30mm mikuni performance feedback!
anyone got any info on how a 30mm mikuni carb performs in comparison to a 28 or 30mm del on a mugello 186 kit?
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Dazza
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Dumped my 30mm PHBH for a 30mm TM Mikuni - I bought from scooterotica and had advice from Dan on initial jetting and it worked straight away out of the box - a bit of fettling and it was as a lot smoother than the dellorto at low speeds and through the gears - it is a thirsty carb but not much worse than the Dellorto.
A 30mm Mikuni may be a bit ott for the 186 though - maybe consider a 24mm?
A 30mm Mikuni may be a bit ott for the 186 though - maybe consider a 24mm?
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My tzr has Mikuni carbs fitted as standard.
If anyone knows how I could convert it to take amals I would be delighted if they would let me know.
I have used Dellortos and Amals on small frames, both in my opinion are better than Mikunis.
I find them easyer to set up and the parts are so much cheaper and easyer to obtain.
The only points going for Mikunis are that they are light weight and when fitted to the bikes they are designed for they work reasonably well.
The problem with Mikunis, is that each type of carb is designed for a particular bike and not as a stand alone product, although many now use Mikunis I see this only as the latest fashion, like Lectron carbs where a fashion during the late 80`s.
If anyone knows how I could convert it to take amals I would be delighted if they would let me know.
I have used Dellortos and Amals on small frames, both in my opinion are better than Mikunis.
I find them easyer to set up and the parts are so much cheaper and easyer to obtain.
The only points going for Mikunis are that they are light weight and when fitted to the bikes they are designed for they work reasonably well.
The problem with Mikunis, is that each type of carb is designed for a particular bike and not as a stand alone product, although many now use Mikunis I see this only as the latest fashion, like Lectron carbs where a fashion during the late 80`s.
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soosh
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Couldnt agree more steve.On my iron barrel,ive had Mikuni,PWK,Dellorto and the best all round is the ols PHBH28. So many compare a new Mikuni to the old Dellorto they have which was probably 2nd hand anyway.I brought a brand new PHBH28 and it was so much more clean and responsive than the old exact same carb.The PWK produced 2hp more at 6000rpm than the dellorto but you do have to fuk around with drilling out the float valve and had trouble with it overflowing,ive now got a VHST28 Dellorto but that still needed the float adjusting.The PHBH28 is now on my Parmakit smallframe and it staying on it as its spot on.The good thing aswel with Dellortos is that you can change the float needle valve as scooters do seem to need bigger main jets than a lot of LC bikes which is what the PWK`s are for.The Mikuni i had was fine but not a real performance advantage over the PHBH anyway and may aswel just not brought it.