Carb injectors?
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Carb injectors?
Can someone explain the extra "hardware" on the underside of these carbs.
Once again, just curious.
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Re: Carb injectors?
Looks to me like some attempt to 'equalize' manifold lengths with different length velocity stacks.
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Re: Carb injectors?
I think he plumbed these to make sure that no gas would leak from the overflow tubes...
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Re: Carb injectors?
Someone made a kit like that several years ago. Brian Weis has one on his silver Z.
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Either garage is too small or we have too many bikes. Or Momma's car needs to go outside.
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Re: Carb injectors?
Thanks, Rick.
Hopefully Brian will chime in and give us the definitive answer.
Hopefully Brian will chime in and give us the definitive answer.
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Re: Carb injectors?
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.
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Re: Carb injectors?
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.
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.
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Re: Carb injectors?
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.
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.
Re: Carb injectors?
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.
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.
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Re: Carb injectors?
uh-oh...methinks somebody left the lid off the carb dip at Jacks' shop.
Those fumes are nasty!
Those fumes are nasty!