[Fot] Weber carb question

[Bill Babcock]

45DCOE9's are common as bellybuttons. 45 is the throat size (45 MM) DC means
dopio corpo or dual throat, O means horizontal (orizzontale) E means die cast,
and 9 is the variation number of the DCOE format. So that means if there is a
9 there's an 8, as well as 1 through 7, though how many of those survive is
hard to say. Once they got to DCOE9 the variation number never changed as far
as I know, though according to my weber book and Wikipedia there are at least
ten variations of the DCOE9 carb.

So yeah, there are eights, but they're just an earlier variant. My Maserati
Mistral has 45DCOE9's fitted in place of the troublesome Lucas fuel injection.
A common mod for Mistrals which made them slightly MORE reliable than a
rabbit's romance instead of slightly LESS.

As an aside, one really confusing thing about Webers is the emulsion tube
numbers. The reason no one is successful in getting emulsion tubes just right
is that they are not numbered according to flow rate (as  main, air
correction, and idle jets are) but by their chronological order of
manufacture. The number has NO meaning other than that.


On Apr 12, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Bob Davis <rdavis4 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> Is anyone familiar with a 45dcoe8....if there is such a carb?
>
> thxx,
> Bob
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