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Seeger, Philip F PWR said: > I just bought a 70 T3 that I am restoring from the ground up. It has > not run for at least 5 years, possibly more. With all the bad press > about FI problems, I am thinking of converting to carburetion. Any > ideas or recommendations of what set up to use. I AM building the > engine with 94.5 pistons and probably heads with 041 valves. I am not > sure 041 heads are the best combination. In general, the FI works better than carbs, but there is a learning curve for carb people that seems overwhelming to many of them. This list is a cure for that problem, however, since you can get any FI help you might want here. OTOH, I think there is a consensus that an engine this big will not work (or would take a LOT of work to get to work) with the stock FI. In addition, I think you're asking for big trouble by going to pistons this big in a type 3. I believe Berg recommends a max of 88s in type 3s, but I don't know what his criteria are. Personally, I suspect that the type 3 case will have a hard time accomodating pistons this big and you'd be much better off either making your goals more approachable or going with a type 4 case and doing the whole type 4 conversion route. You should understand that NONE of these approaches are easy and they all require a lot of time, money and experience to implement successfully. -- ******************* Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisc USA ******************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~