WOW! I popped on the carb as it came out of the box (50 &170 jets), and this carb is AMAZING. My old carb was good at 65+ degrees, poor at 60 or below degrees (full choke for 20+ minutes and still not running right ), but this carb blows the old one right outta the water. I didn't need any choke, ready to ride immediately, significantly more torque and acceleration (butt dyno, but for real). I'm incredibly pleased for $36.

My throttle cable is still all just flopping around. The metal tube doesn't even touch the top of the carb, so there's like a quarter inch where it's just the braided cable exposed. It works for now ok though.

Thanks ThumperPaul for bringing me up to speed with all those tubes. I was nervous thinking about where they all hook up lol.

Is anyone surprised the 170 & 50 jets worked so well? Feels like everyone uses way smaller jets  Here's the details:

Bike: 2011 RYCA
Mods: pod filter, flow through exhaust, PWK38
Temp: 60F
Rider: 150lbs
Gas: 87 octane
Miles: about 10k

And the two on top can be routed up into your frame backbone just like the stock carb.  Again, just like ThumperPaul says.  It should look like this.

I would not epoxy your cable.  Just let it swivel.  If you epoxy the cable, you won’t be able to screw the top of the carb on & off.  I run a Barnett cable and it runs below the frame tube, like this.

Then it runs under the decomp solenoid und up through the forks just below the headlight.  Again. Same as the stock cable run.  I use a small adel clamp to support the cable and keep it off the head cover.  The clamp doesn’t grip the cable.  The cable is free to slide in & out of the clamp.  The clamp just supports the cable.

Note that there are five grooves in the slide needle.  Those grooves along with the e-clip provide fine adjustment for your mid-range mixture.  Placing the e-clip in the top groove will provide the leanest cruising mixture.  Placing the clip in the bottom groove will provide the richest cruising mixture.  The middle groove is a good place to start.

The e-clip is captured under the contraption that your throttle cable hooks into.  This shows the assembly with the e-clip in the richest position.  The special cable hook contraption is threaded into the slide.  Once installed, the e-clip and slide needle are captured.

As you can see, all the stuff is deep down inside the slide.  Hard to work in there.  There’s a little tab in the white nylon collar that has to go in the cable slot.  As I mentioned, a real juggling act.  Again, be careful, test it thoroughly, make sure the slide returns to the closed position.

Regarding your condition where the engine runs great with a #170/#55 jet combo, if it runs great with those jets there’s a good chance you have a whopper of an air leak, or some sort of other crazy situation.  Be careful with it.  It should fall flat on its face when you go WOT.  Try testing it with the main jet removed (don’t lose the brass washer above main jet).  Make sure it runs crappy at WOT.  If it still runs good with the main jet removed, you might have a needle and/or needle jet that control flow at WOT.  That’s no good.  The main jet must control fuel flow at WOT.  Pictures please.

Thanks for the detailed info! I'll have to wait until I get another hour of free time to open up that carb again (kids, work, etc). I have some pictures of the jets though.

First jet: