Getting a bit more space for triple Webers... or EFI

[HealeyPassion]

For you guys installing triple Webers that would like a bit more room... in my case for the fuel rail on my fuel injection (EFI)… I offer this. For what I'm calling the throttle box... mounting point for the accelerator... a mod that will be appreciated under the hood and will not effect the driver when it's done. I gained 1 1/2" of much needed space by lowering the top of the throttle box. You then shorten the accelerator pedal by 1 1/2" and nothing has changed for the driver. I incorporated the original fold of the stock metal to keep it looking "original." I did the same thing on my previous EFI car and some real Healey experts, even on close inspection, never spotted the change.

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[healeyblue]

Nice! I like that it looks factory and adds just the amount of room needed.

 

[Randy Forbes]

Good job, but for the manifolds I bought (circa 1985), I needed more room higher up, to fit an air filter. I reduced the width of where the hanging pedal bracket goes to the absolute minimum__it's just enough to slip a 1-3/4" height filter in there. Note that I made up a combined air filter housing, tying all three (3) carbs together, but follows the same general dimensions as the 1-3/4" individual assemblies.

Filter elements and top/front cover fitted. Cover made from surplus stainless steel flashing, bent on a brake with punched/belled holes, secured with 10/32nd BHCS.

A means to an end! I've considered going with fuel injection (as far back as the Haltech units in the 90s) but the Webers have been great, and I can olny recall tuning them 3 or 4 times; initial installation in '85 (this took a while to dial them in, but I lived in an IDEAL RURAL LOCATION to do repeated plug cuts, coasting into my driveway) than again once I moved the car to Ohio and finished the restoration and got it running, and finally, some eight years ago when I moved it back down to Florida. The problem most people have with Webers__assuming they get them set up right in the first place__is they don't know how to keep their #%$&@*! hands off them! Get 'em right, and don't touch 'em

 

[HealeyPassion]

Looks good Randy! Yes, it is dependent on what manifolds you use. A friend of mine that installed Webers needed both this mod (the one I've shown) and the mod you did to get them to fit. Another friend bought different manifolds for his triple Webers and didn't do anything! So apparently .... it all depends. I need this mod to fit my fuel rail... if I had used shorter injectors I could have gotten by without doing anything. The problem with that was it put the fuel rail closer to the headers than I was comfortable with... so changed to longer injectors and did this mod to the throttle box to get some more distance between fuel rail and headers.