Moped Army

Corrections:

The Poloni High Airflow Performace Air Filter actually did fit perfectly on my stock carb. It was the O-Ring Clamp that came with it that would not tighten enough to keep the box on tight. I used my stock O-Ring Clamp and now it's fine.

Once I switched from the stock air box to the Poloni after upjetting, I lost some performance. So I thought that maybe the Poloni wasn't as high-flow as it was supposed to be. It is built with 3 air holes, so I drileld two more. I also did a couple of other things in the process, so when I went for a ride and performance was worse, I wasn't sure what to blame it on. So I went home and drilled 2 more holes in the box. The bike idled fine, but I had no power. So then I went ahead and taped up all of my drilled holes, plus one of the originals (probably taking it back to stock box airflow levels) and performace and top speed were right back up.

The bike runs perfectly now at top speeds of 31/32mph on flats. I no longer have to pedal or push and swerve while trying to balance when accelerating from a stop.

Most rapid acceleration is in the midrange. It takes a little while to get up to max speed.

I have a long Moby seat on it right now, which is way to big for the bike, but so comfortable I can't take it off; The new shocks I put on are twice the wieght of the stock ones; my new pedals are probably heavier than the originals; and the Sito pipe is definitely heavier than the original -- so I've added a lot of weight to the bike. I guess I could knock a bunch of it off.. but I'm not racing this thing, and I like everything I've added, so it's worth the 1mph I might be losing because of it.

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Now that I know I have extra air available at the intake side, maybe next I'll see if I can continue to upjet and see what I can squeeze out of this Sito. Even though I'm perfectly happy with 31/32mph top speeds, now I'm kind of curious.

:M