Installing new pipe, (Bike is Slower )
Before installing a pipe check the following, it will save you a ton of head aches. Compression 90 LB. is good below this a pipe will only slow the bike down make it worse, if it is order new rings. Look at the variator closlely in the cradle area, look for cracks and uneven wear , replace it if these symtoms are present. This will cause the variator to hang in low or high or bog at times, replace it.
A two stroke pipe raises the power band in the motor, depending on pipe construction where the power band comes in, down low, or built for mid and top end, this all depends on how the pipe was designed. after installing a pipe and the trans kit, (Do Not Install the side cover) Start the engine and hold the rear brake and slowly increase the rpm"s untill the clutch grabs, pay attention to the front pulley and see how far the belt is moving up the pulley, 1/4 inch is all right. If the belt is moving more than this one of two problems needs to be corrected. Either the springs have too much tension or the rollers are to heavy, or both? Rule of thumb, for MX racing the Malossie springs 29 8747 either the red or blue will launch the bike, in some instances you will have to use the black ones, (do not lighten the clutch shoes, with the right spring installed the clutch will stay locked up and will last a long time, lightened shoes have a tendency to slip, bike sounds like a bumble bee but is not going any where? for a pipe that has good bottom and mid use part number 29 9605.
Rollers use 3.5 gram to a 5.5 gram roller, experiment with a 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 and see what the bike likes. Make sure you install a red or yellow clutch center spring, this applies pressuere to the belt at low speeds and forces the variator to follow the belt at higher RPM's
What occors at high rpms is this the heavyer the weight in the variator the slower the variator will expand and allow the belt to move down inside the variator,(Drive hard into a corner and try to accelerate and the bike bogs) by using a heaver spring in the rear the more gram weight you can install in the variator and the faster the bike will go.
Tune the engine around the pipe:
Install new plug and ride the bike for about 5 minutes, even if the bike is lazy , what you are looking for is if it is too lean or too rich both will cause the bike to be lazy. pull the plug , If its black its to rich, If it is a yellowish or dark brown too lean, a perfect jetting is a plug will look as if it had never been in a motor with just a wisk of tan on the exhaust side of the plug. When you get here the bike is flying. Ha Ha.
To lean the carb. There is 5 slots on the needle move the clip to the top slot this is full lean, The bottom is richer, and see if the bike is responding more positve, By moving the needle this will tell you what the bike needs for jet.
Ok! you have installed the pipe have the red clutch spring in and the belt is only moving a 1/4 inch the plug looks good and the bike is still a t--d. What I have found a lot of times is that the clutch has too much shoe spring and by coming down 500 to 800 rpms before lock up, the bike will start launching good, what is happing is the motor is overpowering the the belt and causing it to slip,
next no top speed, launches good but no top speed.
There is a ton of varables here I will try to cover all of them,
Roller weight go up a little in gram weight, watch the front pulley to see if the belt is climing all the way to the top. If not try rollers or a longer belt, most belt part numbers are 780x16.6 30 there is a 780 16.8 30 and a 780 17.0 30 that are longer try one of these.
Trans gears and Sprockets:
Trans gears should be 11-31 this is a 2.81 drive ratio and works good with 16 or 18 inch tall tires.
Sprockets 18 to 19 front 25 to 28 rear I perfer 18-25 for MX and 18-22 or 20 for TT.
In the world of Auto-matic engines , these engines have very little tourqe, rod ratio is off a ton, So we have to create a false torque to make a 400 lb bike (with rider) run 60mph.
The variator is the key to this by slowing down the action or movement of the belt in the front pully we are creating torque thru gear ratios. When the belt reaches the top of the variator the torque has reached the lower value of the motors tourqe. By using 11-31 gears or 12-36 3.0 ratio and 18-25 sprockets we have slowed down the variator incresed torque, and still have great wheel speed.
If you use a 32 or 35 rear sprocket on the rear, you just eleminated the variator, this causes the belt to move up the pulley faster, and all you get is a high reving bike .
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