cars

[jcp123]

i want one of these suckers for mine:

[fpv_gtho]

the ones for the V8's like in that last post, they look alot like the 8 throttle body kit's ive seen advertised by Herrod

[McReis]

Originally Posted by PerfAdv

These are highly polished but here's are a couple of Weber sidedrafts. Looks alone would be reason enough but that would be ricey, they go too.

EDIT: These are infact SU carbs.

That doesn't make any sense... Weber carbs are NOT polished. This guy has decided to polish them, but usually they are as simple as a carb like taht can be...