Lately I have been seeing a lot of twin sidedraught setups on l-series and a-series motors but i only see webers and dellortos but was thinking of using sidedraught solexes such as what cheater_5 is using on his a15 would you be able to use a weber/dellorto manifold or do you have to use a specific solex manifold?

cheers jake

Mikuni/Solex's PHH have the same bolt patern as Weber DCOE, Dellorto DHLA..

but not the same as weber or dellorto?

Yes the same as dellorto and weber, they are a good street carb as you can run vacuum advance so you can run an unmodified distributor.

thanks for that whitesedan your earlier comment on them being half decent compared to webers on the street fuel economy wise got me thinking about this cheers mate

by the way how do they use less fuel then a weber? and how do they vary performance wise from a weber i know that webers would be better in the performance departmetn but by how much over solexs?

the Mikuni/Solex's tuned to your car would use the same fuel as Dellorto's, Webers tuned to your car too,
the use of the Right foot will equate to the fuel used,
if your after economy, might be best to stay away from the Twins..

Not really, well setup twins don't use heaps of fuel unless you've cammed the motor and then modded the dizzy.

You dont have to run twins with black smoke bellowing out the exhaust like most knobs do.

The solexes utilising the vacuum can run lower base timing and can run leaner idle mixtures therefore getting better emissions.

The solexes came stock on some celicas and they dont gulp fuel because the engine, ignition and carbs all work in harmony as the factory intended.

A stock SSS Lseries can run twin solexes very very well, the same would be for a GX A12 or anything else that runs twin SU's.

If your getting into these carbs I suggest getting some books and doing some reading.

well i dont plan on running a very stock motor my plan for my street 1200 that will one day get built! is for an l18 full balance ,stage 3 cam, very light flywheel, lighter valve train, higher compression, twin carbs of some description su's will not do and performance ignition its going to rev like an a series but have the torque of an l18

there is a great difference between solex's and mukinis as mukini bought the design off solex and modifyed them totally. They became a cross between a dcoe weber and a solex.
Apparently meant to be the set and forget sidedraft, have also been told that their flow rates arent as good as webers but that could be total #### made up to keep people to webers.
One prob with mukini's is trying to get parts for them in places.
They cant be bad though as many race a series ran them in japan and they were on race cars in all different places in the world in the 80/90's.
Most of the time you have to go to the USA to get anything, or japan which really sucks. can make tuning a slut.
Best bet in my opinion would to just stick with a good set of webers as the parts are everywhere.