Flavia 1800 Coupe questions
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Jaro
Flavia 1800 Coupe questions
Did any of you Flavia owners do a twin carb conversion on your 1800 coupe? I will have to rebuild my singe SolexPAIA carb, but I also have a pair of Weber IDF40 and Solex PII carbs to use... so I am thinking of an upgrade to twin carb setup as on the Zagato 1800... I also have an old picture of a 1800Coupe with two carbs... I have a few magazine articles on people who did the conversions ( Udo Dörich and Helmut GÜnther - do you know them ? ) ... but there are very few details on how they did it...
I also have to renew my exhaust... Do you have any idea, why the Subaru boxer engine sounds so deep ? I would like to have the same sound on my Flavia... I know I ask a lot, but I really like it ! Any ideas ?
Also... two of my original Flavia steel wheels are in a very poor condition... I am afraid that they are rusted through... I bought a 1970 Mille Miglia alu (or mag) wheels (14¨) with 4x130mm wheel holes . They were on VW Bug... I calculated the ET(offset) of Flavia... It is around 48... and these are 35 so it should not be a problem... I also found ATS Classic alu wheels 5.5x15 with VW bug 4x130mm wheel holes. Do you think I would have problems running on 14 inch wheels instead original 15 inch ?
I know that the best way is to keep it stock and original... but I would really like to do this conversions and give my Coup a little sportier feeling...
And another thing : What kind of engine oil do you use in your boxers ?
Thanks for any reply !
Jaro
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Bert Ewalds
Re: Flavia 1800 Coupe questions
Jaro,
Don't know about the other questions but I had 14" alloys on my Flavia Coupe
I built it back to original steel wheels, but I still don't know what I liked best.
Sold the alloys though (Flavia 2000)
On 14" wheels you will have to grind of a corner off the handbrake mechanism at the rear els the mechanism will not fit into the wheel
Also you will have to bend the copper pipes on the callipers very close to the calliper bodies, else they will be in contact to the inner rims and you will not have brake pressure for long
Bert
Don't know about the other questions but I had 14" alloys on my Flavia Coupe
I built it back to original steel wheels, but I still don't know what I liked best.
Sold the alloys though (Flavia 2000)
On 14" wheels you will have to grind of a corner off the handbrake mechanism at the rear els the mechanism will not fit into the wheel
Also you will have to bend the copper pipes on the callipers very close to the calliper bodies, else they will be in contact to the inner rims and you will not have brake pressure for long
Bert