The Weber (EMPI copy) progressive carb comes with a rectangular chrome air filter unit as standard. When I bought my van, this was shot (you could see through the holes) so I bought a replacement from VWH. This has already (after a couple of hundred miles) got some small holes starting in the element, so my assumption is that the filter elements are pants. You can only buy the complete filter / element package, but I don't really want to bother with this element again if it's not going to last. Are there any better quality filters / filter elements that will fit this casing and last a sensible amount of time?
ditch the whole set up and save up for some twins my deli set up cost £300 but a friend has done webber ICH's for less than £200
Owen, there are alternatives, give me a few minutes and I'll try and dig out where mine came from, I remember it being Ripspeed (before they were bought out and commercialised) may even have been a Jamex.
Update: Ramiar do one in varying heights (depends on your clearance, not usually an issue in a bay but a big problem in my bug. K&N do one that looks like the Empi one but is better. Pipercross do one as well. ITG also have one listed. I remember paying about £30 for mine but that was a while ago.
What is it with people constantly insisting everyone upgrade to dual webers or ich/idf's?! Some people can't afford them or just don't want to have duals for varying reasons. Progressives work fine if you set them up right.
Didn't you buy a set of twins Col? I say each to their own on the carb debate, however I've got a set of webber 34ict's. it was the best £175 I've ever spent on my bus.
No, I bought what I thought was a weber progressive 32 36. Turns out it is an EMPI copy. And perhaps for what it cost me I could have got something better! Maybe I'll sell it on at some point and buy bigger but before that I need to sort out my clutch issue, no point having a faster engine if the clutch can't transfer the power.
A single carb, however well set up, won't be as good as twins. I have weber ICT's on my 1955 because I came across them for free and admitedly they could do with the jetting tweaking, BUT and it's a big BUT, my mates bog standard 1600 goes almost as well with twin Dell DRLA's. I know what I'm saving for.
I'm not doubting for one instant twins are better than a single, that is obvious. It's just the cost of a decent set of twins and added stuff you need all adds up and saving in this day and age is hard. I have a set of 40's I can use but will need manifolds and linkages and all the other bits which came to about £400. On a daily driver I decided 40's were a little to large and the fuel consumption would be ridiculous.
I can save up for twins, but now the timing is about right the progressive works OK and is almost new (PO put it on). I would rather get some miles under my belt than mess around any more, but it would be good to have some filtration.
because for the money spent on a progressive , air filters AND loss of MPG you could of had a set of twins if your getting 10 MPG more on a run it doesn't take long before they pay for them selves i don't think i could afford to drive may bay much if it still had a progressive on it
I apologise, that came across a bit sharp. It wasn't my intention. Surely 40's are going to give you worse mpg compared to 34's?! Wider manifold = more air and fuel. I couldn't tell you if my mpg has improved or not as my fuel gauge died just before fitting the carb. I can tell you I was having major issues balancing the twin solex's.
Put the standard air filter back with preheat and get back performance in colder weather. I made an aluminium and body filler box that fits over the carb. and took the solid hose off the oil bath cleaner and hooked the new box to the standard cleaner with some silver hose. So the carb gets thermostatically controlled heat from hot air off the cylinder heads instead of freezing out in the open.
agree with you on this mate. I put a single progressive on 6/7 years ago after my twin Solex one was leaking fuel. can't fault it for tootling about, I don't go more than 50/55, get about 25 mpg on run. It's a swings and roundabout situation.....
Not seen any cheap Dell 36s around and I want to get running now, so the progressive is staying for a while anyway. Once properly running, I'm going to monitor mpg and see what it does before deciding what to do next.
