VW polo/golf Carb query

But which small weber? And already runnign a pierburg on a tein choke 2 bolt manifold, are there similar webers out there?

I did get her running today:

Ahh, dude that's exactly what I needed to hear! I'll get the rest of the car together and hunt out a carb spares place.

Thanks for the reply!

wouldnt touch the pooburg. if it hasn't gone wrong, it soon will do. they are a very complex carb and run very well when new or freshly rebuilt. Sadly most are neither, so almost always run like a bag of poop.
weber dtml or dmtr would be my carb of choice

www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=250943

www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=126734

If it were me I would ditch the carbs completely and would have run it on the SPI setup it would have been fitted with on the golf. Its a fairly simple injection system, very reliable and good on fuel

Spi isn't an option. Car needs to be simple.

Those links make for some good reading! Think I need to get myself into club polo!

get on and run a carb then, i'm telling you
swapping to SPi is a piece of pi55, the first
engine swap i did was a mk2 coupe S to a
mk3 GT, twas easy, only wiring changes iirc
was a wire to feed the rev counter, a feed to
the pumps and changing the multiplugs to the
front indicators. or you can pi55 about with carbs
and never get it right.

Use carbs from a Honda CBR600F-X model year '99-'01, no earlier, and drill the main jet in each carb to 1.4mm. Use a simple top hat flange on each port and some wire reinforced industrial vac tubing. Cut the ball off the throttle cable but leave the crimped part on, this then pulls the throttle pulley once you've modified the Polo throttle bracket and fixed it to the side of the end carb.

This will give you both maximum power and yet maximum mpg, with no worries come the MoT. These ultra efficient carbs from Honda's finest range of sports vehicles only 11 years ago are not to be confused with car carbs, which had run out of development a quarter century ago. They are self-regulating, so they only supply the engine with the fuel it can burn.

I ran that engine on those carbs precisely like that, so i know this all by a great personal experience. Here are three pics of my car as it was in that state, followed by various other pics of other engines i've ran them with, and some indication of how.
A single downdraught carb into a 4-1 manifold is horribly flawed by design, causing cylinder snatch, you'll never get it as clean running as individual throttles. These are all i'll use, i've been using them for several years, so can't help with any other type of carburration. It's another option, anyway.




Carbs after i'd modified them with a vac out, not essential because it'll be fine without vac, and you can take it from the manifold runners or rubbers if you do run it..

Worked superbly on the 1.6 too, they required further modifying obviously
Good shot of the flanges on the 16v, but the ports were the wrong shape so i converted to a steel manifold.


Making a manifold for the 16v ports..


And on the current engine..


Only thing i'd suggest, if you're intent on keeping with one big inefficient carb, is to keep it small - the Polo inlet manifold is highly restrictive in it's bore size even for the 1.3 engines. So unless you want to pay a fortune for a manifold from a GK engine we didn't get in the UK then you're playing with blocked nostrils anyway. Although any donor car with 1.3-1.4 engine is gonna be at least 20 years old anyway, so you might as well use a Polo/Golf/Jetta Pierburg 2E.