Dirt cheap carb swap

[ricko1966]

I did a weber swap on my festy years ago with ho hum results, Swapped to escort was much happier,but not as happy as I wanted to be and as I was messing sround in the shop some stuff caught my eye. Namely the carb mounting flange for a 1984 vw rabbit with a solex 1bbl A 34pict 3 carb which was the stock carb on a dual port bug,and the low buck replacement when your rabbit carb was worn out.The way I see it the rabbit flange bolted to a piece of 3/8th aluminum plate with a 34 pict 3 and an air cleaner should be about 100.00 bucks. I was going to do it to mine but all my junk is FI, now yea! I did hold all the pieces up even the linkage will be a cake walk. stock festy cable stock bug linkage and cable clamp, You will have to make a bracket to hold the cable to the valve cover. The bug carb has electric choke and idle cutoff the air cleaner has provisions for valve cover vent. It is what I was going to do to mine, adapter fab would be drill 4 holes in the plate festy pattern drill and tap two holes 8mm 1.25 for the rabbit mount punch 1 hole right between them with a hole saw. Done. Bug parts air cleaners carb kits jets etc are cheap and plentiful.

[harpon]

I'm surprised- My first two VW rabbits were a 76 and then a 78. Somewhere between the two, 78 I thought, the carb had been replaced with EFI. I didn't think an 84 Golf had a carb. I did favor the 76 which ran very well, while I had electric fuel pump issues with the 78 and the pump which was placed under the floor externally behind the drivers door.

[ricko1966]

yep rabbit/ golf was kinda goofy 75/76 were 2bbl zenith but 76 could also be CIS . 77/78 all were CIS 79-85 1.5 and 1.7 were 1bbl solex carb 1.8 was cis I think there were also some 1.6 s that were carb too in the early 80's and some of the 1.7's may have been CIS I do not remember I have never seen an 85 with a Carb. But they supposedly exist.