I once met a guy who had a late model Pinto. He was a Cal-Tech student. One day he opened up the hood, looked at the emissions control stuff, and said "Look! There's an Alien Space Parasite sucking the life out of my engine!"

He then removed and capped all the vacuum lines and other unnecessary things on the carb until he had just throttle, choke, gas line, air filter, and mixture coming out the bottom. He said it ran much better after that.

My 22R OEM carb in somewhat intimidating. I don't think I could quite figure out the vacuum lines if anything got tangled. I do look at the Weber DGV carbs and think about putting one of them on, but since I have the OEM and don't have a Weber...

Has anyone tried this?

Oh yeah: This is the engine in my parts truck, which I'll have to move if I want to do anything useful with it. My road truck is a 22RE, but there's fiddly bits with that that make me wonder if just swapping out the EFI for the intake and carb off the 22R.

 

There is already a bunch of threads on this. And no he's not the only one to have de-smoged an engine.

 

Well then this thread will probably go away. But now I know the search term "De-smog".

Just to be sure, can you point me to a few of those threads?

 

I drive my 22R truck every day with no vacuum lines but the ones to the distributor and it runs great.

Had an RE swapped Samurai a while back that ran like a dream with no vacuum lines but the one to the fuel pressure regulator. Don't carb swap your RE truck, that's just a great way to take a step down in power and driveability.

 

This should get you started ;-)

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f114...ly-22r-205845/