First off, I am forced to be cheap, my wife. I have been searching around on the net and found a few cheap options for weber like carbs. I found some that can be ordered directly from China for about 100$, shipping is about the same but it is still half the price of a new weber. Has anyone had any expierence with these? It appears that redline weber carbs are made in China but it also appears no one wants them. Anyone had any expierece with any of these?

 

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price has been forgotten."
Confucius, maybe.

 

That's a great quote.

Personally I would avoid a knockoff carb because theres just too much that could be wrong with it, but that's just me. Keep an eye on the classifieds/ebay I'm sure you'll find something used that's better

 

i haven't heard much about the chinese ones, but they are probably better than the spanish webers...

 

What's wrong with the Spanish Webers? I have a Made in Spain IDA.

 

spanish IDA's the squirter is push-in and held/secured by a rubber o-ring and its has 3 progression holes. Italian has a screw-in. IMHO, either one is good except I've seen the o-ring go bad, leaks gas.

 

Bleeblotz do you have any links to the carbs you are talking about? I'd like to have a look.

Thanks

 

http://www.miparts.com/detail/carbur...1#.UcXCG2S9Kc0

http://hh-autoparts.en.alibaba.com/p...time&edm_ver=e

http://sfimanager.en.made-in-china.c...arburetor.html

There are many more.


I contacted the companies, all have weber 48's available. The shipping is what got me, it's about 100$. If one wanted too, I'm sure money could be made.

Thanks

 

these are IDF not IDA

 

Kinda like getting a carb from Harbor Freight.... brrrrrrrrr....

 

I know they are idf but I can't find much difference, do you know any? Do they have different bolt patterns?

 

i can't find it now, of course, but i saw some pics, and the main venturies aren't concentric with the throttle plates and stuff

i did find this though, its good good read Weber Carbs Technical

especially this part Weber Carbs Technical

 

I believe so. I think the bolt patterns are mirror images of each other. i'm pretty sure I've seen someone around here recently running one on an IDA manifold with some kind of adapter though. I just can't remember if the adapter was bought or custom fabricated.

 

I had nothing better to do so I tried finding the thread I saw recently saw (within the last 2 weeks or so) with the IDF on the IDA manifold. so far, no luck.

however, I did come across this one that said the difference in bolt pattern is just where the barrel centers are. so maybe I was mixing up the mirror image thing with something else. anyway, here's this thread for now: https://www.rx7club.com/1st-generati...cross-1011496/

 

ATMOSPORTS

^^^These guys make an adapter

Atkins used to sell and actual weber idf manifold for a 12a, but it looks like they quit selling them

 

my idf is on a Rotary Engineering manifold...also no longer being made

 

How do you like the carb? Weber? From my research there really isn't much difference between a idf and a ida, do you know of any? Sad to say but financially I haven't been able to purchase a carb yet. I long for the younger years of no responsibilities. The wife just doesn't see the family value in a new carb.

 

I will be putting the carb on (finally) on the GLC with a RE header that is soon to arrive in the mail...I will post up video of how it runs