1989 Skoda 120L5 - 136 Engine&Bike carbs - 2023 Winter Jobs

Thanks for the comments.

I am really liking the photoshop work. I had also been thinking about adding more back to add to the theme.

hmm... food for thought! I definately like the black around the rear light cluster.

Lewis

Well it has only been like 7 months since I updated this, and yes..... not much has happened.

I have however recently been making up the inlet manifold to run the bike carbs I got of ColonelK.

I have some picks to post up shortly, however SWMBO was kindly cleaning up the kitchen the other (after I was cleaning and re-building the carbs) and managed to drop the carbs shearing a moulding off one of the float bowls DAMN!!!!!

I think that they can be tig welded back together, or some chemical metal, however, does anyone have a spare float bowl from a set of Mikuni carbs off of a YZF750??

Lewis

Well blimey. Over a year and I have done nothing of note on the Estelle.

Life, children, DIY, gardening and total lack of spare cash to spare on the car. I feel really really bad for the poor little thing.

I have tried to keep it dry under gazebos and stuff, and she has faired the year of slack well. She is a really really solid shell and all still seams good, although I have not inspected the inner front wings.

I have, however, got back on the case in the last week.

As mentioned in my last post I had started to make the intake for the bike carbs that I procured from Colonel K.

Here is the mock up with the intake flanges, the carbs and some toilet rolls cut up.



I started to weld up the intake runners and made the first flange up



Then my darling swimbo dropped the carbs and snapped a lug off the float bowl.



That is when I got a bit down with the whole thing and left it.

Recently I purchase a premade intake manifold and a set of carbs that were already jetted to a skoda engine similar to my new one.

Only problem is that the carbs were slightly fire damaged.

Here they are





Smaller than my other set which should work a little better for my sized engine, plus as mentioned they were pre-setup.



Checking out the fire damage. These are the float bowl overflows. The previous owner of these carbs had overfueled them and they flooded. This fuel spilt onto the exhaust and caught fire.





Here is the intake manifold. It is a modified webber unit, I think.



So, I have now started to strip them down to fix the melted bits, clean it all up then pop it back together.

Great work mate! Cant wait to see the newly continued progress!!

Yeah, I have given them a good once over and see the orientation of the floats and overflows requires the carbs to sit up nice and high.

Funnily enough, my other carbs are very similar, but the floats sit at a lower angle and the overflow is much higher.

I guess there are a few different types of setup depending on the specific bike they were on.

Lewis

Time for another small update.

Firstly I have purchased some goodies. A 3 spoke Mountney steering wheel and boss as well as a full set of upgraded front suspension bushes. That should help keep the front end under control.

I have done a bit more work on the bike carbs and intake manifold.

I cleaned (well made an effort to clean) the carbs up



I also smoothed out the sliders that were slightly crispy from the fire



And started to re-assemble, lubricating and checking each part.







All working well. I then cleaned the intake manifold up.





I then added vac take offs to the two middle cylinders









I purchased some nice dinky hose barbs



As well as some new pipe to make the carb/manifold connectors











And finally for today, the start of some paint. White to keep with the theme of the car



I should be ready to fit the carbs and other engine bits in the next few days.

Thanks

Lewis

Looking good mate! Bike carbs look spot on hanging there I'll be interested to see the intake plenum as I think this is something I'd have to do on the Escort (if I ever get round to doing the carbs that is Then I can get a cold feed to them instead of just sucking in hot engine bay air. Glad to see you back on it

Just a quick update, with some pictures to follow.

I have now installed the water pump, thermostat housing and almost finished the cooling system.

I have bolted the carbs on, and hooked up the fuel lines, the choke cable etc, just need to sort out the throttle linkage.

I have also made a hot wire cutter (not a Hotwire cutter) and started to mess about carving some shapes in foam.

Yeah, the carbs were crispy for sure, but mostly in tact. They were re-constructed using bits from my broken set.

Need to get some pics up, but in theory it will now start, if fed some petrol and electricity. Tiny steps closer.