Re: Photos?
Does anyone have any pictures of a Yugo EFI manifold on or off a car?
Does anyone know if it 'fits' an X19 chassis .. with / without engine cover/ body mods?
I have a few photos of the Yugo EFI manifold itself, the entire EFI setup as installed in the Yugo, & a modified manifold in an X & a 128.
Back in the early 2000's, I made a custom intake manifold/carb setup for my 128, using a Yugo EFI manifold modified to fit a Weber 38DCOE carb to it (carb sitting over engine with throats facing
forward). Since my 128 was my daily-driver & I couldn't afford to have it off the road at the time, we used my friends' '74 1300 X1/9 as a "test mule" for the setup while we fine-tuned the manifold angle, carb jetting, etc..
The manifold itself fit ok in the X's engine bay (in our modified-for-carb form), but the top of the DCOE carb would hit the bottom of the (already low-profile) '74 engine lid, so we simply cut a hole in a used lid & made a little pop-up type intake scoop for clearance there (which, after testing, we discovered actually functioned as a
vent for the hot air in the engine bay to escape from).
Judging by the OEM Yugo installation photo (below), you'd likely need to make a custom air filter box or just route an-extra-long air duct to the FI X's air cleaner unit. Not sure if the large 4-bolt hose flange on the Yugo manifold (near/over the timing belt cover) would interfere with the X1/9 engine lid frame or not, since I had cut that flange off the Yugo manifold & welded up the air intake port as part of my modification.
When I finally swapped this manifold/carb unit onto my 128, I also needed extra carb-to-hood clearance, so a spare 128 hood was sacrificed for "testing". The first version was a rather crude box vent/cover to cover the hole cut in the hood & protect the carb. I later removed the ugly box vent/cover & replaced it with a hood bulge that I cut out from a junkyard Mitsubishi Eclipse's hood. :headbang:
Much better aesthetics, though I never got around to actually welding it onto the hood & smoothing the seam (ie: "done proper", as I'd intended) - it was merely held in place with a few rivets around the perimeter.
Anyhow, here are some pics of the Yugo EFI manifold in various uses:
Bare Yugo EFI intake manifold:
Stock Yugo GVPlus EFI setup:
My modified Yugo EFI "SideWinder Prototipo" manifold next to a stock Yugo EFI manifold:
My modified manifold/carb setup itself:
As installed in the Test Mule X1/9:
The modified X1/9 engine lid (sort of a "Mini-Periscopio"):
As installed in my 128 Wagon:
Modified spare 128 hood with crude box vent/cover, aka the "Upside-Down Cake Pan". Ugly as sin, but did the job! The best detail of this (which I ended up keeping) was the rolled-up rear lip of the hood sheetmetal (best seen in this pic), which was done in order to keep rain water from running down the hood & directly onto the carb/filter assembly (there were small side-ports to redirect any water). At the time I was making this setup, we were in the middle of an unusually-heavy rainy season, hence the need...:
Re-modified spare 128 hood, now fitted with Eclipse hood bulge sheetmetal & painted white to match the car:
Anyway, enough about that... :bla:
Hopefully by the pics I've shown, you'll be able to better gauge if this Yugo manifold will work/fit for whatever purpose you intend on the X. :wink2:
