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BIKE CARBS Versus WEBER DCOEs

Although common today, fitting bike carbs to car engines is nothing new. Back in the 1960s racers were using Amal carbs robbed from things like Manx Nortons on car engines. I know many can’t get their head around how can a set of carbs from a 600cc motorcycle work on a 2-litre car engine, but the reality is, engines consume air! They all run on more or less the same air/fuel ratio so 100 bhp requires the same amount of air whether it’s a 2-litre engine turning at 5000 rpm or a 600cc engine running at 10,000 rpm. So if you can get the air-fuel ratio (AFR) right and the carbs are sized to allow sufficient airflow it does not really matter what

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