Oldfeller--FSO
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Ah, Suzuki you little devil you .... EPA leaned on you and in response you set our bikes up to be super lean running critters to make the US gov'ment happy.
You traded off our long term engine life so you could sell an obsolete design in a super lean condition for what, 20 more years?
The engine fooled you though, it could take it.
ST, don't get mad -- all the lean/hot symptoms you saw are real and they exist in all of the stock Savage bikes all of the time. My spark plug looks like white death every time I looked at it and my exhaust valves still are always white on stem and tulip.
I spend a lot of time (and some money) to get back the 10% performance that Suzuki traded off to the EPA, and I got it all back and more at the cost of really poor gas mileage compared to the old stock engine/carb set up.
And ST, how could you / how should you know that the guts you took pictures of are normal enough looking guts? What crazy company would ever DO that to their product on purpose, and then to add insult to injury put a solid brass plug over the carb adjustment screw so you CAN'T rectify it?
Certainly no German company would do that ....
Ah, the Savage. Needs to be tweeked to run at full power and has to have special selected oil to live a full life. It isn't very fast nor is it very powerful for its displacement, but it has good torque and fits old creaky legged old men just fine.
That's why we loves it so ...
actually, we loves it for what it does up in the mountains where it is in its natural habitat. Can't go over 85 mph up in the mountains on even the longest straight away and the torque will blast you out of a corner faster than most all the bikes up there, save the crotch rockets which are GONE so fast you didn't even really notice them blow past you.
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