yeah i though they would collapse too. sure most pipe bending places could do you 4 pipes that go from 88mm centres at one end and t-body centres at the other, you just need the bit from the 16v manifold where it changes from a tube to a flatter oval shape near the head
(showing my lack of knowledge here) is it possible to weld the manifold (alluminum alloy?) to (stainless?)steel pipes? how else would you go about connecting it all together?
use ali pipes, or use small lengths of rubber hose as connectors like alfa romeo do and most of the bike engines
this site may be of interest to you... http://www.16vmini.co.uk/ ok so its not a golf engine, but the guy is going through teh same process as you.
Hmm, looks like he mated the GSX-R bodies to a dual weber manifold with only minor mods, looks like that could be the way forward as they obviously already make these for the golf 16v's ... Joe
the only difference might be the distance between the two carbs bodies (i.e. the distance between ports 2 and 3).
Don't get one of those w*nk mangoletsi swan neck manifolds though Just found this on Vortex - 16v on bike TBs http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=958976&page=1 Edited by: G_V_K
nothing really, just depends what you can get, webers would be easier as you can get a manifold already
block all the fuel inlets/jets and progressions holes, mount injectors in the manifold, fit throttle pot and there you are
I disagree - 40's are normally fitted to 1.6's. I'd go with 45's. Dont forget carbs are usually fitted with chokes, 45's are often with 36 or 38 chokes so the flowpath is actually much smaller than a real throttle body which has no chokes - 45 TB = 45mm hole. Cheers Rob Edited by: RobT
hee hee Rob, read the thread people normally overshoot on throttle body size as they are used to sizing carbs, but without a fuel signal to worry about and no chokes, bodies can be much smaller
Im going to meet up with wayne from chipwizards tmr at dubsport to give him couple of citroen ecu-s so he can modify it for me and to get all other info on what i will need to get em going, watch this thread for all info.