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I'm not much of a two stroke guy and being as this is a Honda Twins board I doubt many of you are familiar with big bore street 2 strokes.....but there are a few so I'll give it a shot.
I modified one of the carbs on my Suzuki T500 to accept a vacuum port (similar to what I did on the 450). The other carb already had a vacuum port that is used for the vacuum fuel petcock so I didn't have to mess with it. After it was done I attached my Morgan Carb Tune guage and started the bike. Given that it's a two stroke I suspected the vacuum readings would be lower but I was surprised that the guage rods hardly moved at all. I can rev it up slightly but the rods only show a slight reading as the motor is coming back to idle which takes a few seconds on the 2 stroke.
For those that might have some knowledge of 2 strokes and for those that might understand the theory on how these things work, do you think that what I'm seeing is normal?
I was able to kinda/sorta do a little adjusting and get it dialed in a little better than what it was but it was frustrating to do all the work to install the port and not have it work out.
I modified one of the carbs on my Suzuki T500 to accept a vacuum port (similar to what I did on the 450). The other carb already had a vacuum port that is used for the vacuum fuel petcock so I didn't have to mess with it. After it was done I attached my Morgan Carb Tune guage and started the bike. Given that it's a two stroke I suspected the vacuum readings would be lower but I was surprised that the guage rods hardly moved at all. I can rev it up slightly but the rods only show a slight reading as the motor is coming back to idle which takes a few seconds on the 2 stroke.
For those that might have some knowledge of 2 strokes and for those that might understand the theory on how these things work, do you think that what I'm seeing is normal?
I was able to kinda/sorta do a little adjusting and get it dialed in a little better than what it was but it was frustrating to do all the work to install the port and not have it work out.