I have an 81 brat with an ea81. the car has trouble starting and idling until its warmed up. I narrowed it down to the carb. it's missing the automatic choke cover and many components. I was going to get a weber eventually, but i would like to have some option of an inexpensive fix, so i can get it smogged. I was checking out rebuild kits, but they don't include the pieces i need. any ideas?

I have an 81 brat with an ea81. the car has trouble starting and idling until its warmed up. I narrowed it down to the carb. it's missing the automatic choke cover and many components. I was going to get a weber eventually, but i would like to have some option of an inexpensive fix, so i can get it smogged. I was checking out rebuild kits, but they don't include the pieces i need. any ideas?

 

I believe you can use parts from either the Hitachi 2 barrel EA71 carbs or the Hitachi 2 barrel EA81 carbs. Find someone who is doing a Weber swap and buy their old carb from them for parts. Of if you source up a good stock carb for not a lot, swap it on, should be pretty straight forward.

 

Carbs to watch out for are the Carter-Weber single barrel EA81 carb, Hitachi 2 barrel EA81 computer controlled carb and the Hitachi 2 barrel EA82 carbs

Thanks for the input, I have a bit more direction now.

I have 3 ea71 Hitachi carbs. I would be glad to give one up if your interested. I live in New Mexico, let me know......Peter

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