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jonon9

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• Jun 6, 2012

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Evening to all you V8 nuts I thought I ask a question today as I must have left my brain somewhere else this week.

I have a 3.5 efi v8 that I'm gonna do a complete rebuild and since I wont be using it on the road I would like to change out the efi to carbs mostly for the simplicity of it really. I was gonna try find a pair of strombergs carbs secondhand but that's proving tough to find. does anyone know where I could source theses parts.

If I find what I'm looking for I more than likely put the efi and ecu up for sale as it might bring in a few bucks.

Thanks in advance
Jonathan

 

martin1512

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• Jun 6, 2012

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jonon9 said:

Evening to all you V8 nuts I thought I ask a question today as I must have left my brain somewhere else this week.

I have a 3.5 efi v8 that I'm gonna do a complete rebuild and since I wont be using it on the road I would like to change out the efi to carbs mostly for the simplicity of it really. I was gonna try find a pair of strombergs carbs secondhand but that's proving tough to find. does anyone know where I could source theses parts.

If I find what I'm looking for I more than likely put the efi and ecu up for sale as it might bring in a few bucks.

Thanks in advance
Jonathan

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I have a 3.9 running on carbs. I got the manifold from an SD1 and the SU carbs from a Range Rover. Both were EBAY finds. The reason I went for carbs is because I got hold of an LPG kit off of an old Range Rover 3.5 carb. There are also a few Land Rover shows and autojumbles going on around this time of year, and they can be a good source of parts, but they do tend to be a bit more expensive at some of these places.

 

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fett

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• Jun 7, 2012

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i have a pair of strombergs- PM me with an offer

 

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eightinavee

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• Jun 7, 2012

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If you are just using it off road,either racing or steep banks/hills etc you are better off with EFI. It is unaffected by bumps or extreme angles of lean - carbs are....

 

fett

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• Jun 7, 2012

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strombergs and su are good offroad, thats why they fitted them. its the holly etc that can struggle

 

Ianski

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• Jun 8, 2012

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su,s are far better than stroms, basic and good off road

 

fett

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• Jun 8, 2012

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two schools of thought on it really, one that the su's give a little more power but do go out of tune fast- and I can testify to that as mine do.

two, strombergs do need the diaphram replacing every 2 years but its only 99p from padwanks and they hold there tune for a lot longer.

it can ber hard to get the right su carbs too as a lot fitted to rover v8 powered saloon cars wont work off road