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Got the ubiquitous DG expansions for my RD350 today...as common as they are they sound beautiful for $225. I was a little bit depressed when the instructions basically said that the K&N pods pretty much won't work with them but I'll do a good week of tuning before I give up. At the moment its only strugglin at half throttle so I'll take on the challenge. Full on build thread will come this winter
Hopefully you start at the same time as me so I can get some ideas and more easily coerce you into making 2 custom parts instead of 1 Can't wait to see your build up. The biggest problem I am foreseeing with my project is deciding how to hide a relatively large oil bottle because I do not want to premix. I'm hoping a tank that's a couple inches deep sitting in the rectangular gap between the frame rails under the seat could hold a quart. I'd love to build one into the gas tank but that's already small enough for a 40mpg bike
You can get away with a pretty small bottle for the oil feed. I was thinking about using a whiskey flask for my GT500 project. :-D
Your bike looks great with the front end lowered. Did you just push the forks up through the top triple clamp, or did you mess with the internals as well?
I have DG's on my RD400. You can still run a pod filter, but It would probably be better with the K&N Y-Boot style as opposed to individual pods. I just got a UNI filter for my 400 and left the stock airbox to maintain air volume.
I have DG's on my RD400. You can still run a pod filter, but It would probably be better with the K&N Y-Boot style as opposed to individual pods. I just got a UNI filter for my 400 and left the stock airbox to maintain air volume.
Edit: For clarification stock setup was 140 mains, 25 pilots
Gotcha, I'm pretty dead set on the pods because they look so clean. When I put the pods on with the stock exhaust I put the needle at clip 4, 30's for pilots, and 160 for mains because I like to error on the rich side. It had a very slight hesitation off idle.
Once I put the pipes on I ramped up the mains to 220's and kept the needle where it was. Still had the very slight hesitation off idle(as expected) and at about 1/4 to 1/2 throttle while accelerating slowly it dogged out for a split second. When I would get on the throttle hard it worked perfectly.
About an hour ago I bumped the pilots up to 35's mostly because of the slight hesitation it still had off idle but it definitely lessened the issue while accelerating slowly and overall it works pretty well. It's still has a slight blip but since it's only at slow acceleration I'm assuming I just don't have enough air velocity through the carb. To make it better I think I could just put some tape over a portion of the air filters?(sounds right in my mind) But I'm happy with how it works at the moment so I'll stick with my current setup.
bbillington said:
You can get away with a pretty small bottle for the oil feed. I was thinking about using a whiskey flask for my GT500 project. :-D
Your bike looks great with the front end lowered. Did you just push the forks up through the top triple clamp, or did you mess with the internals as well?
Just pushed the forks up through the clamps about 1.25". No fiddling with the internals, the forks are in need of new oil but I haven't got there yet. Ideally I would put the forks back into stock position and get a longer rectangular-tube swingarm with longer rear shocks to keep the small rake. But that sounds like a bit of money. Also have to modify my front fender and get that back on to balance it out a bit. It's amazing how much I change while telling myself I just want a ride-able bike until winter comes.
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Can't wait to see your build up. The biggest problem I am foreseeing with my project is deciding how to hide a relatively large oil bottle because I do not want to premix. I'm hoping a tank that's a couple inches deep sitting in the rectangular gap between the frame rails under the seat could hold a quart. I'd love to build one into the gas tank but that's already small enough for a 40mpg bike
