Keihin Carburetors Manual
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CARBURETORS This reference manual contains information on the various types of carburetors used on Kohler engines. Section 1 is a part number cross reference to assist you in selecting the proper replacement carburetor or carburetor kit. Tech How-To A good portion of modern four-stroke engine performance is due to the Keihin FCR carburetor. An accelerator pump and a high-tech slide supported by four wheels make the FCR a. Keihin FCR tuning manual Version 3.3 By Patrick Burns. With the carbs synched, the engine warmed up to operating temperature, and the idle speed set, adjust the. Piston valve carburetor Keihin for 2T and 4T engines. Can be use with 4T engine 1 cylinder 125-250cc. Good solution for motorcycle, atv, utv. Angle for carburetor installation on the engine 0-15 °. Angle 20 ” or more - engine work can be unstable. Measurements L-W-H: 82 x 95 x 167. External, mm - 38. Internal, mm - 35. These guidelines should be followed when installing carburetors and other Keihin products: To avoid injury, carburetors should be installed when the engine is cold. Read the owners manual for your vehicle before installing any Keihin product to prevent any damage to the vehicle due to improper installation.Keihin FCR tuning manualVersion 3.3 By Patrick Burns
Many thanks to Marc Salvisberg, founder of Factory Pro Tuning, for teaching me the finer points of using dynamometers and tuning carburetor equipped engines. I’m sure he still disagrees with some of what’s here (my dislike of changing float level, and even suggesting that one use a lambda sensor, for examples...), but this version of my FCR tuning manual is a lot better than the ones I wrote before I did my stint as a technician at Factory.Thank you, Marc.
After attending some AMA road races over the last few years as a dynamometer operator for Factory Pro Tuning and mechanic for Ricci Motorsports, and having the opportunity to talk with lots of racers, I’ve learned to my absolute horror and amazement that you people are actually *using* the information on this page to tune your race bikes. God help you all.
Someone asked me for info on using a Dynojet inertial dyno to tune a bike equipped with FCRs. Since I’m all too aware of the fact that most people don’t have access to a proper brake dynamometer and an exhaust gas analyzer, I put together an answer.
Before you do anything, MAKE SURE THE CARBS ARE CLEAN. Tear them completely apart (don’t forget to remove the idle mixture screws), blast everything with carb cleaner, and blow out all passages and jets with compressed air. If you neglect this critical step, don’t be surprised when, after fourteen jet changes, you find that a shred of fuel line or bits of rust from the gas tank (yes, even on YOUR bike, even with a fuel filter) had gotten lodged in some passage or another, causing the ’jetting’ problem you were trying to solve.
If you’re running a ram-air setup, and the carbs don’t sit inside the airbox, you’d better route the float bowl vents to the inside of the airbox or you’ll never in a million years get the thing working properly. If the ram-air works at all, as soon as the bike gets rolling along faster than a walking pace the mixture will go dead lean.
If you’re running a ram-air setup, and using gravity feed rather than a pump to move the fuel from the tank to the carbs, you’d better route the fuel tank vent to the inside of the airbox or you’ll wonder why it keeps sputtering at the end of long straights. 160 mph worth of air pressure in the float bowls and only ambient pressure in the tank will seriously slow down or even stop the fuel coming in from the tank, and the float bowls will run dry. You need to put airbox pressure into the tank to keep the fuel flow constant at various speeds.
And I’m not kidding about the float valve seat sizes. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the scoop. I didn’t come up with the chart. It’s straight from Keihin.
Keep in mind that you will spend much less time tuning the carburetion in following order:
1. Main fuel jet and main air jet (must be selected first since they feed the emulsion tube, which feeds the needle jet and jet needle).
2. Needle: a. root diameter b. taper c. clip position (which includes the L1 measurement)
3. Slow fuel and air jets.
4. Fuel screw
5. Accelerator pump (It helps to leave this disconnected during dyno testing so as not to create a momentary artificially rich condition which may lead to misleading exhaust gas analyzer readings. However, it’s surprisingly time consuming to remove or install the pump connecting rod. If I had all the time in the world and were doing development work, I’d disconnect it. If I were at all in a rush, I’d leave it connected and just hold the test point a little longer to let the EGA get a solid reading.)
You may find that if you change the taper of the needle a great amount, you may have to go back and reselect the main fuel and air jets since the tip of the needle can affect the full throttle mixture.
Synchronizing:
I’ve had pretty good luck synchronizing the carbs off the bike. Using the shank of a very small drill bit, adjust the idle speed screw until you can barely fit the base of the drill bit under one of the slides as you would a feeler gauge. You may have to remove the idle speed screw from the carbs and temporarily remove its locking spring to be able to thread the screw in far enough to slide a drill bit in unless you have some pretty small bits. Do this from the engine side of the slide as opposed to the intake side, and make sure the carbs are oriented such that the slides are moving vertically, so their weight takes up any slack in the throttle linkage. Remove the top of the carbs as you would to access the needles. On the throttle shaft in each carb there is an arm which controls slide movement. It is secured by a screw and nut. The nut is used for adjustments, the screw is to lock the adjusting nut in position. Loosen the lock screw of the slide you are trying to adjust, turn the adjusting nut to set the slide so the drill bit just scrapes under, and tighten the lock screw. Repeat for each slide. Be prepared to spend about five times as long as you think it should take, going back and forth between slides to get everything just right. Replace idle speed screw locking spring. Because the carbs must be disassembled to access the adjusting mechanisms, I recommend using the above procedure. You could use manometers to synchronize the carbs as you would a set of CVs, but you’d have to start and warm the bike, check vacuum levels, shut the bike off, disassemble the carbs, adjust, reassemble, restart the bike, and recheck vacuum levels. You may very well kill the battery (or your bump start helpers) before you finished synching the carbs this way. It has been my, and others’, experience that the lock screws tend to work loose with time no matter how surely you tighten them. To remedy this, after the slides are synchronized, clean the adjusters with brake or contact cleaner, blow them dry, and put a drop of silicone over their tops. You can also use Loctite 290, but it tends to make future adjustments a bit difficult. Once the bike is up and running, if manometers show that the synchronization is off by a considerable amount at idle speed, but even out as the throttle is opened, it’s entirely possible that the cylinders want different idle mixtures. This is not at all uncommon, especially on V-twin engines where the intake tracts are dissimilar such as Ducati 2 valve 750s and 900s. But you’d better go and check your valve clearances first to make sure a valve isn’t hanging open. If the vacuum levels are off and you’re working on a V engine of some sort, make sure you didn’t botch up the cam timing on one bank.
Fuel screw:
With the carbs synched, the engine warmed up to operating temperature, and the idle speed set, adjust the fuel screws so that when you rev the bike in neutral and release the throttle, the revs quickly drop to exactly idle speed again. If, when you release the throttle, the revs hang up a few hundred rpm above idle speed, then drop to idle, the idle mixture is probably a bit too lean. Turn the fuel screws out. Use a minimum of half turn increments until you know you’ve just about nailed it. You’ll drive yourself up the wall trying to tune the thing in eighth or quarter turn increments if you’re a mile off. In extremely lean cases the idle will hunt between the proper speed and something above it. If, when you release the throttle, the revs drop below idle speed then pick up, the idle mixture is probably a little bit too rich. Turn the fuel screws in. In extremely rich cases the engine will die after revving the bike and releasing the throttle, unless you’ve turned the idle speed screw way in, in which case it may act like the idle mixture is a little bit too lean. In slightly rich cases, the engine will respond well to throttle blips when cold, but will die or dip slightly below idle speed when hot. While having an exhaust gas analyzer is almost mandatory during tuning of main and needle circuits, do not rely totally on them to set idle mixture. Use an accurate tachometer (like your ear) and adjust the fuel screws to find the highest vacuum for each cylinder or highest idle speed, which will often be the same setting.
Slow fuel jet:
After setting the fuel screws, if you end up having to turn them in closer than 1 turn out from bottomed, select smaller slow jets. If you end up with the fuel screws turned out further than 2 turns from bottomed, select larger slow jets. Go back and repeat the fuel screw adjustment procedure. You have the correct slow jets when your engine passes the fuel screw adjustment procedure (settles to a steady idle after throttle blip) with a fuel screw setting between one and two turns out from lightly bottomed. A good way to see if the slow fuel jet is too large is to slowly turn the fuel screw closed and see if the bike still idles. If you get the fuel screw down to something like half a turn out, or closed, and that cylinder is still firing, the slow fuel jet is probably too big.
Slow air jet: Keihin Vb Carburetor Manual
With the correct slow fuel jets installed and the fuel screws adjusted as above, when you are operating the engine at higher revs and closed to 1/10th throttle (say, while transitioning from trailing to neutral throttle or running with no load at some mid rpm), if the mixture is too rich, use a larger slow air jet. If the mixture is too lean, use a smaller slow air jet. It is rather easy to confuse this circuit with the needle’s root diameter since they overlap quite a bit. If the needle’s root diameter is very far from perfect, you will be trying to make up for problems created by that instead of dialing in the slow speed circuit. Conversely, if the slow air jet is a mile out, you’ll have a hard job of selecting a needle root diameter. To help resolve problems with this, be conscious of the fact that the slow air jet will tend to have a more pronounced effect at lesser throttle openings, and the needle’s root diameter, very slightly greater.
I should point out here how the air jets and fuel jets interact. I can do this most easily with a little graph.
This graph is 100% a figment of my fevered imagination, and is only to be used as a general guide, not an absolute definitive end all be all word of truth. That said..
1. air jet way too small 2. air jet a little bit too small 3. air jet just right 4. air jet a little bit too big 5. air jet way too big
So basically what happens is if you have the mixture right at low rpm, and it’s too rich at high rpm, the air jet is too small and you need a bigger one. Or if you have it just right at high rpm and it’s too lean at low rpm, you have an air jet that’s too small and you need a bigger one. Or if you have the mixture just right at low rpm and it’s too lean at high rpm, the air jet is too big and you need a smaller one. Do I really need to type the fourth combination? When you put in a bigger air jet, it leans things out everywhere, but more at higher engine speeds. And when you put in a smaller air jet, it richens things up everywhere, but more at higher engine speeds. Then when you get the right air jet, it might be too rich or too lean everywhere, so now you have to go and put in a smaller or bigger fuel jet to fix things up again. So you control the shape of the graph with the air jet, and move it up and down with the fuel jet. The same thing is supposed to apply when working with the main air jet and main fuel jet, but it doesn’t on FCRs, for reasons which I’ll get into further down. But it’s supposed to, damn it.
Slow air screw:
Some FCRs are equipped with a slow speed air screw in place of the slow air jet. They rock. Buy some, from Sudco, because they rock. You need the screw plus a little locking spring. The part numbers are 012-230 for the screw, and 021-235 for the spring. It’ll probably cost about $60 after shipping to get four of each (um, I’m assuming you’re tuning a four cylinder there). Yeah, I know that’s a lot of money for four jets. But look at it like this, the jet and spring together cost something like $12. One slow air jet costs something like $4.50. If you think for one second that you’re going to get the right jet size on the first try, you’ve obviously never done this before. If you think you’re going to get it on the second try, you’re Merlyn Plumlee (Is Merlyn not the coolest name for a mechanic or what?). So just buy the adjustable jet and be done with it. Aside from not having to buy a bunch of different jets, it also allows much faster changes in calibration as you need only to turn a screw as opposed to changing a jet, and you can do it with the engine running in many installations, so you can _listen_ for the change in mixture. Some air filter adapters have a 4mm passage leading to the slow air jet, some a 6mm passage. If your carbs have slow air screws and the 4mm adapters, drill the adapters’ slow air passage to 6mm. This will allow you to access the air screw with a screwdriver big enough to actually turn it, but will leave a hole small enough that the jet can’t fall out and get sucked into the engine if it for some oddball reason works loose (that’s probably never happened in the history of the world, but it makes me feel better knowing it can’t). The following number of turns out are shown with the slow air jet size they are approximately equal to. Note that the change in jet number is not linear with the number of turns out. The screw adjusters are much more sensitive at lesser openings since the screw is still moving linearly at a constant distance per turn, but the flow area is changing more or less as a function of distance open, so half a turn out is two times as rich as one turn out, but one and a half turns out is only fifty percent leaner than one turn out. Or something like that. And don’t e-mail me to say look dude half a turn out is a 65 and one is a 100 and one and a half is a 125, go and find the area of the aperture of each one of those jets first then hit yourself over the head with the calculator. Like this even matters...
Number of turns out on air screw
Approximately equal to this slow air jet
1/4
45
3/8
55
1/2
65
5/8
75
3/4
85
7/8
95
1
100
1 1/8
110
1 1/4
120
1 1/2
125
1 3/4
130
2
135
2 1/4
140
2 1/2
145
2 3/4
150
3
155
Main fuel jet:
The proper main fuel jet will give best full throttle performance, but also affects mixture as far down as 1/8 throttle. I know you don’t believe this second part, because I didn’t believe it until I saw it happen while tuning an extensively instrumented test engine. Suspend your beliefs about the main fuel jet only affecting mixture when the slide is all the way up & the needle is all the way out of the needle jet and think for a minute. The main fuel and air jets feed the emulsion tube which feeds the needle jet and jet needle. When a more fuel rich emulsion is bled past the same restriction (needle jet area minus jet needle area), the engine gets more fuel. You must select the full throttle jetting first. If you go and find a needle that works with the wrong main jets, it won’t work with the right ones, and you’ll have to go through the needle selection process all over again when the main jets are correct. Trust me.
Main air jet:
If you find that the engine runs perfectly at WOT near the torque peak, but becomes lean toward redline, select smaller main air jets. Conversely, if the engine runs perfectly near the torque peak but richens toward redline, select larger main air jets. Changes in air jets may require changing the main fuel jet. Say you have good performance at engine speeds leading to the torque peak under wide open throttle with a 150 main fuel jet and 200 main air jet. Should you need to richen the mixture at full revs and full throttle and select a 180 main air jet, you may need to go down to a 145 or 140 main fuel jet to keep the lower rpm mixture the same as with the 150/200 combination. Generally (there are always exceptions), once the main air jets are properly selected for the intended application, they need not be changed again unless you change the intake restriction (modify the airbox or use different filter) or change engine or exhaust specification. Varying atmospheric conditions can usually be dealt with by fuel jet, fuel screw, and needle changes.
The part that really sucks about FCR carburetors is that they come with primary type emulsion tubes as opposed to the bleed type emulsion tubes every other four stroke carb in the whole universe ever used. What this means, essentially, is that the above paragraph doesn’t actually have any connection to reality. It has been my experience that if you for whatever reason have something like a 200 main air jet in the carbs, and the mixture goes lean at high rpm, and you manage to get the mixture sorted out by putting in different (smaller) main air jets and main fuel jets, then the carbon monoxide numbers might be really pretty and even from mid rpm through redline, BUT THE ENGINE ISN’T MAKING AS MUCH POWER AS IT DID WITH THE BIG MAIN AIR JETS. I think this has something to do with a bigger air jet allowing the fuel coming up through the needle jet to get emulsified more before going up into the venturi, therefore allowing better atomization, and more complete burning of the fuel supplied into the cylinder, since lots of little bitty fuel droplets have more surface area per unit of volume and burn more completely, as opposed to a few big fuel droplets having less surface area per unit volume and not only burning less completely, but because they burn less completely you need to have more of them to burn the oxygen available, which means the CO and hydrocarbon numbers go up because lots of unburned fuel is hanging around throughout the combustion process, soaking up heat and getting pumped out the e
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CARBURETORS This reference manual contains information on the various types of carburetors used on Kohler engines. Section 1 is a part number cross reference to assist you in selecting the proper replacement carburetor or carburetor kit. Tech How-To A good portion of modern four-stroke engine performance is due to the Keihin FCR carburetor. An accelerator pump and a high-tech slide supported by four wheels make the FCR a. Keihin FCR tuning manual Version 3.3 By Patrick Burns. With the carbs synched, the engine warmed up to operating temperature, and the idle speed set, adjust the. Piston valve carburetor Keihin for 2T and 4T engines. Can be use with 4T engine 1 cylinder 125-250cc. Good solution for motorcycle, atv, utv. Angle for carburetor installation on the engine 0-15 °. Angle 20 ” or more - engine work can be unstable. Measurements L-W-H: 82 x 95 x 167. External, mm - 38. Internal, mm - 35. These guidelines should be followed when installing carburetors and other Keihin products: To avoid injury, carburetors should be installed when the engine is cold. Read the owners manual for your vehicle before installing any Keihin product to prevent any damage to the vehicle due to improper installation.Keihin FCR tuning manualVersion 3.3 By Patrick Burns
Many thanks to Marc Salvisberg, founder of Factory Pro Tuning, for teaching me the finer points of using dynamometers and tuning carburetor equipped engines. I’m sure he still disagrees with some of what’s here (my dislike of changing float level, and even suggesting that one use a lambda sensor, for examples...), but this version of my FCR tuning manual is a lot better than the ones I wrote before I did my stint as a technician at Factory.Thank you, Marc.
After attending some AMA road races over the last few years as a dynamometer operator for Factory Pro Tuning and mechanic for Ricci Motorsports, and having the opportunity to talk with lots of racers, I’ve learned to my absolute horror and amazement that you people are actually *using* the information on this page to tune your race bikes. God help you all.
Someone asked me for info on using a Dynojet inertial dyno to tune a bike equipped with FCRs. Since I’m all too aware of the fact that most people don’t have access to a proper brake dynamometer and an exhaust gas analyzer, I put together an answer.
Before you do anything, MAKE SURE THE CARBS ARE CLEAN. Tear them completely apart (don’t forget to remove the idle mixture screws), blast everything with carb cleaner, and blow out all passages and jets with compressed air. If you neglect this critical step, don’t be surprised when, after fourteen jet changes, you find that a shred of fuel line or bits of rust from the gas tank (yes, even on YOUR bike, even with a fuel filter) had gotten lodged in some passage or another, causing the ’jetting’ problem you were trying to solve.
If you’re running a ram-air setup, and the carbs don’t sit inside the airbox, you’d better route the float bowl vents to the inside of the airbox or you’ll never in a million years get the thing working properly. If the ram-air works at all, as soon as the bike gets rolling along faster than a walking pace the mixture will go dead lean.
If you’re running a ram-air setup, and using gravity feed rather than a pump to move the fuel from the tank to the carbs, you’d better route the fuel tank vent to the inside of the airbox or you’ll wonder why it keeps sputtering at the end of long straights. 160 mph worth of air pressure in the float bowls and only ambient pressure in the tank will seriously slow down or even stop the fuel coming in from the tank, and the float bowls will run dry. You need to put airbox pressure into the tank to keep the fuel flow constant at various speeds.
And I’m not kidding about the float valve seat sizes. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the scoop. I didn’t come up with the chart. It’s straight from Keihin.
Keep in mind that you will spend much less time tuning the carburetion in following order:
1. Main fuel jet and main air jet (must be selected first since they feed the emulsion tube, which feeds the needle jet and jet needle).
2. Needle: a. root diameter b. taper c. clip position (which includes the L1 measurement)
3. Slow fuel and air jets.
4. Fuel screw
5. Accelerator pump (It helps to leave this disconnected during dyno testing so as not to create a momentary artificially rich condition which may lead to misleading exhaust gas analyzer readings. However, it’s surprisingly time consuming to remove or install the pump connecting rod. If I had all the time in the world and were doing development work, I’d disconnect it. If I were at all in a rush, I’d leave it connected and just hold the test point a little longer to let the EGA get a solid reading.)
You may find that if you change the taper of the needle a great amount, you may have to go back and reselect the main fuel and air jets since the tip of the needle can affect the full throttle mixture.
Synchronizing:
I’ve had pretty good luck synchronizing the carbs off the bike. Using the shank of a very small drill bit, adjust the idle speed screw until you can barely fit the base of the drill bit under one of the slides as you would a feeler gauge. You may have to remove the idle speed screw from the carbs and temporarily remove its locking spring to be able to thread the screw in far enough to slide a drill bit in unless you have some pretty small bits. Do this from the engine side of the slide as opposed to the intake side, and make sure the carbs are oriented such that the slides are moving vertically, so their weight takes up any slack in the throttle linkage. Remove the top of the carbs as you would to access the needles. On the throttle shaft in each carb there is an arm which controls slide movement. It is secured by a screw and nut. The nut is used for adjustments, the screw is to lock the adjusting nut in position. Loosen the lock screw of the slide you are trying to adjust, turn the adjusting nut to set the slide so the drill bit just scrapes under, and tighten the lock screw. Repeat for each slide. Be prepared to spend about five times as long as you think it should take, going back and forth between slides to get everything just right. Replace idle speed screw locking spring. Because the carbs must be disassembled to access the adjusting mechanisms, I recommend using the above procedure. You could use manometers to synchronize the carbs as you would a set of CVs, but you’d have to start and warm the bike, check vacuum levels, shut the bike off, disassemble the carbs, adjust, reassemble, restart the bike, and recheck vacuum levels. You may very well kill the battery (or your bump start helpers) before you finished synching the carbs this way. It has been my, and others’, experience that the lock screws tend to work loose with time no matter how surely you tighten them. To remedy this, after the slides are synchronized, clean the adjusters with brake or contact cleaner, blow them dry, and put a drop of silicone over their tops. You can also use Loctite 290, but it tends to make future adjustments a bit difficult. Once the bike is up and running, if manometers show that the synchronization is off by a considerable amount at idle speed, but even out as the throttle is opened, it’s entirely possible that the cylinders want different idle mixtures. This is not at all uncommon, especially on V-twin engines where the intake tracts are dissimilar such as Ducati 2 valve 750s and 900s. But you’d better go and check your valve clearances first to make sure a valve isn’t hanging open. If the vacuum levels are off and you’re working on a V engine of some sort, make sure you didn’t botch up the cam timing on one bank.
Fuel screw:
With the carbs synched, the engine warmed up to operating temperature, and the idle speed set, adjust the fuel screws so that when you rev the bike in neutral and release the throttle, the revs quickly drop to exactly idle speed again. If, when you release the throttle, the revs hang up a few hundred rpm above idle speed, then drop to idle, the idle mixture is probably a bit too lean. Turn the fuel screws out. Use a minimum of half turn increments until you know you’ve just about nailed it. You’ll drive yourself up the wall trying to tune the thing in eighth or quarter turn increments if you’re a mile off. In extremely lean cases the idle will hunt between the proper speed and something above it. If, when you release the throttle, the revs drop below idle speed then pick up, the idle mixture is probably a little bit too rich. Turn the fuel screws in. In extremely rich cases the engine will die after revving the bike and releasing the throttle, unless you’ve turned the idle speed screw way in, in which case it may act like the idle mixture is a little bit too lean. In slightly rich cases, the engine will respond well to throttle blips when cold, but will die or dip slightly below idle speed when hot. While having an exhaust gas analyzer is almost mandatory during tuning of main and needle circuits, do not rely totally on them to set idle mixture. Use an accurate tachometer (like your ear) and adjust the fuel screws to find the highest vacuum for each cylinder or highest idle speed, which will often be the same setting.
Slow fuel jet:
After setting the fuel screws, if you end up having to turn them in closer than 1 turn out from bottomed, select smaller slow jets. If you end up with the fuel screws turned out further than 2 turns from bottomed, select larger slow jets. Go back and repeat the fuel screw adjustment procedure. You have the correct slow jets when your engine passes the fuel screw adjustment procedure (settles to a steady idle after throttle blip) with a fuel screw setting between one and two turns out from lightly bottomed. A good way to see if the slow fuel jet is too large is to slowly turn the fuel screw closed and see if the bike still idles. If you get the fuel screw down to something like half a turn out, or closed, and that cylinder is still firing, the slow fuel jet is probably too big.
Slow air jet: Keihin Vb Carburetor Manual
With the correct slow fuel jets installed and the fuel screws adjusted as above, when you are operating the engine at higher revs and closed to 1/10th throttle (say, while transitioning from trailing to neutral throttle or running with no load at some mid rpm), if the mixture is too rich, use a larger slow air jet. If the mixture is too lean, use a smaller slow air jet. It is rather easy to confuse this circuit with the needle’s root diameter since they overlap quite a bit. If the needle’s root diameter is very far from perfect, you will be trying to make up for problems created by that instead of dialing in the slow speed circuit. Conversely, if the slow air jet is a mile out, you’ll have a hard job of selecting a needle root diameter. To help resolve problems with this, be conscious of the fact that the slow air jet will tend to have a more pronounced effect at lesser throttle openings, and the needle’s root diameter, very slightly greater.
I should point out here how the air jets and fuel jets interact. I can do this most easily with a little graph.
This graph is 100% a figment of my fevered imagination, and is only to be used as a general guide, not an absolute definitive end all be all word of truth. That said..
1. air jet way too small 2. air jet a little bit too small 3. air jet just right 4. air jet a little bit too big 5. air jet way too big
So basically what happens is if you have the mixture right at low rpm, and it’s too rich at high rpm, the air jet is too small and you need a bigger one. Or if you have it just right at high rpm and it’s too lean at low rpm, you have an air jet that’s too small and you need a bigger one. Or if you have the mixture just right at low rpm and it’s too lean at high rpm, the air jet is too big and you need a smaller one. Do I really need to type the fourth combination? When you put in a bigger air jet, it leans things out everywhere, but more at higher engine speeds. And when you put in a smaller air jet, it richens things up everywhere, but more at higher engine speeds. Then when you get the right air jet, it might be too rich or too lean everywhere, so now you have to go and put in a smaller or bigger fuel jet to fix things up again. So you control the shape of the graph with the air jet, and move it up and down with the fuel jet. The same thing is supposed to apply when working with the main air jet and main fuel jet, but it doesn’t on FCRs, for reasons which I’ll get into further down. But it’s supposed to, damn it.
Slow air screw:
Some FCRs are equipped with a slow speed air screw in place of the slow air jet. They rock. Buy some, from Sudco, because they rock. You need the screw plus a little locking spring. The part numbers are 012-230 for the screw, and 021-235 for the spring. It’ll probably cost about $60 after shipping to get four of each (um, I’m assuming you’re tuning a four cylinder there). Yeah, I know that’s a lot of money for four jets. But look at it like this, the jet and spring together cost something like $12. One slow air jet costs something like $4.50. If you think for one second that you’re going to get the right jet size on the first try, you’ve obviously never done this before. If you think you’re going to get it on the second try, you’re Merlyn Plumlee (Is Merlyn not the coolest name for a mechanic or what?). So just buy the adjustable jet and be done with it. Aside from not having to buy a bunch of different jets, it also allows much faster changes in calibration as you need only to turn a screw as opposed to changing a jet, and you can do it with the engine running in many installations, so you can _listen_ for the change in mixture. Some air filter adapters have a 4mm passage leading to the slow air jet, some a 6mm passage. If your carbs have slow air screws and the 4mm adapters, drill the adapters’ slow air passage to 6mm. This will allow you to access the air screw with a screwdriver big enough to actually turn it, but will leave a hole small enough that the jet can’t fall out and get sucked into the engine if it for some oddball reason works loose (that’s probably never happened in the history of the world, but it makes me feel better knowing it can’t). The following number of turns out are shown with the slow air jet size they are approximately equal to. Note that the change in jet number is not linear with the number of turns out. The screw adjusters are much more sensitive at lesser openings since the screw is still moving linearly at a constant distance per turn, but the flow area is changing more or less as a function of distance open, so half a turn out is two times as rich as one turn out, but one and a half turns out is only fifty percent leaner than one turn out. Or something like that. And don’t e-mail me to say look dude half a turn out is a 65 and one is a 100 and one and a half is a 125, go and find the area of the aperture of each one of those jets first then hit yourself over the head with the calculator. Like this even matters...
Number of turns out on air screw
Approximately equal to this slow air jet
1/4
45
3/8
55
1/2
65
5/8
75
3/4
85
7/8
95
1
100
1 1/8
110
1 1/4
120
1 1/2
125
1 3/4
130
2
135
2 1/4
140
2 1/2
145
2 3/4
150
3
155
Main fuel jet:
The proper main fuel jet will give best full throttle performance, but also affects mixture as far down as 1/8 throttle. I know you don’t believe this second part, because I didn’t believe it until I saw it happen while tuning an extensively instrumented test engine. Suspend your beliefs about the main fuel jet only affecting mixture when the slide is all the way up & the needle is all the way out of the needle jet and think for a minute. The main fuel and air jets feed the emulsion tube which feeds the needle jet and jet needle. When a more fuel rich emulsion is bled past the same restriction (needle jet area minus jet needle area), the engine gets more fuel. You must select the full throttle jetting first. If you go and find a needle that works with the wrong main jets, it won’t work with the right ones, and you’ll have to go through the needle selection process all over again when the main jets are correct. Trust me.
Main air jet:
If you find that the engine runs perfectly at WOT near the torque peak, but becomes lean toward redline, select smaller main air jets. Conversely, if the engine runs perfectly near the torque peak but richens toward redline, select larger main air jets. Changes in air jets may require changing the main fuel jet. Say you have good performance at engine speeds leading to the torque peak under wide open throttle with a 150 main fuel jet and 200 main air jet. Should you need to richen the mixture at full revs and full throttle and select a 180 main air jet, you may need to go down to a 145 or 140 main fuel jet to keep the lower rpm mixture the same as with the 150/200 combination. Generally (there are always exceptions), once the main air jets are properly selected for the intended application, they need not be changed again unless you change the intake restriction (modify the airbox or use different filter) or change engine or exhaust specification. Varying atmospheric conditions can usually be dealt with by fuel jet, fuel screw, and needle changes.
The part that really sucks about FCR carburetors is that they come with primary type emulsion tubes as opposed to the bleed type emulsion tubes every other four stroke carb in the whole universe ever used. What this means, essentially, is that the above paragraph doesn’t actually have any connection to reality. It has been my experience that if you for whatever reason have something like a 200 main air jet in the carbs, and the mixture goes lean at high rpm, and you manage to get the mixture sorted out by putting in different (smaller) main air jets and main fuel jets, then the carbon monoxide numbers might be really pretty and even from mid rpm through redline, BUT THE ENGINE ISN’T MAKING AS MUCH POWER AS IT DID WITH THE BIG MAIN AIR JETS. I think this has something to do with a bigger air jet allowing the fuel coming up through the needle jet to get emulsified more before going up into the venturi, therefore allowing better atomization, and more complete burning of the fuel supplied into the cylinder, since lots of little bitty fuel droplets have more surface area per unit of volume and burn more completely, as opposed to a few big fuel droplets having less surface area per unit volume and not only burning less completely, but because they burn less completely you need to have more of them to burn the oxygen available, which means the CO and hydrocarbon numbers go up because lots of unburned fuel is hanging around throughout the combustion process, soaking up heat and getting pumped out the e
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