so remember how i said i was working on stuffing a 24mm mikuni carb into my ciao frame? well i pretty much gave up on that idea.
thanks to tony s., i was able to bust out a super nice intake plate to get the carb bolted up to the motor without much trouble.
problem is, there is no room for the carb in the frame!
i would have to loose the pedals all together and chop a huge chunk out of my frame to make it fit in there, and i’m not about to do either of those things.
there might still be a 24mm carb in the future for ciaociao, but it will be a smaller carb that will fit in the bike easier. no need to cut up the frame for a mikuni when there’s other, smaller carbs that will get the job done just as well!
polini cup 5 post coming soon! with pictures!
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It’s a shame that the Mikuni won’t fit, from what I have heard the Mikunis make great moped carbs once you tune them right. Would a smaller Mikuni fit or possibly a Keihin(sp?)? Would a different intake arrangement work?
Comment by Arran November 9, 2009 @ 6:22 pmFrom seeing what else you had to do just to fit what you had already have, adding anything other then stock to a Ciao is like trying to stuff 10 pounds of manure into a five pound bag. To think that I though Moby’s were bad for clearance.
a carb with a smaller body would fit better for sure, i just gotta figure out what carb i want to run and make it work!
Comment by terrydean November 10, 2009 @ 12:06 pm