SoCal00Husky
Husqvarna
The short of it, I suspect I'm not getting what I should out of the engine. Before I go any farther, I thought I would poll other owners of this old single cam first, maybe I'm looking for whats not there. Everyone else I know has the lighter kicker version or a much newer dual cam so its just not as relevant.
I'm an avid rider, lots of experience across all different type of 2 wheeled machines and own many. I just picked this bike up (dirt and supermoto setup) and while it seems to start easy without the choke, runs well, on 15/45 gearing it boogies up to 100mph, I just can't shake the feeling that its missing torque. On my first dirt run with it, I noticed the front end seems unusually planted, sometimes diving face first over things even though I was loading it up and powering over to launch off stuff. Maybe some of that was the supermoto suspension setup. I chalked it up to weight and just enjoyed my day. Now with the Supermoto setup it is just missing any hooligan factor, forget any throttle wheelies, even clutching up the front in 1st gear is miserably difficult. It has an aftermarket 2 into one pipe, carb jets appear stock, needle enriched a little, valves all check out gap wise, timing chain makes no noise, usual airbox mods. I've tuned the mixture well, and like I said the bike feels smooth but missing the oomph I though it would have. My 88 Yamaha XT350 would snap throttle wheelies in 2nd all day, my old XT550 would power throttle the front up in 1st/2nd pretty regularly - both were old heavy bikes, in street legal trim, geared for a 90mph top speed. I haven't checked the compression yet (my adapter is missing), nor have I checked the cam to crank timing alignment (maybe its off a tooth).
Reference:
My Bikes Jetting:
AtomizerAB264
Needle K32
Needle Position 2nd
Main Jet180
Pilot Jet58
Choke jet50
Gearing 15/46 (and 16/45 but seems too tall)
I have 2 different speedo gears for 21" vs 17" front wheel calibrated correctly, going to a 14T front seems short to me.
It's difficult to asses these things over the internet. For arguments sake, lets just assume everyone knows how to ride hard, pop wheelies, yadda yadda, and just look for common repeatable methods to compare with to help me figure this out. Thoughts?
I'm an avid rider, lots of experience across all different type of 2 wheeled machines and own many. I just picked this bike up (dirt and supermoto setup) and while it seems to start easy without the choke, runs well, on 15/45 gearing it boogies up to 100mph, I just can't shake the feeling that its missing torque. On my first dirt run with it, I noticed the front end seems unusually planted, sometimes diving face first over things even though I was loading it up and powering over to launch off stuff. Maybe some of that was the supermoto suspension setup. I chalked it up to weight and just enjoyed my day. Now with the Supermoto setup it is just missing any hooligan factor, forget any throttle wheelies, even clutching up the front in 1st gear is miserably difficult. It has an aftermarket 2 into one pipe, carb jets appear stock, needle enriched a little, valves all check out gap wise, timing chain makes no noise, usual airbox mods. I've tuned the mixture well, and like I said the bike feels smooth but missing the oomph I though it would have. My 88 Yamaha XT350 would snap throttle wheelies in 2nd all day, my old XT550 would power throttle the front up in 1st/2nd pretty regularly - both were old heavy bikes, in street legal trim, geared for a 90mph top speed. I haven't checked the compression yet (my adapter is missing), nor have I checked the cam to crank timing alignment (maybe its off a tooth).
Reference:
My Bikes Jetting:
AtomizerAB264
Needle K32
Needle Position 2nd
Main Jet180
Pilot Jet58
Choke jet50
Gearing 15/46 (and 16/45 but seems too tall)
I have 2 different speedo gears for 21" vs 17" front wheel calibrated correctly, going to a 14T front seems short to me.
It's difficult to asses these things over the internet. For arguments sake, lets just assume everyone knows how to ride hard, pop wheelies, yadda yadda, and just look for common repeatable methods to compare with to help me figure this out. Thoughts?
That doesn't sound right at all. I can't seem to find a spec anyware for what it should be, guessing 140 psi would be more ballpark, can anyone confirm?
