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Dan's Solex type 32 PICB trial and review and dft comparison
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<blockquote data-quote="joedrum" data-source="post: 151107" data-attributes="member: 98"><p>well i get a huge surge of accelleration from the dft secondary ....and dans right the dft is a user unfriendly car carb ...took a lot to tame the idle circut on my bike ...seems the advantages of the single carbs over stock is the vucume slides ...1000s and 1100s are metal and quite heavy ....loosing all instant response ....seems all later carbs produced were a downgrade in carburation and could not be adjusted ...making them look bad compared to FI systems ...sheesh early fuel injection was a joke also...ive found if one sticks to a carb and stays at it ..you can overcome the flaws in design and adjustments left off ....heat is the big popular fix for he idle circuts of no adjustments ...i have found it better to get them dialed in better to beat the rich idle as opposed to use heat ....i gotten to know my carb ..the biggest dft 32-34 that i can really keep the carb in the sweet spot ... once that happens there is no contest to the better overall system on a oldwing ...the whole idea that carb is to far away on a smaal oldwing motor is not very sound thinking to me ...the whole set up is small ..the whole idea that the carburation is even on all 4 cylinders and instantanious just kills the stock set up from the get go ....on mine power and reliability ....really nice thread to read</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joedrum, post: 151107, member: 98"] well i get a huge surge of accelleration from the dft secondary ....and dans right the dft is a user unfriendly car carb ...took a lot to tame the idle circut on my bike ...seems the advantages of the single carbs over stock is the vucume slides ...1000s and 1100s are metal and quite heavy ....loosing all instant response ....seems all later carbs produced were a downgrade in carburation and could not be adjusted ...making them look bad compared to FI systems ...sheesh early fuel injection was a joke also...ive found if one sticks to a carb and stays at it ..you can overcome the flaws in design and adjustments left off ....heat is the big popular fix for he idle circuts of no adjustments ...i have found it better to get them dialed in better to beat the rich idle as opposed to use heat ....i gotten to know my carb ..the biggest dft 32-34 that i can really keep the carb in the sweet spot ... once that happens there is no contest to the better overall system on a oldwing ...the whole idea that carb is to far away on a smaal oldwing motor is not very sound thinking to me ...the whole set up is small ..the whole idea that the carburation is even on all 4 cylinders and instantanious just kills the stock set up from the get go ....on mine power and reliability ....really nice thread to read [/QUOTE]
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