The car is invisible, and it's free :)

Should cost next-to-nothing for a new one from ebay, if you don't have any luck.

Not a bling fan. Run the stocker & spend the money on more fasts!

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Checked my maths and I used 62hp (A10), either way the logic is still the same & you are far better off with a completely standard engine that already makes more power and has better torque characteristics.

As for $1000, I can't see your average punter getting all of those parts plus the engine work donefor anywhere near that. II'm not saying it can't be done I'm just saying that there's a grand in machining etc and other parts that need to be replaced while its apart.

Absolutely, definitely, your best bang-for-buck is keeping an eye out for a larger A-series engine. Info varies depending on which site you get it from, but for example changing from an A12 to an A15 is around a 30% power increase! You will never get that from an A12 without 'investing' a massive sum of money.

Once you have the bigger engine, you can then look at options like carbs, turbos, whatever you like - and any gains you get there will also be larger than gains you would have gotten by modifying the A12.

Next step in my opinion is to look at an L-series conversion - more complicated than an A-series swap of course, but the results are a whole new level. A12 to L16 is a 55% power increase and L20B is 61%... again all of these figures are before modifications... so you have a nice, happy, unstressed engine that is great to drive and pretty good on fuel compared to something with a big cam and twin carbs.

Sold (townie).

Hi guys

Great start to an EFI conversion. These would look awesome with trumpets, individual filters, or one of the factory SU air cleaner boxes!

Approximate measurements are:

51mm at the intake / filter end
46mm butterfly
42mm at the intake runner / port end
320mm end-to-end

$160 pickup
$180 posted (Aust-wide)

Very reasonable price, this is as cheap as you can get them overseas AND they will be posted from inside Aust practically same day. Win-win! Also for that money, I have no idea why anyone would spend $1k on a weber setup!!

Also if you are tight on cash I can take a deposit and will hold them for you for a few days (until payday but not until the end of time itself).

I don't agree, but I'm not going to sit here and have a keyboard argument.

Sleep time :)

I think that's just what people with L16s tell themselves. Whether you turbo it or not, you'd be a goose not to go the extra 400cc.

In fact even moreso it's important to look at the extra 400cc as I assume this is being done on a budget = standard motor = want to minimise boost pressure.

An L16 should (very loosely) need 10psi to do what an L20B can do at 5psi.

I'll just chime in here... for all my time involved in cars, they've always been called sandwich plates. Doesn't matter where it is, if it's a plate and it's sandwiched then it's a sandwich plate.