View Poll Results: Boost it with carbs, old school style, or FI this bitch?
Old School (Carbs)
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16.67%
New School (FI)
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I F*#&ing hate carbs... Can I get that with the weak sauce?
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I hate carbs as well. I bought a 1986 Yamaha Radian 2 years ago and spent months trying to get it working. That included 3 full sets of carbs, i assembled one good set with many new internal parts. Then once it ran I found out the clutch was bad and it didn't have compression in cylinder 3. Sold that sucker and got into the miata like I should have in the first place.
I just want the damn carbs to work, is that asking too much?
Obviously it is... Fuel injection is the answer. LOL.
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carbs are awesome. that garbly sound...good ****. tuning 4 carbs sucks. I have a gsx700 that I've rebuilt the carbs on. not that hard. dynojet sells kits with adjustable needles and multiple jets. get an o-ring kit and bowl gaskets and you've got everything you need to rebuild your carbs. the body's never go bad, you just need to soak them in carb cleaner.
go here http://www.oldskoolsuzuki.info/ to the forced induction section for some good ideas/pictures
and you don't need to do any fancy grafting of fuel injected throttle bodies onto a carb'd motor, just build an air box and route your compressor outlet into that. pretty simple. instead of bigger injectors, you use bigger jets. you people act as if no one put a turbo on a car before there was fuel injection...
go here http://www.oldskoolsuzuki.info/ to the forced induction section for some good ideas/pictures
and you don't need to do any fancy grafting of fuel injected throttle bodies onto a carb'd motor, just build an air box and route your compressor outlet into that. pretty simple. instead of bigger injectors, you use bigger jets. you people act as if no one put a turbo on a car before there was fuel injection...
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carbs are simple, bar none.
if carbs frustrate you, end game. go Fi
still a pointless exercise considering i used to bve the service manager of a kaw dealer, and never seen anything worth puking on, regardless of how well it seemed to the owner
if carbs frustrate you, end game. go Fi
still a pointless exercise considering i used to bve the service manager of a kaw dealer, and never seen anything worth puking on, regardless of how well it seemed to the owner
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I made a franken bike once. 1980s Suzuki GS500 + turbo, carbs, fuel system bits from a Yamaha 650 seca turbo. I didn't even play with the jets just ran pig rich but it was epic fun 
It was a real sleeper because I put the turbo under the seat where the original airbox was then put a cover over the side to hide it. apart from the odd exhaust routing that cooked my leg medium rare it looked stock.
Now im back in the uk I'm limited to 33.3hp for another year :( so thats why I have a ninja 250
It was a real sleeper because I put the turbo under the seat where the original airbox was then put a cover over the side to hide it. apart from the odd exhaust routing that cooked my leg medium rare it looked stock. Now im back in the uk I'm limited to 33.3hp for another year :( so thats why I have a ninja 250
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I made a franken bike once. 1980s Suzuki GS500 + turbo, carbs, fuel system bits from a Yamaha 650 seca turbo. I didn't even play with the jets just ran pig rich but it was epic fun It was a real sleeper because I put the turbo under the seat where the original airbox was then put a cover over the side to hide it. apart from the odd exhaust routing that cooked my leg medium rare it looked stock.
Now im back in the uk I'm limited to 33.3hp for another year :( so thats why I have a ninja 250
It was a real sleeper because I put the turbo under the seat where the original airbox was then put a cover over the side to hide it. apart from the odd exhaust routing that cooked my leg medium rare it looked stock. Now im back in the uk I'm limited to 33.3hp for another year :( so thats why I have a ninja 250
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mark my old 500 had a small lower fairing that might help distract turbo bits if you painted them all black, i'll see if i can dig up a picture
can't find mine but here's a pic off the net
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...&ct=image&cd=1
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+1, my bike has the belly pan. You could sheath the turbo in some sheet metal, and paint the whole bike (and sheet metal) flat black. Then it would just look like a beater, that would shame some 600's.
Also, carb/fuelie route, honestly whatever you think will be easiest. This shouldn't be a project that you beat yourself up over- but rather put together for fun, and surprise some people.
That turbo is cute btw.. lol
Also, carb/fuelie route, honestly whatever you think will be easiest. This shouldn't be a project that you beat yourself up over- but rather put together for fun, and surprise some people.
That turbo is cute btw.. lol
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