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Starter Motor
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 1
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Hey
I have a 1980 MK2 Escort with the 1.6 kent motor, I would like to keep the original motor and do a few upgrades. I havent even look at which carbie is fitted stock mabye someone can tell me ?. But I do have a cortina gt manifold with the weber DFM carb and I wanted to confirm this would fit the esky as I believe they both had 1600 kent engines and also would it have a significant enough performance increase to warrant changing over from stock. Thanks for any help |
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Rally Nut
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 297
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your car will already have a dual throat weber carbie on it (complete with pollution gear)
the GT manifold & DFM carbie will fit, performance gain is very hard to judge as you will also be removing the polution gear which will change the performance but it is not a good thing if you get caught.... |
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Regular Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Peakhurst
Posts: 82
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Changing a carbie just by itself shouldn't give you any increased performance unless there is a problem with the original carb. To get some gain you need to change the engine's ability to burn more air/fuel. Extractors, head mods or hotter cams are traditional ways to increase the flow in the combustion chamber and combined with a bigger carb should give performance gains.
Pete 70V6 |
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