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John_D FSO wrote on 05/14/09 at 00:01:08:prechermike wrote on 05/13/09 at 18:55:30:John_D FSO wrote on 05/13/09 at 18:06:26:A lot of the mods are for ascetic (sp?) purposes, or comfort for the individual riders, I think. Like the above mentioned seat, or forward controls. The engine and other performance mods? From what I understand, Suzuki basically de-tunes the bike (such as making it run slightly lean) to more easily pass emissions standards with what is basically a 20 year old engine. If you take most automobiles, even the "high performance" ones, hardly any of them are running to peak efficiency from the factory. They have to run a balancing act between performance, and keeping the DEQ people happy. That being said, the only engine mod I've done is to pull the brass plug on the carb and rich it up a little. Seemed to help some. Still surges in the midrange, so I believe the white spacer mod fixes that? Still slightly intimidated by the carb. John, It has been said before, but the white spacer is a piece of cake. I did get one of those hand held impact drivers to get the four screws off of the top. You can do it, do go ahead. Thanks for the vote of confidence. May give it a whirl next weekend, unless the weather's nice, which of course means I'll be riding. I've seen it said to use #4 washers, sometimes #3. A couple questions: 1. which is correct, or will either work? 2. should they be stainless, or is corrosion not really a problem? I'll probably replace the top screws with stainless hex screws while it's apart, if the True Value has the right size. They have a great selection, so crossing my fingers. Oh, if I go with stainless screws, do they need antiseize, or is there no galling? Ok, enough questions, back to you regularly scheduled thread! The #4's require a bit of fiddling to fit, if I recall correctly. The #3's were drop in when I did mine. ACE Hardware had what I needed, though I've heard of folks going to hobby shops that sell AC airplanes, helicopters, etc., for the #3 washer. Definately go high quality. As a side note, take careful consideration of your before and after. I returned my carb to stock (except for the brass plug) after a couple of months; because the improvement was not worth the decreased fuel economy. At this point I got advice that I needed to rejet and open up the exhaust. Seemed a bit much for my particular needs and taste. Besides, I'm not much of a wrencher. After I put it back, many of the problems simply went away. Maybe I didn't have it broken in enough (it only had about 1500 miles on it), maybe it just needed to be shown a little love by taking it apart and putting it back together, I don't know. Still, I've got over 10,000 miles on it now, and we've settled in together just fine. Not saying don't do it. It's worth a try. YMMV. I just recommend not doing anything you can't undo, if you so desire.
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