New carbs mean easy starting that's for sure. On the original Keihins it can take up to a minute (yes one minute!) to start the engine on the solo starter. I reckon it was 5 or six seconds with the new Keihins installed. It sounds better too, fuller more even noise less crackly but more snappy.
There's just one thing I'm not so happy about - Number One pot is smoking whereas the others aren't. Now this could be due to the fact that there was almost certainly a bit of a fuelling problem to that pot with the old carbs and so it could be assembly oil burning off that was already burnt off in the other three cylinders. However, I noticed that when I revved the engine and killed it, No. 1 carb was smoking heavily out backwards too. Again I suppose it could be assembly oil but could it be anything else - what do you HiPo gurus think? I seem to remember from my Honda twin racing days that one pot always always smoked more and think it was #1 but I can't remember.
The engine when not under load revs very very freely. It "idles" at about 5,500 rpm which seems a bit high even for a race motor to me but maybe I'm being too precious with it? I might see if I can adjust the slides to drop them down a bit and close them off. It revs super fast round to 10,000. I've got the rev limit set at 12,000 right now but might drop it back a bit for safety sake - any opinions on that guys?
So, two weeks from now and I have a track session booked to run it in. I've opted to drop back into the novice group anticipating all the niggles I'm going to have on the first track outing but hope to have everything dialled in by the end of the day and be having some fun!
