I'm using a solex staged 2 bbl, great little carb, all modular design, you can change and machine to your specs the boosters, the venturis, emulsion tubes, air bleeds, jets, idle circuit restriction and bleeds.... I'm loving it! better than holley adjust-a-s h i t

I don't know if you guys have those carbs up there... as usual they're licensed and produced by argelite s.a. (argentinian manufacturers of licensed holleys, webers, solex, etc)

I'm using a 36-36 mm staged 2 bbl on my supersix intake.

I'm beggining to prepare my dual 1 bbl intake for using 2 32-34 staged (where the 32 mm barrel is the primary)

all have mech secondaries if staged

these come in this flavors

Staged:

26-38 (hard 2 get)
32-34
34-34
34-36
36-36

non-staged (the 2 throttle blades open @ same time)
34-34
36-36
40-40

These are nearly as dependable and nice as carter BBD (but I can get all the new parts I want down here... you're lucky if you can find a carter bbd gaskets set @ local speed shops or parts store)

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Yes, D/W

I'm sick of holleys

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Looks like you are the only one who can get that carb, got pics?

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Pictures! We wanna see pictures!

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Does it look like this?

kindof, but bigger

No, that's a 34 EIES, mine is a 34 TEIE

I'll take some pix before installing it. I have to do some trick adapter because holes share sort of the same size... closer enough to make the fabrication of an adapter complicated but diffrent enough to not being able to butcher carb's body and get away with no modification

other great advantages that I forgot to mention:

you don't need throttle return spring. It has 3 springs stiff enough and reliable enough to forget about springs. And the 2 barrels opens towards the center so fuel distribution is greatly improved.

You can get electric chokes or coolant activated chokes, and there's a fancy device that cuts off the idle feed when you cut the ignition. I didn't get all those fancy add ons, I like my carbs simple and I don't like electric devices anywhere near the carb

when float closes the needle, you have an extra connection that sends back the excess of fuel

ain't have no metering block/s. the carbs' body contains all the pasages, fuel bowl cover is ontop the carb so you ain't get leaks,

emulsion tubes, bleeds, fuel jets comes in fancy metric steps. ie main fuel jet #145 would be 1.45 mm ( say #58) and decreases and increases in .05 mm steps. great fuel curve tailorage capability. air jets and idle assy are stamped the same as jets

fuel jets are almost on the bottom of the bowl, so cornering, hard acceleration oand braking issues are minimized

fuel bowl is rather small so the fuel pump doesn't sees long free flow/restricted flow & overpressure cycles

both barrels have separated idle adjustment

idle and transition circuits are independent as well.

throttle lever is very slant friendly. practically a 1920 or BBS bolt on replacement... if you have lokar or other cable kickdown but adapting a "normal" KD would be minor fab

accel pump nozzle (only on primary barrel) and all the accel pump mechanism is extremely sensitive, and works very well under various throttle position /pressures


Does have its drawbacks: no PCV provision, parts are very warpage prone (much like BBS, wich can be easily adressed by not allowing Godzilla to tinker with your carb... hehe) and mostly the adapter thing


It has many of the weber style advantages but w/o the price or the weber hassle (I hate them) I mean, great tuneability and almost infinite tailorage chances, and once you set it up no need to be fiddling around twice a day like Holleys.

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here are some pix

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Yeah, it is bigger

Let us know how it works!

What can you find in the way of air cleaners for it?

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

that's the million dollar question

I gotta find some options for this. mostly it would be: unsilenced open element, silenced, and the "modern" stuff wich has kind of a rubber snorkle and a tall but small diameter filter, like present cars.

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VW guys are big into solex-es. Check out Ebay for a sampling.

$25 air cleaner: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VW-EMPI- ... 1659QQrdZ1

I don't consider that an air cleaner.

Here, by the way, is the ebay string I have assigned to a "hot key": I just hit the hot key, the string gets typed for me, then all I have to do is paste the ebay item number on the end. It bypasses all the nonsense ebay's been doing lately with all the description words and extra characters in the URL:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

lotsa pix but not the one I wanna see: the carb side mounting flange... and I wonder if it fits my app.... solex name is only on the title, then when you read all the applications it fits you see only weber and dellorto (wich in plain english means litterally "from the a s s" hehehe that's some carb I won't be installing )

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So, who used these carbs? peugeot???
Or is it an aftermarket piece?

How would this compare to the Holley/Weber 5200 progressive two-barrel?

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1964 Valiant V200, 225/Pushbutton 904
BBD, CAI, HEI, LBP, AC, AM/FM/USB, EIEIO