The Performance Tuning section has been a little dry as of recently. This and Peter's sick motobecane should help to spice things up a bit.
So here ya go.
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Just finished building the test engine to see if it would work or not.
Right now it's just a polini a crank and CDI there is no clutch and no drive shaft. I wanted to see the thing run before worrying about the details. And Run it dose! Good throttle response ( I am assuming that some of that is due to the large amount of rotating mass that is not connected to the engine at the moment) and no air leaks on the hose connecting the carb to the intake or from the block off plate on the polini.
Looks like I am bringing a polini to Seattle again. I do not think that there is enough time to get this case opened up to accept the 80 Metra and get it tuned right before next week. Gives me more time to work on the rigid, something tells me I will need to work on my brakes...
I'll post some high quality photos when I am getting the engine ready to go on the bike.