Carb rebuild time

Ok I knew from the moment I got the car, that the carb wasn`t right. The car didn`t feel crisp it ran ok and it started right up but it wasn`t right. Also the gas consumption seem high, at under 20 mpg.

So I finally took it apart two weeks ago, omg the were so many things wrong with the carb. I never seen anything even close to the amount of damage. By the way the carb is a weber 32/36 dfav. The person who took it apart last, stripped 5 bolts, used goop on it no gaskets, used so much torque to bolt it down that it bent the actual carb body. He also strip the jets so much that it was impossible to tell the size of them. To top it off, he also stripped 2 of the studs on the manifold body.

So I spend about 3 hours getting this thing back into shape, tools need included a propane torch and c-clamps and mallet. After everything was put back together it ran better, the idle was good, but still not crisp. So I knew that the jetting was wrong.

Now no one had the jets in san diego, later I tried to order them online. But the company has a crappy internet order setup which met that I got an email days later telling me to fax the order in. That pissed me off, so I called around again. I finally got a guy that it seems willing to help me, I go down to place the order. Now he tells me that he gets his stuff from this people and that is going to take a week maybe two to get my jets. I just said thanks but no thanks.

Ok I go online again and go directly to TEP, I got all my jets in two days. Faster than the last time I ordered from them. Now the jetting specs I got were given to me and to other people by a bimmer guy named c.d. from the bmw2002faq forum. So I used the specifications that he uses, what a difference, the car runs way better and it pulls to red line. Now I`m waiting to see what mileage I get.

So thats how easy is to get your carb rebuild, I think is easy but you have to be careful.