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Engine warm up time?
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try a little richer if u like, u can always go back.
dont be afraid to experiment. just remember where u started(how many turns out the fuel/air screws are, from lightly seated.). the key is to be able to cruise at , say 3000/4000/5000rpm in first smoothly. if it will do that, then the fuel ratio is good.
after u find the sweet spot, sync the carbs.
i need the choke to get mine stated,then turn it off, and put the cruise control on at a high idle,while i suite up. then away i go with no choke.
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'78 KZ1075 LTD
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76 KZ, frame gusset work,1200CC.Ported by Larry Cavanaugh, 1.5mm.over intakes, Carron Pipe, ZRX12 rear end, and seat,96zx9 front end.
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mark1122 wrote: i do have flats. no problems hear, and i live in snow country. :lol:
I meant the o.p. mark. And yours don't run leaner in the cold morning air?
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proving once again that age and treachery is better than youth and enthusiasm
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I have a oil pressure gauge on the right side of my motor that reads up to 15 psi. When I first start the bike the reading goes up to the needle stop of 15 psi kinda like a extra tach. As I rev the motor to keep it running clean the oil pressure rises with the rpm. After a few minutes the oil pressure drops to about 3 psi. Thats when I know its truely warmed up and ready for some real fun. I cant speak about the carb settings anymore as I only have one bolted to the turbocharger, but the oil gauge predates the turbo and I love knowing what the motor is doing as oil pressure drops to normal after the warm up discribed above
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I always though that the best way to warm an engine was to run it. Not put under load with choke of course but just run it. I've been doing what I described above since the late 60s with cars and bikes. Cars back then had manual chokes - a knob you pulled out from the dash - and once we got a car engine going we did pretty much the same.... kept going with the choke until you could reduce it and finally shut it off altogether. Most chokes are really just high idle for the last i/4 or so of lever travel. Then came fuel injection on cars or "automatic choke" and today we turn them on , maybe give a couple of seconds to get the oil pressure up and just go. most people turn em on and go and let the computer take care of the rest. Should we wait ?
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