No chokes on my carbs

I was just informed by the builder my carbs will not have chokes.

Is thier a kit avalble to put manel chokes on webbers ?

Im even concidering adapting the upper bells with a cable choke idea.

If you're concerned about cold weather starts and idling - maybe consider a 'throttle positioner' like the early 911's had ('67-'68-'69 I think).

This didn't actually 'choke' the carbs, but they held the throttle at a constant 'idle up' position while the engine warmed up. Once the engine warms up, then you release the 'throttle positioner'. Actually, it looks like a VW heater control lever and positioned in the similar location on the tunnel aside the stick shift. This might be less involved and cheaper than fabricating an actual choke mechanism.

...just a thought...

My DCNF Weber carbs, and I think others, come with a choke like device. People typically take them off and cover the opening on the side of the carb with a plate. One objection to them is that they allow unfiltered air into the carbs. I took mine off and threw them away. I thought about trying to make them work using the spare heat control lever.

The people you are getting the engine from may have actually taken the things off the carbs.

I recently saw some of these things for sale on Samba.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=284610

I don't know if these would fit your carbs.

Barry,
Where do you live?
I have IDF's on my car, and I don't have chokes.
I don't miss them either.
It always starts for me.
I do live in Sunny Calif. though.

You don't need no stinkin chokes! I live in the great white north and don't have chokes on my IDFs. Runs a bit rough for the first few minutes, but no big deal.

My 911 engine starts at minus 20 with no chokes on the Webers. Takes a bit of coaxing (and a high torque starter helps) and I let them warm up for a couple of minutes but that's all.

Gives you excuse to blip the throttle a few times to warm it up! So get a good throaty exhaust for full effect.

I reach into the car, pull the choke knob out, turn the key and it starts right up, idles about 1500.

Wonderful. I don't need it, but it sure is nice on cold Sacramento mornings.

I installed the chokes on my 44 IDFs 2 years ago. I used a mountain bike shifter in the cockpit and made a cable combiner(2 into 1) to split the choke cables to each carb. Works well when it's cold. An evenly running engine is MUCH nicer to the neighbors than blipping the throttle, especially when I leave for work at 6 am! No problems with dirt or anything else. I leave them on until I get past the stop signs in my village. Once the road opens up, they are unneeded. They work better when the idle bypass screws are out a half-turn, like the CB Weber book says to set them.

I've got choke-less 40mm Dellortos and have been out in the low-30's and I just have to pump it a few more times to get it to start, then let it warm up for about 30 - 60 seconds and it's good to go.

For you Northerners out there, yes, it gets that low in South Carolina.....for about a week.....then it warms right up and Winter's over!

Gordon has it right, as do some others here. I ran coupes many years ago, and they were my daily drivers. A year in Pittsburgh (it got to zero a few times) and many years in DC area, where itbgets cold too. Just gotta pump a bit more gas in there w/ the acc pump, and keep pumping once it catches. Never had chokes, and never seemed to need 'em.

You guys are right, I don't NEED them, I just did it for the neighbors sake.

It will be driven daily. I do have a extra cable tube on the bug But I think I will just design a electric choke kit with cables and a vacume pull off .I'd rater have choke here In North Carolina If it snows I will have to drive it in the snow to get to work They require you to be there even in snowy weather.

I have seen cold spells here in NC that lasted weeks and hovered in the teens. throw in the high humidity.and and it can get rough.