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In Reply to: Re: how come? posted by Dale Phelps on June 21, 2001 at 12:29:15:
-Andrey
I own a big six (my Golf E3) with tri-weber 48's.
It is faster than hell and holds its own against the NA IMSA CSLs, but is strictly track-only.
Now the Kormann stuff is obviously more commercially-available, I have something similar in a Alpina B2S tri-weber 45 setup with cam that was one of the commercially available tuning kits during the early 2800/3.0 CS days.
The Alpina kit is slated it for the replacement car I'm building for the out-of-commission 2270011 (spun off-road in January's rainstorms and currently in hibernation while I mourn) BUT it is going on a 3.5 liter late-model engine,
in a relatively light car that will be used for little if any street use.
IMO tri-webers are best-suited to fire-breathing high-rpm motors where the HP curve is pretty far to the right of the charts. They CAN be jetted to be streetable, but really only work for street on large displacement engines. Anything bigger than 40's even on a 3.5 will be too hard to get idle jets set right and you'll still have a big problem with un-burned gas washing the cylinder walls (=high-wear, low-mileage)
Believe it or not, if you are thinking of all that tweak-work and expense, you can get by with less $$ and less headaches and really GOOD street performance with factory Zeniths. Get a set that have not been warped from excessive heat, build them properly and thoroughly, and they'll give you tens of thousands of trouble-free fun-filled miles. If you guys wanna correspond about multi-carb setups, feel free to e-mail me.
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