<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Sound advice, Tony!</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, November 17, 2013 5:56 PM, Dennis Stiefel <dlstiefel@dekalbk12.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces@lists.vwtype3.org" href="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces@lists.vwtype3.org">type3-vwtype3.org-bounces@lists.vwtype3.org</a><br>[mailto:<a
ymailto="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces@lists.vwtype3.org" href="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces@lists.vwtype3.org">type3-vwtype3.org-bounces@lists.vwtype3.org</a>] On Behalf Of Terrie Ann<br>Schmearer<br>Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:41 AM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org@lists.vwtype3.org" href="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org@lists.vwtype3.org">type3-vwtype3.org@lists.vwtype3.org</a><br>Subject: [T3] FI to Carb conversion<br><br>Hello everyone,<br>The time has come. My '72 T3 1600 Fastback is going to be converted from FI<br>to carbs. Didn't think I'd ever do that. However, I haven't been able to<br>drive it for over a year and we've put around $6000 in repairs in it and<br>it's time. My (new) mechanic has been speaking to other classic VW mechanics<br>who have all said to convert. I gave him permission to do so. He said if I<br>could ask y'all for any information about converting it, that would help him<br>get it done faster. He has to
research how to do it. So! If any of you have<br>experience, know what parts are needed, know where to get them. Any<br>information whether it seems insignificant or very important will be<br>appreciated.<br>Thank you,<br>Terrie Ann Schmearer<br>1972 VW Type III Fastback - Her name is Joy<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>I think part of the issue for Terrie is she has no one to service the FI on<br>her Fastback where she lives think. That being said I have been on both<br>sides of this. When my dad first gave me my fastback in 82 it had FI with<br>an engine with 160K miles on it. When I had the engine rebuilt in my senior<br>year I went with a Holley/Weber progressive two barrel carburetor and 1641<br>displacement. I thought for years this set up had a lot more power than the<br>stock set up. But now after the big restoration and going back with a stock<br>FI set up I realized it only had a little. Probably because I went from
an<br>old engine to a fresh one. So far I'm liking the old FI. After that system<br>setting up for over 30 years on another car I can't believe the only<br>components I've had to replace so far was the distributor, injectors, and<br>soon the TVS. I had a 69 automatic fastback back in the 90s (wish I still<br>had it). The FI was already gone when I got it and had duel carbs on it<br>someone had put on it. God love yall who can work with duel carbs because I<br>never could figure how to adjust them and just gave up and slapped my<br>progressive Webber on it. Hopefully my FI on Clementine will continue to<br>work good if not my next choice would be mega squirt FI system because I<br>have worked on modern cars for too long now and when I do work on carbs it<br>drives me nuts. I'm dreading working on the Solex on my son's 71 stander<br>beetle when we start getting in the engine on that. <br><br>Dennis Stiefel<br>72 Fastback FI
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