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Can someone explain the extra "hardware" on the underside of these carbs.
Once again, just curious.
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Looks to me like some attempt to 'equalize' manifold lengths with different length velocity stacks.

I think he plumbed these to make sure that no gas would leak from the overflow tubes...

Someone made a kit like that several years ago. Brian Weis has one on his silver Z.

Thanks, Rick.
Hopefully Brian will chime in and give us the definitive answer.

I think you are thinking of the Dial-a-Jet system. They installed something like the photo shown, but I don't think that's what these are.

Dave

I saw something very similar to this setup on a Honda Magna V65 (1100cc) V4, which was also a fast-in-a-straight-line only bike. Don't know about the CBX in this sort of venue but the Mag was a freaking rocket. I mean wheelies out of 4th gear if you were crazy enough.

They took fuel directly from the bowls to the intake venturis in the same way--even had little needle screws to set the flow dynamically. With modded gas I gather that this is a workable solution to getting more fuel in there than nature would have it.

I'd hazard a guess that the standpipes are clipped off at the nub.

Thanks for the input, Jack.
Something along the lines of the carbs being "sprayed " with gas instead of the manifolds with nitrous?
It does look like an adjustment screw in the bottom of the cartridge.

Well they could also be linear temporal distortion compensators.

You see, when traveling at a very high speed the front of the carburetors arrive long enough before the rear end of the carbs that we have to inject gas into the future, or else they'll never have gotten there in the first place. It's complicated.

uh-oh...methinks somebody left the lid off the carb dip at Jacks' shop.
Those fumes are nasty!