Universeman

Found a couple of pretty decent looking all season tires from Kumho (KR21) and Sumitomo (HTR T4) on Tirerack.com in a 185/70R13 for just $54 a pop.

It's fixed, just forty buck for a temp switch from Napa, works like a champ now.

I have an 82 Brat and my cooling fan is not turning on and it is overheating unless I am moving at a good speed. I just connected the fan directly to the battery and it works fine. The haynes manual has very limited info on the thermo switch and before I order parts I wanted to verify that it is the culprit. I just need to know where the switch is and if I can check its operation. Thanks

Cool thanks for the advice I'll have to tweek it a bit, I drive it about 2 miles a day so milage isent too much of a concern but every little bit helps for sure.

Just wanted to post a follow up to this project, I can't beleive that its been 4 months already. Everything is still running great and I got the choke figured out so now it runs just fine in the morning even down in the teens. I'm avraging around 20mpg but thats ok I love it when the two barrel kicks in and it just takes off like a scalded cat so I'm not too worried about the poor milage.

Here ya go GD this should clear up how I hooked the valve cover breathers and the PCV into the air cleaner. One other question for you, the electric choke isent working, is there a temp sensor I need to hook up for it to work? I cut the harness off of the old carb and plugged it in but nada

Thanks hatch, what do you mean by unscrewing the front idle jet? Is that in order to install the 60 or do you mean simply remove it?

Here's the final setup with the 1.75" EMPI air cleaner assembly which is way better quality than the aircleaner from Redline. The Weber has made a huge difference in the drivability of the Brat and it has way more power at highway speeds, going 75-80 mph is no problem now, if only I had a 5 speed

Mission accomplished, thanks for all the advice GD and everyone else! Man what a difference that carb made in exceleration she's so zippy now, a real blast to drive! I was looking at how the adaptor plate and intake manifold was a little mismatched as well as being mismatched to the Weber carb so I went to work with a half round file with excelant results i also got some of that 2 part epoxy putty and filled in the collant passage which completly fixed the leak issue. Also by sealing up the coolant passage to the old carb I was able to use the supplied gasket insted of the Loctite gasket maker as GD had suggested. Here's the adaptor plate and the intake manifold With the exception of the adaptor plate I was not particularly impressed with the Redline kit because they diden't give any indication on their web page that the "Brat kit" was incompatable with the Carter/Webber carb intake manifold, although it does have a note that the kit is for models with the hitachi carb so be sure to read the fine print. Also the 2 5/8" tall air cleaner set up that comes with the kit hits the hood and needs to be replaced with a 1 3/4 air cleaner, which I got for $28 shipped from http://www.webercarbsdirect.com/default.asp In the end these were minor issues but I'm a lot smarter now and I very glad that I took this project on, it was a learning experence and I get to have the satisfaction of having done it my self, with your help, thanks for all the advice it was invaluable to my success and I hope that this post helps someone else who migh be thinking about doing this excelant mod.

Got her put back together and she's running real nice except for the throttle cable issue (will be in tomorrow morning) a couple of other minor issues and one major issue. The issue here is that there is a coolant leak at the gasket where the adaptor plate bolts to the intake manifold, has anyone else delt with this I was just going to get some coolent system RTV and stick that on there but I want it to be a solid/permanant solution so if theres a better way I'm all ears.

Thanks again GD, as soon as the engine cools off I'm installing I'll let yall know how it goes

Ok I'm just about ready to dive into the installation, I have a couple of questions first. For the fuel return line as there's no provision for it on the Weber I assume that I'll just cap it off, wheres the best place to do this? Also what's the best thing to do with the EGR stuff?

Thanks for the heads up on the clearence issue GD, I'm definatly going to talk to Redline about that, especially considering that the kit is supposed to be specific for my brat! Looking at it it did seem a little tall to me.

Thanks again GD, I am however concerned about the air cleaner set up that Redline sent with the kit, the clips seem flimsey and the sides of the filter bow in and are not flush with the sides of the filter housing. Should I rais the BS flag with Redline, it has already been indicated that I could have gotten this same setup for less. At any rate I hope the pictures I'm posting are helpfull to someone who might also be considering this mod as well.

Is this a EA81 manifold? I think that it is because the adaptor that came with my kit looks like it will fit. It sure cleaned up nice at any rate Here's the Brat, it has the carter/weber carb setup Heres where the manifold came from, this is not this brats engine, it had a hitachi carb fortunately.