Single carb for 4 cylinder??

[wannabbuilder]

I came across a gentleman 2 weeks ago, i was looking at a Springer front end for sale. He brought out his 70's model custom Honda 750 or 1000 (something like that) was in a Redneck Engineeering frame, sounded very good.

BUT!!!!

He was running a single carb running into a homemade manifold to the intake all the way across the board..... I could see the first 2 carbs getting enough fuel but the second 2, not real sure about that.

Anybody have experience with something like this? I can weld a whole lot better than i can work/adjust carbs, if i could get down to 1, well that would minimize a lot of my tinkering (messing up).

Also he had a single airfilter on the top housing of the motor, (very similar to the hose that goes from the top of the motor on a gs that goes to the air box). He used a 9.99 air filter from auto zone....

Anybody think this motor will last long??

IT SOUNDED GOOD!!!

[crapwacker]

Holly 350 double pumper?

[wannabbuilder]

Nope, it was a CV carb or SS, (not sure if same) he looked on the SS website for jet sizing...

[mistertoadie]

No reason why it wouldn't last as long as it's not running too lean. Single carbs on multi cylinders are no new thing. If it works on a straight 6 truck or car motor, or even an old straight 8 like a pontiac, why not on a 4? My old Arctic cat snowmobiles had single carbs on twin cylinder 2 strokes.

[rphillips]

Most bike turbos run thru 1 carb. I had a KZ1300 6 cyl. Turbo with 1 carb

[blowerbike]

buy a turbo manifold from a turbo kit.
you could put a 42-44 HRS mikuni on it ect..
i run one 1 7/8" carb on a 1325cc... makes about 300HP give or take.

[wannabbuilder]

Interesting, i might give it a shot. If i stick with the four carb setup, anybosy know where to get the individual air filters, as cheap as possible.

Oh and a gasket/ring/bearing set for this bike?? I have not had very good luck with the googleing of it either.

Thanks.

1982 Suzuki GS650L(GL?)

[sachsaca]

I had a friend that drag raced a z1r and he had a 2 barrel holley under the seat and it ran wickedly fast and was very consistent in it's every day driving. He had a custom made 4 into 1 intake. It had a box that the carb sat on and I'm pretty sure it had 4 pipes coming out, almost like the TPFI intake air boxes. Good Luck.