Well that's a 10 to 1 vote in favor of the issue being a crappy tuner.... er I meant.... a rich carb. :smiley_smack:

Handicapped would be more appropriate in my case........:sieg:
Especially if it qualifies me for all that vacant prefered parking. :D

Us old two-stroke guys learned the lesson the hard way.........erroring on the rich side doesn't blow stuff up. :thumbsup:

nothing wrong with it....helps when you get tailgated alot. :bur2:

One thing I like about Lat-g is not posting in my project thread for 18 days and I've been bumped to position 114! :thumbsup:

Regarding the carb......I pulled it off to reverify butterfly positions and change back to the 6.5 (as delivered) power valves. Transfer slot exposure was .025 as I was told by the Holley Tech.......:headscratch: I thought screw that since I've been getting a crappy idle signal (rich at idle, lean at take off) and closed the primary and secondary butterflies then opened them a 1/4 turn, checked the pump linkage tension, went back to the 70 idle air jets as delivered, and set the fuel screws at 1 turn out.

Fired it up and tried to adjust to a stable 1K rpm idle with the idle air bypass circuit but it wanted to hunt a little. Gave it about 1/8 turn on P/S butterflies and readjusted the IA bypass and it was close. Put a vac gauge to it and set the fuel screws which end up around 1.25 turns. Bingo! It was close. Test drive indicated when slowing to a stop it wanted to stall, added an 1/8 turn on the full screws, better, another 1/8 and it's pretty close.

If that tech happens to read this............:smiley_smack:

Today the daughter and I took a quick trip to the scales to verify the car weight.............

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Weights are with just over 3/4 of a tank of fuel.
3360 with 90 lbs of fuel - Front 55.35% Rear 44.65%

Looking great Sieg, love your pictures.

Oprah eat your heart out...........:D
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Thanks mate :thumbsup:

Sieg, have you tried playing with your screw in air bleeds yet? I know back in the day I drilled the ones out in my HP 830 and it made a difference for the better. Cant remember the details now as it was so long ago but it maybe something to look into.

Yes, I started with the 70's, went to 68's (richer) in the goosechase, then back to the 70's for the sequel.......I also bought some 73's just in case. It's in the ballpark based on drivability but I need to get an AF gauge installed for verification. Then mount the GoPro to capture the AF gauge and tach for a little redneck telemetry. :D

Ran it up to 6.5K for the first time since the freshen up and slammed 2nd today leaving the weigh scales and had no transition complaints.

Still maybe a touch lean as it needs to get to full op temp for a good idle, 6th gear throttle response at 2K rpm with my 3:31 gears is nice and smooth. ALso has a slight surge under trailing throttle when cornering, I believe that indicates a slight lean condition which fuel screw adjustments should eliminate.

The tuning weather here has been 48*-62* then 59*-84* windy cloudy rain and varying humidity........in one week. :D

It should be good enough to make a trip to T-Hill if the stars align right! :unibrow:

When r u guys going? My LS is complete (mostly) and is in dire need of a good road trip and T-hill is about 2.5 hr from my house and i'd love to meet some of you guys and watch, although my beast is not ready for the trac yet, though u never know....

Btw thanx for the KTM country referal, Bart was great and now my orange bike is white and black with Pirelli dot trails tire on it for the Tahoe loop....

Mike