So I glassed up my waterbox, changed my cooling routing around. Two into mani, one head outlet to pisser, other to bottom of headpipe, top of headpipe to stinger with straight end of tee going to stinger with a fcv, and right end to a cold fusion adjustable pisser so I can get enough pressure to my head pipe.
Spent a couple days messing with my b pipe screws and finally got it very snappy for bottom/midrange power. This is all being done on a small flat water Lake, pretty much just me on the lake. Spent a couple hours constantly hitting my wake over and over again, and it was perfect. No bog or loading up, extremely snappy and was just how I wanted it to be.
Was happy with my tuning so I decided to start working on stabs, etc. Note:I lm only running one bilge pump right now.
Ski would get a little water in the carbs but would clear out and get snappy pretty shortly after. Now onto where it's really noticeable :
Launched it where I usually do most of my riding. Lots of huge boat wakes, etc. After I did a big stab and went under, I definitely had a bilge full and you can tell when a little water gets in the carbs and it takes a little bit to clear out, but this time it was different. This feeling is extremely similar to bad plug wires or cavitation due to a little bit of clogged weeds in your intake. Right after your bilge pump stops pumping and you peg it, it feels like water in your carb/bad plug wires and it just isn't snappy until you peg it for a few seconds and then blip it out a few times and it gets significantly better. However, there was a time earlier today that it still just wasn't snappy and had that same feeling when climbing up the face of a wave. It wouldn't get any better and I took it to the pier, popped the hood, inspected everything, pulled off fuse cover and it was dry inside. Checked plug wires, let it be for like 1/2 hour and then buttoned it all back up and went out. After about 5 minutes of hitting my own wake, it finally started running perfectly again.
Whenever I do stabs off of boat wakes it's like inevitable for a little bit of water to get splashed in the carbs so it takes a quick peg run, then a couple blips for it to be snappy again. This I find to be not all that weird especially since I'm running a single bilge right now, and even with a modded hood a deep/inverted stab takes in water..
But seriously, why after getting wet inside of the engine bay, my ski ran crappy and didn't have much snap at all? When hitting a boat wake it just felt really funny, and I'm not positive what it is but it's a feeling like water in carb/plug wires/cavitating but it didn't go away that one time. Coil is a season old ocd one so I know it's not that, but it's weird because it ran close to perfect for the last hour I was riding it and chasing boat wakes.
Sorry for the book, but I'm just a little confused on what's going on with my ski, because sometimes it's something normal and sometimes I know it's doing something it shouldn't.
Having to do A little bit of clearing up and blipping is normal after a trick since water and combustion don't really mix.. But how long should that take to clear up?
All of these scenarios produce the same kind of feeling I'm talking about like bad plug wires/water ingestion/cavitation. IMO they all feel similar to me, since it's not like a bog or hesitation, it's more of it just doesn't have the snap and all the power it should have.
This never happened when I was constantly just hitting my own wake the other day, keeping rpms up, etc. And it ran perfect for the last part of my ride even though I was doing similar stuff.
I don't know exactly how to explain it and I apologize if I'm talking in circles. I know it's not just water getting splashed in the carbs all the time, but it's a similar feeling, but very intermittent.
It's just confusing and there's so many different variables.. Carb/motor is freshly rebuilt and it rips hard when it's running perfect.. When it's running good, if you hold it like mikuni says for 1/4 throttle and like 30 seconds, then peg it, there's no bog/hesitation
EDIT: Is it possible that after more impacts/sudden movements/weird angles that my needle leaks excess fuel, possibly due to incorrect popoff pressure? It's a brand new needle & seat but I replaced the spring with what's recommended from factory pipe...I never tested the popoff. I'm running stock flame arrestor with one screen, which was what jetmaniac recommended in his b pipe jet/spring kit.
Any help is highly appreciated..
Spent a couple days messing with my b pipe screws and finally got it very snappy for bottom/midrange power. This is all being done on a small flat water Lake, pretty much just me on the lake. Spent a couple hours constantly hitting my wake over and over again, and it was perfect. No bog or loading up, extremely snappy and was just how I wanted it to be.
Was happy with my tuning so I decided to start working on stabs, etc. Note:I lm only running one bilge pump right now.
Ski would get a little water in the carbs but would clear out and get snappy pretty shortly after. Now onto where it's really noticeable :
Launched it where I usually do most of my riding. Lots of huge boat wakes, etc. After I did a big stab and went under, I definitely had a bilge full and you can tell when a little water gets in the carbs and it takes a little bit to clear out, but this time it was different. This feeling is extremely similar to bad plug wires or cavitation due to a little bit of clogged weeds in your intake. Right after your bilge pump stops pumping and you peg it, it feels like water in your carb/bad plug wires and it just isn't snappy until you peg it for a few seconds and then blip it out a few times and it gets significantly better. However, there was a time earlier today that it still just wasn't snappy and had that same feeling when climbing up the face of a wave. It wouldn't get any better and I took it to the pier, popped the hood, inspected everything, pulled off fuse cover and it was dry inside. Checked plug wires, let it be for like 1/2 hour and then buttoned it all back up and went out. After about 5 minutes of hitting my own wake, it finally started running perfectly again.
Whenever I do stabs off of boat wakes it's like inevitable for a little bit of water to get splashed in the carbs so it takes a quick peg run, then a couple blips for it to be snappy again. This I find to be not all that weird especially since I'm running a single bilge right now, and even with a modded hood a deep/inverted stab takes in water..
But seriously, why after getting wet inside of the engine bay, my ski ran crappy and didn't have much snap at all? When hitting a boat wake it just felt really funny, and I'm not positive what it is but it's a feeling like water in carb/plug wires/cavitating but it didn't go away that one time. Coil is a season old ocd one so I know it's not that, but it's weird because it ran close to perfect for the last hour I was riding it and chasing boat wakes.
Sorry for the book, but I'm just a little confused on what's going on with my ski, because sometimes it's something normal and sometimes I know it's doing something it shouldn't.
Having to do A little bit of clearing up and blipping is normal after a trick since water and combustion don't really mix.. But how long should that take to clear up?
All of these scenarios produce the same kind of feeling I'm talking about like bad plug wires/water ingestion/cavitation. IMO they all feel similar to me, since it's not like a bog or hesitation, it's more of it just doesn't have the snap and all the power it should have.
This never happened when I was constantly just hitting my own wake the other day, keeping rpms up, etc. And it ran perfect for the last part of my ride even though I was doing similar stuff.
I don't know exactly how to explain it and I apologize if I'm talking in circles. I know it's not just water getting splashed in the carbs all the time, but it's a similar feeling, but very intermittent.
It's just confusing and there's so many different variables.. Carb/motor is freshly rebuilt and it rips hard when it's running perfect.. When it's running good, if you hold it like mikuni says for 1/4 throttle and like 30 seconds, then peg it, there's no bog/hesitation
EDIT: Is it possible that after more impacts/sudden movements/weird angles that my needle leaks excess fuel, possibly due to incorrect popoff pressure? It's a brand new needle & seat but I replaced the spring with what's recommended from factory pipe...I never tested the popoff. I'm running stock flame arrestor with one screen, which was what jetmaniac recommended in his b pipe jet/spring kit.
Any help is highly appreciated..
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