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hi hope someone can help i have a standard vespa t5 with pm tuning pipe on and every time i put in 4th it drops from 50mph to about 45mph and just wont go any faster i have a 112 main jet if it help, it flys through all the other gears no problem but its just 4th where it bogs hope some one can help cheers .

Best way to cure it is bin it and get a sitoplus/standard exhaust lol, seriously PM are terrible on t5's never seem to get into powerband which seems the problem you're having?

Dilan is this turbo terrys old t5 what happened to his old exhaust this scooter was quiet fast for a standard.i would put a sito plus like the man says

he dident have standard exhaust on it its was a sterling one but i couldent fit my spare wheel on with it but it did the same with that on.c

Sounds the same as every malossi 210 engine ive had.

Lots of threads on the subject it appears a common issue

just stick a standard or sito plus on it. its not getting "on the pipe" in 4th. a lad at work has just bought a mint T5 millenium (and i mean mint, 500 mile job) and he wants to change the exhaust. ive asked him whats wrong with the original....."it just looks like a black box".........and there lies the problem, people go for looks over go go power. if you had a little black box that sucked as well as it blowed, and cost you nowt, you"d keep the fucka, no matter what it looked like!

hahaha well u cant even see this pipe so its not a matter of looks over power my old sterling looked better.

dilan wrote:hi hope someone can help i have a standard vespa t5 with pm tuning pipe on and every time i put in 4th it drops from 50mph to about 45mph and just wont go any faster i have a 112 main jet if it help, it flys through all the other gears no problem but its just 4th where it bogs hope some one can help cheers .

When I had my T5 I bought a PM pipe for it and what a complete waste of money that was. The only way to get to pull in 4th was to rev its tits of in 3rd and maybe with a backwind and down hill I could get it to pull 4th. Ditched the pipe put a 172 kit on it and a sito plus and never looked back

malossi 172cc, decent cylider head, and the standard exhaust, before fitting any flash pipe.

A mate of mine has a similar problem with his T5. He put a shiney stainless right hand sterling on but it will not get on the power in 4th. I had several T5's in years gone by and tried the famous mickeck and leovinci and had the same issues with them unless a kit was fitted.
Does anyone know what a Simonini is like on a T5? Same problem or does it pull better?