Has anyone installed a Mikuni VM36 or TM36 carburetor on their bike yet? Did it improve performance and the deceleration popping?

The VM36mm is only around $100.00 new. But I don't know what main jet or pilot jet to use or just leave that alone? The VM series has a easy swap main jet port on the float bowl.

Anyone??

I am running a TM36 on Cafe ala Carte'

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At the time I couldn't find anyone on the forum that was running a standard TM (with no pumper).

I tuned it with a digital air/ fuel mixture gauge.  Went through a boat load of jets, needles, and slides until I got it dialed in the way I wanted it.  Now the jetting is very nice.  Definitely still has the closed throttle pop.  If you ever run with a fast response air/ fuel gauge you  will understand why it pops.  close the throttle quickly at much speed at all and the mixture goes way lean.

As far as performance I agree with Dave on all he said on the VM.  The TM is just the next generation slightly higher performance carb and will increase the low throttle opening response.  This has built in what the UFO does for the VM.

I second what Dave said.  I bought my TM for $65 brand new from a MC dealer on Ebay that had a customer order it and then not want it.  In the end I sunk way more into it than it was worth but I wrote it off as a serious education in jetting.  I finally bought an A/F gage and then ran over 29 jetting runs on the street.  I went through 3 slides ($45 each x 2) several needle jets (4x$15),  4 needles (3x $6.50), hand full of mains, and pilots along with I played with choke (enrichener) jets, and air jets in the bell mouth.  Oh and add $150 for the AFI gage

I got a hell of an education and I got very good at changing jets!

I followed Mikuni's guidance of marking the throttle at each 1/8 opening of the slide.  When they say another circuit comes on at x/8 opening they aren't kidding.  They are correct that every circuit will affect others but they do dominate their throttle range.  It is amazing how fast you can go from way lean in one range to way rich in the next and all we are talking are 1/8 throttle open changes.  I don't think anyone has a carb truly jetted well just by the seat of the pants or sound.  Not if you are starting from the ground up like I was.

Also you won't believe what a difference air temp can make to your A/F numbers unless you run a gage.  Mine was digital which is the worst thing you can give an engineer....too much precision in the measuring instrument and you are turning knobs on a stone age machine (carburator).  You can only get it so good but it is amazing how good you can get it when all the right jets and slide come together.

Narrow band sensors are not that accurate. It's probably good enough though for a stock carb. You won't get near the accuracy of FI with this dinosaur carb.