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Originally Posted by wswartzwel
Was his name John? Tacoma? If so you may need to run Nitromethane in it 
Lots of controllers you can use....as well as some spoofers... if you are decent with electronics, there are plans to make a spoofer that plugs into the air temp sensor that will richen it up a bit at low rpm. Another trick is to bump up the voltage on the TPS. Make sure the brass air screws are not dirty.. if so it will stumble and lurch coming off idle.
If it is Johns bike, I would start by putting the stock air intake back on it. |
It is, indeed, John's bike from Tacoma, sold to me by Bob Birch, another AMA racer who owned it for a little over a year before his 75-yo knees and hip gave out on him. I haven't dug far enough into the guts to see what he had on it for an intake, although I can see a non-stock air screen of some kind under the oil-cooler air inlet. I'm not really that gifted electronically, so I'm going to be looking at plug-and-play solutions if I can (and if the wiring mods John did to it allow me -- he was definitely a do-it-yourselfer). It runs very rough at idle, but once it's warmed up, it goes OK -- just needs a little extra throttle on starting up from a light. If I can find the parts at a reasonable price, I'm going to try to get it back as close to stock as I can. Bob didn't have any of the original parts, so I'm starting from scratch here, but it looks like most things are available online. I'll have to see how it goes, a little at a time.