Yo savages,

Where are y'all gettin them mikuni jets these days? Specifically for a VM36. Interested in messing with my tuning based on some community feedback.

Appreciate y'all

Thanks Paul I appreciate this write up. In a week or so I'll tear the carb down again to check gaskets/ jets. I'm running slightly lean and have no faith in the Murray's carb set up.

Thanks for the clarification/correction, Lancer.  I hope I didn’t misquote you and my apologies if I did.  

Just to add further clarification, I did a side-by-side comparison in an Excel spreadsheet of all the carb components of Your’s vs Murray’s Carbs build of the VM36 (jets, air bleeds, jet needle, needle jet, float valve, etc), and the only differences were 27.5/165 Murray and 20/200 Lancer.

Philly - when you get into your carb, let us know what you find (specifically the clip position).

Murray said he did dyno tuning to select the 165 main.  I’m wondering about that because Woody ran really well with the 200 main.  I never ran Woody with the 165, so I can’t compare.  But that’s the way the prior owner ran the bike and so have you.  Interested to hear how your tuning goes and comparison.

EDIT: I had to make sure I hadn’t completely lost my mind.  Here’s a link to the post about jetting from the Tech Section.  This is where I saw the 2nd groove comment.  In your main post about the VM36 kit, you mention middle groove.

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1262724030

Lancer, I totally get it.  I’ve read all 7 pages of your carb kit post several times and also the post in the tech section.  It’s clear you’ve done the homework and tried multiple scenarios!  And you’ve updated your kit a few times and started including a UNI filter.  Your use of the UNI filter and inclusion in the kit prompted me to go with a 4” UNI filter on my Keihin PWK38 set up I’m working on now.  I haven’t installed it yet.

Back to the Mikuni VM36….  I’m at sea level and Woody ran well with the 200 main and clip in the 2nd groove from top.  So your typo guidance of 2nd groove was actually pretty good for my setup (stock air box side cover removed, and pretty open turnout style exhaust).  Maybe you liked that scenario on that particular day!  It wasn’t too lean and I probably could have dropped down to a 190 main jet.  I should have experimented with Woody a bit longer, but we didn’t get along well.  The bike was cursed against me with about anything I touched!  Surprised I didn’t pop a tire tube checking the air pressure!