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Never done any business with these fella's but this looks like a pretty good deal on a "large valve engine" with a nice chrome CVT cover........Shrug....!

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Anyone ever done business with this vendor?


Peace, Shan

I was at one of our local Hardware Stores today and decided to look at some different things that might make a nice compact but useful catch container for the PCV Vent.

The 1 1/2" 90* PVC elbow fitting I picked is threaded inside at one end and has the glue & press in on the other, the reason I picked this type of elbow was so that the threaded end can be unscrewed so the container can be cleaned out if needed at some point, I will drill & Tap each cap so that the PVC 1/4 X 1/4 barbed fittings can be screwed into each end, I will also build a mounting bracket that will be attached to the container out of a piece of Aluminium strap, I do believe this elbow will make a nice compact effective catch can for the PCV (Positive Crankcase Ventilation) on my scoot, it will get a good coat of Krylon Fusion Gloss Black paint also, just to dress it up a bit....

I will get more pics up as soon as I have the chance to get this done.

let me know what you think about it fella's

Peace, Shan

Here's a link to a short vid I just made and uploaded to youtube, that will give anyone wishing to know what it sounds like a an example, and like I said on this vid. it does sound better live than it does on the cell phone video, but it still sounds pretty good IMO....



Peace, Shan

The 4 valve head kit, 59mm BBK, and 30mm carb. & intake upgrade, will likely be the route I go, I ride in very rough dusty dirty conditions and EFI or the turbo would not likely hold up well to these conditions, plus I ride 25-40 miles at times and am looking for better performance but also as much reliabilty as possible too, so I will be looking into doing those upgrades maybe as a winter project if all goes well and I get my new work shop finished.

I did get my new exhaust on today as well as my UNI Filter and just those two things made a very noticable difference, NO more sputter at high RPM's either so the rich condition is gone now but i need to make sure that I'm not actually too lean now, scoot is running real nice but it is so HOT here right now I dont think it would matter how rich the mixer was it would likely overheat, it's 105 in the shade right now and very dry so it could show to be OK for now but when it cools down in a couple months I may be way lean.... time will tell and I will do a plug check to confirm what I have now.

Peace

My scooter is very dirty right now, just wanted to share a pic of the exhaust after I finally got it on today.

I ordered this pipe/muffler from kingstarscooters on ebay for $115, it sounds real nice and along with the UNI Filter has made a very noticable power increase, this thing however was a royal pain in the backside to get on my scoot, I think it must be designed for the Ruckus or something else besides a Roketa MC-74-150 Hunter style scoot, I had to cut 2 brackets off and rebend the pipe before it would even come close to fitting, if I didn't have the tools and the know how to do this, this buy would have been a big wreck, I did booger up the chrome pipe a bit getting it rebent, but thats OK because it is hardly noticable & I plan to make a custom pipe later on myself anyway.

It sounds nice, I need to check my spark plug and see if it is running too lean though, I have a #115 jet in it now and I have a #120 that I can put in if needed, it pulls so much better and a very noticable increase in low end torque on take off, it may be a bit loud for anyone looking for quite mellow sound, but I like rumbling throaty exhaust so it's great for my taste.

I need to up my roller weight though, 7500RPM's @ approx. 52MPH @ 12g. roller weight equiv. I will give 13g a try and see where that gets me.

Will be getting myself a catch can put together real soon also, tired of the oil splattering a few drops at a time from my vent filter when I run at 7500RPM's for a few miles.

Peace, Shan

Yeah Man, sprocket

I've looked seriously at that head at scrappydogscooters.com he sells that same set up for $199.00, he also sells a Big Valve custom ported head that kinda caught my eye as well, I was thinking either of these with the 59mm BBK & maybe the 30mm carb and alum. intake might offer a nice performance increase, might be a good set up for the 846 belt and some 14-16g sliders or rollers.

might end up being a good winter time project.......!

Peace, Shan

Alley...,

When I just slightly back off the throttle when it sputters it settles right down and runs without a hitch, it only sputters/cuts out a WOT at above 7200RPM's and doesn't do it immediately it will run at that RPM for a short spell and then the jolting cutting out will happen, at that point like I said I can just back off the throttle a bit and it runs smooth as silk.

I believe you and cruiser both hit the nail right on the head when you told me it sounds like a rich condition, your description of what that will cause is exactly what my engine is doing.....

I'm gonna pull my spark plug and check it's color also, if it's fairly dark, this will be another indication of it being to rich also, I ordered the #115 jet from scrappydogscooters actually wanting a smaller one but his sizes take a big jump from what he calls "standard " to #115 then #125 & #135, I knew the 125 & 135 would be way big for a stock engine so I just went with the 115 hoping it wouldn't also be to big, I also have a #120 that I ordered from Steve @ monsterGY6 but I'm not gonna mess with it at first when I put the Uni Filter and the New Shorty Exhaust on, it could be that the #115 will work just fine with my near future set up and if it is just slightly small I will likey try to drill the jet to a size between the 115 & 120 and work with it until I get that nice light chocolate brown plug color and good throttle response.

I'm really hoping to get back the lost top end speed I have lost by creating enough power to get me back to the 60MPH flat out cruise speed, so far most of what I've done to my scoot has hurt my top end, when I got this scoot it would cruise easy at 60-62mph on the flat with no head wind or incline, now I have the orange CDI, the orange Coil, 12g equivilent roller weight, a gates 842 belt and the "performance" variator the scrappy dog sells, all of this has increase my lower end slightly and for sure helped keep the Rpm's and power up on the hills but I have lost around 8-10mph cruise speed, I weigh 198lbs so I'm not a heavy weight but not a light weight either and my weight is the same as it was when my scoot would run me 60-62mph on the flat.

I'm loooking to move my variator roller weight up to the 12.5g - 13g area and stiill have hill pulling power and maybe also get my cruising speed back to at least 58-60mph without having to turn 7500+RPM's to do it.

I know increase air flow through an engine with good compression and correct timing will add HP and torque so I'm hoping the UNI and the better exhaust will make at least a slight improvemnet that will help recover some of the top end I lost, my scoot came with 16 or 17g rollers and had a sluggish bottom end, I changed to sliders @15g and and lost top end and gain almost nothing at the bottom, still was sluggish IMO, I went with three10g rollers and three 14g rollers and my bottom end really came alive but at 12g equivilent weight I took a pretty big hit on my top end speed, I'm trying to find that happy medium where I will still have good bottom end without as big of a top end sacrifice.

Sorry for the long post hear, just wanted to explain what I've done to this point, what my results have been and what I'm hoping to achieve.

Thanks Alley.....

Peace, Shan