MOPED ARMY

Sweet!

Lookin' good dude!

Show off the rest of that machine!

Justin

Ok, just a sneak preview.

i've known a few different people who cut and rewelded their silencers like you did (different angles on each of them, though) none of them ever had a bracket for the silencer, none of them ever broke off. you are fine just the way it is.

it's looking good man. have you tuned that variator at all?

Cool, thanks dean, good to know i'm safe with the clean look, I like the clean look.

Check out my vespa performance variator thread for details, but basically I packed the weights to the max with lead, got to 7.3gr, and was still not variating all the way with the stock spring. I'm still waiting for treats to get heavier ones in. I need some slightly heavier ones to continue packing in increments, and maybe some heavy heavy ones to drill out.

Now that I've got the estoril on it's a bit better at the top end, and sure gets there quicker. Hopefully once the baffle cone is removed it will pull past the peak and I won't need heavier to run with the stock spring, but I want to go to the yellow eventually for different shift rpm/range combo and better belt tension. Really starting to feel the need for the planned case work, and if that does not do it, heavier weights should.

It's frosty out and I took next week off cause I have too much PTO (yay!), so I am debating taking the motor apart. Then again, My 88 montero is sitting there with a big hole under the hood and a freshly re-built engine on a stand in front of it.

According to a couple radar-signs on my way to work and back my ever-trusty is about 7-10mph optimistic. It happilly bobs about 40+ on flat and promptly pegs at 50 on a slight decline.

So, in reality, on a flat, it tears ass to 35 then just tops out past the peak and stays there, feeling like it could give more. It is actually only about as fast as it was before the variator with the polini pipe, but I never have to pedal anymore, and can maintain 20-25 on steep hills, and actually start up them too!

I am hoping for solid 40s with good low-mid range after case/crank work and the variator is properly tuned.

"ever trusty _speedo_", i knew I was missing a word up there somewhere.

Also, add baffle cone removal and eventually malossi 9:1 gearing to the top-speed mods.

Hi Nikos, Thanks!

Yes, it is beneficial to get the most out of a bigger carb like the 13.13. You will need to take apart your engine and split the case, and might as well port match it to your cylinder and cut the crank a bit while you're at it.

You can open it up to 13mm, but DO NOT drill all the way through to the inside! You have to leave enough wall on the square port inside to seal to the crank shaft weight. My instructions say 18mm maximum on a vespa, but it may be a bit off on a kinetic so you have to be careful. You can also open up the port window a little in each direction, and smooth out the corners in the throat of the passage.

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