Has anyone got experience of fitting bike carbs to a ford Xflow (1.3)?
I have seen these on ebay, but just wondered how easy are they to set up (what needle is required) and do they deliver better performance compared to
the stock carb, or twin 40s?
Got bike carbs on my 1680 crossflow. never had them set up properly yet but are brill. Only thing i have found is due to angle of manifold/carbs air
fiter box is a prob due to being on curve of bonnet line . have yet to make up air sockets. Got mine from bogg bros all rejettted to suit.
How much do they roughly charge for their kit, and what does it include.
Cheers
Mathew
quote:Originally posted by dray13dad
Got bike carbs on my 1680 crossflow. never had them set up properly yet but are brill. Only thing i have found is due to angle of manifold/carbs air
fiter box is a prob due to being on curve of bonnet line . have yet to make up air sockets. Got mine from bogg bros all rejettted to suit.
Mine cost me just over 450 thats manifold (which is nice and polished) carbs as supplied striped cleaned and rejected with hoses and clips just bolt
on and go.oh thats including post and the dreaded vat.
Very pleased with my setup, 30mpg instead of 20 with Webers.
Paid £60 for the carbs off ebay, £100 for the manifold from a local engr co, and £100 rolling road to tune them.
Pics on my archive.
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Building: Book (Ron's) 1300 X-flow Locost 7
posted on 17/9/12 at 09:43 PM
I recently bought a set off a 600 Honda for Just under £20 off ebay. Got them for this because they were wrongly listed as an air box.
The manifold in that ad does not look like it's for an X-Flow engine.
The ebay listing is mine don't worry that it doesn't look like a crossflow manifold - I use generic pictures as explained in the
listing simply due to time (pics are all of my own work I hasten to add). One day I will go through all my listings and update them all but its no
easy task.
The ZZR carbs are nice and widely spaced making for a nice design manifold (not too cranked) and are actually near identical to the very popular ZX6R
(that aren't as nicely spaced).
quote:Originally posted by FASTdan
The ebay listing is mine don't worry that it doesn't look like a crossflow manifold - I use generic pictures as explained in the
listing simply due to time (pics are all of my own work I hasten to add). One day I will go through all my listings and update them all but its no
easy task.
The ZZR carbs are nice and widely spaced making for a nice design manifold (not too cranked) and are actually near identical to the very popular ZX6R
(that aren't as nicely spaced).
. 
don't worry that it doesn't look like a crossflow manifold - I use generic pictures as explained in the
listing simply due to time (pics are all of my own work I hasten to add). One day I will go through all my listings and update them all but its no
easy task. 
