My Sylva with the Kawasaki engine being fitted that is.
Been buggering about with the wiring, making up a temporary loom to get it running. Came in tonight and tried it and it ran. Not for long, but it ran.
Almost as good, my man with the waterjet machine has made me a paddle for the gearshift too.
You are going to need either a stage 3 dynojet kit or the original airbox before it will run remotely well.
Was thinking that very thing actually, as I won't have the airbox and my exhaust is totally different.
Bike engines are like musical instruments and rely on air box resonances and exhaust tuning etc,
You NEED the air box, especially in a car as it props up the midrange quite apart from fixing the fueling... And a bike 4 into 1 exhaust will help too even if you have to reshape as they are all tuned lengths...
You should have gone suzuki though!
As far as carburation goes other than idle stock CVs wont work without either a correctly fitted and set up (dynamometer) stage 3 dynojet kit. or the OEM airbox (best) Randomly fitting the stage 3 bits will get it going but not properly.
It should be fun.
Dump the carbs and fit a cheap mr, turbo draw through kit, it will run correctly and have 280 bhp without trying. At least it would if suzuki!
Well it's a good job that's exactly what I've done then.
I haven't though.
Not possible - wouldn't fit under the bonnet. I do know someone who runs the same engine as me without an airbox quite succesfully. This was his spare engine, so getting advice on correct carburation won't be a huge problem.
Yes, in an ideal world maybe. What do you mean by cheap ? £50 s/h ?
If it's more than that then you and I have different understandings of cheap :-)
Cheers
JF
Mmm Bit more.
He will proll tell you to stick a stage 3 dynojet kit on it!
Been there, easiest way...
Well I'm glad we're all singing off the same hymn sheet then :-)
Good job that the bloke who bought the last car off me runs a rolling road and a bike shop - setting up after the dynojet kit should be that bit more simple.
If youve got a dyno, and a drill or two you dont really need a dynojet kit either. Its just an easy starting point developed over time and many test bikes.
It depends if the kit price is cheaper than the 7 or 8 dyno hours it will take to get it right without providing he knows what hes doing.
With a kit fitted jetting is easier since all the circuits are "split" so idle, cruise, WOT at low rpm, WOT at high revs (slide fully lifted) etc are easier to identify. All because of an odd shaped needle. Say 2 or 3 hours to get perfect.
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