I got my Carbtune while I was out last week. I'll admit that I was worried I wasted my money after reading an article that said if your bike idled ok, you were already in sync or probably close (pg 66 of October 2006 issue of classic bike mag). Before I left last week, I determined I had no continuity between the yellow wires to my stator coil. I was about to change it out with another one but when I looked at it, one of the yellow wires was completely disconnected. I cleaned up all the connectors and had about 15 volts at 4000 rpms.
I took a ride and found I was still running rich. I had a big flat spot at about 1/4 throttle. I was hoping the charging problem somehow had something to do with it. Not so. So I dropped all the needles to the lowest position and went for another ride. The bike ran much better. I could feel just a hint of hesitiation still at times but the plugs stayed clean (At least 1 and 4, I held off checking the other two.
Now for the sync. My bike idled great before; rock steady at about 1200 rpm. But look at the carbtune pictures, only two of them were even. I did the best I could getting them close, they go kind of haywire if you aren't real careful. Took another ride and had no hesitation at all. The bike runs great but I'm not getting my hopes up yet until I ride it further.
And on that note, I love the carbtune. I'm going to do my other 350 tomorrow. I did not like the nylon adapters though. You'll get third degree burns trying to get them in 2 and 3. I planned on that and picked up a set of brass ones when I bought it. I actually used nylon ones on 1,4 and brass on 2 and 3.
