Anyone had problems with them i.e. workmanship with regards to bike carb conversions?

Stripped a set of R1 carbs today, the previous owner of the car had bought the carbs, manifold etc.. all work carried out by Bogg Brothers - I have the reciept for just over £600.00 of work done.

Very dissapointed when I stripped them today after experiencing running problems - Needle circlip not seated, just bouncing around loose on the diaphram. There was an extra 'O' ring again just left loose in a different diaphram. The previous owner claims he never noticed but the casing was cracked - typical carb from a crashed bike and in all fairness , without stripping the carbs it would be difficult to notice.

Also it appears that some sort of glue was used to stick down the diaphrams rather than just using them as intended - the rubber outer ring is a seal in itself and needs no additional sealer.

I obviously cannot say for sure that the previous owner did not mess about with the carbs.... but considering they were only bought back last September I have no reason to doubt his word.

Just a heads up for anyone considering this conversion and dealing with the company to give the carbs a good check over and strip down before fitting to the car.

 

had a crossflow manifold built,sent the carbs unto them for assembly on it.not impressed,sold them on cheap.stick to webbers.

 

Well ive used them twice and cant fault them tbh , had weber a rebuild and dyno runs and they have been spot on . Old man boggy also gave us a free newman cam he had laying about which is now makimg its way into the mk1's new 2.1 pinto so they cant be all bad !

 

I'm not putting them down because I can't say for certain that the previous owner of the car didn't mess with them ... but considering they were purchased at the end of September last year and have only been fitted to the car for approx 4 months, I can't see why he would have messed with them unless he cocked up on installation and shitted them up somehow?

I'm just giving a heads up to people to check them over before fitting - I dont know much about the company, only what I have read - most of which is good.

I've managed to do a decent repair now so I'll be keeping them on the car.

 

mine work amazing on pinto never play up

 

ive had bike carbs on my xflow for over 10,000 miles and theyre superb BUT bogg brothers arent, got the kit from them and had shit loads of problems, mainly its attitude on the phone from steve, couldnt give 2 shits once you've paid. and as for the glue?? exact same thing on mine, i rang for spare parts and was told they didnt know what bike they were off and if i wanted them to fix them i had to send them back, and i quote "you'll have to wait for a fucked set to come in as im not breaking a good set to fix yours" WTF!! id paid £550.00 all in and wont be doing that again with them. on a plus note though, the dad runs the rolling road and he's always been bang on and the welding on the ali manifold is fantastic, but customer service and after sales service is just shocking. id buy a manifold from them but source every other part myself, carbs, £70, throttle cable is a mountain bike brake cable from halfords for £1.99! they charged me £15. filter cocks £20, 12v bike fuel pump from the same bike as the carbs, £20, and im rolling on 45mpg with 120bhp, thank you, lol.

 

Thanks for that dawesy1700 - seems that my attempt to simply make people aware of something for their own good on another forum has got a few people heavily defending Bogg Brothers LOL ... I never intended to slag the company off, I wanted to make people aware and for my own interest, I wanted to know whether or not to deal with them myself in the future.

As for sourcing parts - how did you go about it? I know that my carbs are off a R1 - They are working fine with the repairs I've made, but I'd like to pick up some spares incase the seals for the diaphrams don't hold.

 

you need to find out exactly what year R1 they came off then just source the parts from the net or your local bike shop. i was lucky in that i have zx750r carbs and they used the same ones during that bikes production, but i can get an entire set for £70 off fleebay, so parts should be a piece of piss. (just dont EVER ask which are better, bike carbs or webbers, that shit storm takes ages to go away, hahaha)