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Hello World
are the new forum, I live in Italy (Milan) sorry but not speak good English
I need help, having to change the engine of my 914 / 4 2000cc injection carburettor
any advice you will be 'important for me
thanks

Welcome to STF! You're English is already better than our Italian.

Can you tell us more about what you would like to know? Will you rebuild the engine you have or get a new one? Are you interested in a larger, more powerful engine or want to stay stock? Will you do the work yourself or send it to someone else?

The more you can tell us, the more we can help.

doc

hello Doc
no, I intend to use the engine as' removing injection and put the carburetors, without having to open.
I would like to know if the original distributor is good or should I replace it
thanks

Welcome to the madness... !!!!!!!!!

The folks here are great.

At this juncture.
I suggest you may want to keep your STOCK distributor for your carb swap. Just go through it and make sure it is in good working order.
There are several better dizzy alternatives.
Yet the stock "Dizzy" (Dizzy = distributor) works just fine with either points or a pertronix upgrade.

(pertronix = after market "drop in" electronic points alternative)
Google "pertronix"

The advantage of the stock dizzy over most of the drop in alternatives. Is that the stock dizzy advance curve is just about right for either a stock engine or a mildly modified engine.
And it's a dam bit better than a stock curved Bosch 009 that the type 1 folks have great success with.
The stock 009 works great in everything EXCEPT the a type IV.

NOTE: A 009 dizzy can be re-curved to work right on a type IV engine. This supposes you have a good 009. Most of the old ones need rebuilding. And the news ones seem to be of dubious quality.

What carbys are you going to use and what manifolds are you thinking of using?

Cheers,
Twystd1

vwfester wrote:Hello World
are the new forum, I live in Italy (Milan) sorry but not speak good English
I need help, having to change the engine of my 914 / 4 2000cc injection carburettor
any advice you will be 'important for me
thanks

Again, welcome to the forum!
(I'm a little late, but hey, I work nights )

I assure you that your English is FAR better than some of the locals around here

If you still have the complete stock FI setup, just be aware that between here and the STF FI forum you will have a very good chance of getting her running better than new, and no carbs will run better than a properly tuned FI setup, even a 100% stock one (which does have it's limitations, but it works great on a stock engine)

If you have already bought the carbs//made your mind up, let us know what you are up to and we would all be happy to help.

The stock DJet FI distributor is NOT ideal for carb use, but it will do and can be made to work well with some effort... the curve is totally wrong and not as easily changed... but It is not the first thing you need to worry about by any means. (No need to replace unless it's actually bad or such)

The dual vac can setup off a later bug or T4 works very well, esp when recurved, especially if the carbs have ported vacuum for advance.

A single vac Vanagon setup (hall effect) works VERY nicely, especially when recurved. (I believe those were called T3 busses in Europe?) It is essentially the same as a late Mk1 Golf electronic ignition, only the distributor drops in a T1 or T4.

Recurving most stock VW distributors is a ~5-30 minute job, but you will need an adjustable "advance" style timing light to set it up/test.

thanks and 'a pleasure to know you
the carburetors that I must mount are dell'Orto doppiocorpo 40, dedicated collectors bought from CSP.
My problem was able to change its distributor and that 'healthy, if you can give me information saddles curves and other details
thank you very much at all