2e3 carb on a DF

[beachiain]

I've got bad problems with my carb and cold starting, sounds like it's running on 2 or 3 cyl's for the first few minutes, gentle throttle makes it splutter out bud foot hard down makes it roar away (as much as it's possible for a 1.9wbx to) I've read the wiki and there's a couple of things I'm going to try out, carb heater and vacuum.

Out of curiousty, I was looking at the haynes bible for help, and it states that 1.9DF engine would have a pict 34 on it, mines got a 2E3, does anyone know if that's normal and if not whether it's going to give me problems?

[beachiain]

P.S. once it's warmed up it runs fine, though suspect the mixture might be a bit rich. It's an '84 caravelle, RHD, 1.9wbx DF code, recent plugs, leads, air filter, air freshener and CD holder

[Laurie]

Loads of DF engines are runnig on 2e carbs. No probs, except the 2e carbs are all beginning to show their age. You could fit a pair of 34 ICTs with type 3 manifolds on there and get one hell of a difference in performance.

[Simon Baxter]

It depends if the DF has DG heads as the DF has smaller inlet ports on the heads.
It would work, however it would work much better with DG heads too.

[beachiain]

thanks for the input

Any hints on how to tell if it's DG heads would be appreciated. As far as I know it's been reconned at some point though don't know exactly what was done

Either way I've got a cold weekend of figuring out the puzzle that is the disconnected/loose hanging/butchered wiring and vacuum pipes that's back there, didn't want to lounge around the house, with coffee/beer, heat, TV anyway

[Laurie]

The ports on the bottom of your manifold will be about 10mm deeper than the DF heads and same width.