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Now repeat that with a lot more revs please.
Give it the berries m8. Wring its neck. Insert local idiom here.
Bull by the horns. What data logger did you use?
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Now repeat that with a lot more revs please.
Give it the berries m8. Wring its neck. Insert local idiom here.
This is what I practiced that first couple of times, pull to the line, load the clutch, half throttle off the line to see what it would do. Smiled because the rotor had enough momentum to turn the big tire.
Now to put it on the rev limiter and do the same thing but be on the pipe and stay there. It’s all clutch and not letting go of that last 10% too quickly. Repetition.
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I might be wrong about this - and Teazer would have a much better idea than me so I'd love to read his comments - but this start line plan seems to lack commitment. I'd be more inclined to ditch the limiter and use lots of revs to jerk it off the line quickly, and in one motion. If you're gonna finesse the clutch the race is already lost. It'll take some practice to get comfortable with it but it's the most critical part of the run. And if it won't let you release the clutch in one smooth motion with lots of revs - and I think it will - then maybe you should reduce the tire width until it will. Your thoughts Teazer?
...make a smooth release.
Forget about what Ricky G has to say. What I mean by that is that he has skills that you and I could only dream about and on top of that he is riding a 150-200hp bike and his skill is needed. With even stock big HP bikes, they make so much power that they can flip, so the rider must get just enough power to the ground and not much more.
With a lot less HP, we need thoretically need to come off the line at peak torque revs and never drop much below that. On a two stroke, peak torque is not much lower than peak HP revs, so we use a lot of revs. Yes we want to be smooth, but that doesn't mean slow. It means getting the clutch all teh way out and throttle wide open within a fraction of a second.
The value of a rev limiter is that the throttle can already be wide open before leaving the line, but it's another tool to learn how to use. I tried that on the Phat Trakka and for whatever reason, I never got to grips with it. I also had a situation with large first to second gap, so I had to overrev in first to stay in the powerband when it slotted into second, so my shift point was different in first than the other gears. That can all be managed with modern electronics which helps top riders to keep breaking records, but we are at the stone age end of that evolution and have to pick and choose which tools we want to learn how to use.
With simple bikes, I think the best approach is KISS and change one thing at a time. I would suggest that you get it running cleanly on the dyno and then do a lot of practice runs at the strip. When you are knee deep in records and totally consistent, that's the time to look at the toys.
I helped a friend build a drag race bike in the STOCK class and he is even slower than I am, so we have been going to the strip and doing lots of runs. I am the analog data logger. Time slips confirm things but listen to how the engine sounds in each gear. Then he gets feedback and encouragement and tries again until he gets it right. Then we changed jets and timing but it was really about practice, and by the time we left, he had cut half a second off his previous best 1/4 mile run.
In his case it would be nice to log revs and throttle position to show him what he's doing, but only until he is giving it everything it's got.
Keep going to the strip and keep the revs up - all the time. The more you practice, the more you are able to slow down things in your brain. For me, the first run of a weekend, always seems really freaky fast which it of course isn't and by the end of the weekend, the bike feels slower because I am more able to go faster as I start to process things faster.
Practice, practice, practice and take a spotter if possible who can tell you what is going on.
Lol I had premature evacuation.
I think we were running out of gas. What do y’all think?
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I love Bill's reaction.
Those runs were almost as bad as my last time at the strip where first off the kill microswitch stuck "closed" for almost a second and finally stuck closed so I also had that walk of shame. Followed by a series of equally horrible runs where components did not do as they were supposed to. That's why we do shakedown runs and we go when there's no one that knows us....
Your bike dies off the line as soon as the clutch is fully out and the load is too high. Looks like the clutch is engaging too fast and I suspect that the throttle isn't wide open at that point. Set up a simple TPS. all you need is a microswitch that is linked to the throttle or a second cable on the throttle (twin pull or splitter) so that at full throttle it makes a connection. That can be connected to a small battery and LED rear lamp so your team captain can watch and he gets to hit you with a long stick fr every time he sees it go out. It's analog and very basic, so feel to upgrade any part of that to actually log results.
The thing bogs pretty soon, and the revs should not drop like that. It could be loading up with unburned fuel or it could be that the clutch is out too far too soon.
John's observations about large reed cages make sense, but your motor should come off the line at 7000 or more and not drop until it goes into second gear so we should be at peak load off the line. My guess is too rich combined with too much clutch release too soon. I went back and watched the "clean out" video and it has a similar stutter but came off the line much cleaner in that earlier run. I don't like holding a motor at the red line for seconds at a time on the line and a launch rev limiter tends to cause excess fuel to build up in the cases which John mentioned.
Get the launch right first and then look at the other symptoms one at a time. MPS sells a pneumatic clucth lever that is easy to adjust and consistent. It's not cheap but may resolve one issue.