I ordered a Lectron for my 300 from Motosportz, and I am supposed to get it Thursday afternoon. I am going to run the Sandlapper National Enduro on Sunday, March 2nd, and was wondering if that was enough time to get it installed and dialed in. I was hoping to draw on past experiences and knowledge from anyone that has purchased a Lectron. Do they require much tinkering, or are they ready to go out of the box?
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
250-500cc Ready or Not?
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Usually bolt on and go. Only internal adjustment is the rod and it is EZ and set and forget. Then there is a PJ setting that is external which dials the top end. Read the setup stuff thats all over this forum so you understand the tuning criteria. You should have little to no problem, we have these pretty dialed. All bikes are different so some slight tweaking might be in order but should be very close as is.
Long_Stroke
Husqvarna
AA Class
My own experience was good. Took a little time and fiddling. I was also dealing with the un-shortened version and it worked, but sent it back to Lectron and they cut it down for me. Motosportz didn't have the throttle cables at the time and I modified my cable to work with the Mikuni elbow at the top of the carb. That entailed cutting half to one inch of cable housing from the grip end to get the cable into the slide.... I wouldn't suggest that. I think the carbs come better set up now than when I got mine.
Tuning is easy but give yourself time to ride a little. I have the 36mm on a WR300 and the adjustable power jet is only open about half a turn. I ride in Utah, 4500 - 9000 feet. I lost track of my needle adjustments and should have been writing them down as I worked but I did end up going leaner than it came. Maybe half a turn?
Starts a lot easier and runs cleaner. I'm not a high-rev type rider and my mpg didn't change much, but I was getting better than most with the Mikuni. Maybe 65-70 miles on a tank riding mountains/desert trails.
Keep the flat side of the needle toward the engine, and take out your exhaust plug!
Tuning is easy but give yourself time to ride a little. I have the 36mm on a WR300 and the adjustable power jet is only open about half a turn. I ride in Utah, 4500 - 9000 feet. I lost track of my needle adjustments and should have been writing them down as I worked but I did end up going leaner than it came. Maybe half a turn?
Starts a lot easier and runs cleaner. I'm not a high-rev type rider and my mpg didn't change much, but I was getting better than most with the Mikuni. Maybe 65-70 miles on a tank riding mountains/desert trails.
Keep the flat side of the needle toward the engine, and take out your exhaust plug!
these are setup slightly on the rich side for safety. 1/2 turn out on the PJ is usually about right it seems. They come at 1 turn out (richer). The rod is also usually a little rich.
juicypips
Husqvarna
Pro Class
i think if your in the same country stick it in and off you go, it took me 40 mins to install mine as i had to fettle the cable mounts, and solder the old one to the new one minus the lock washer, i used lock tight to seal this up.
i only had to 1/4 lean it out an shes better now than when i bought the bike 3 years ago.
keep us posted
i only had to 1/4 lean it out an shes better now than when i bought the bike 3 years ago.
keep us posted