Great site!! I sure wish I had spent more time digging in here would have saved me some time!!
To many purists dismay, I have purchased a 1970 custom chopper. It was sold to me as a "Bonnie"... however, I've been duped!! With a VIN of JD26605 TR6R I have learned it to be a Tiger fitted with twin 32mm Mikuni's with a 750 big bore kit.
Full yet short story, I was deployed to Iraq, found it on the internet, drove to FL, started it, looked good, sounded good, bought it, put it in the garage then deployed to Afghanistan only two weeks after being back from Iraq.
I now see why he sold it... It idled great!! but I only have awesome top end power (struggling to get there) or mediocre bottom end power. I have learned much about the internals of Miki's in the last two weeks! I've set the idle/air mixture, synched slides, and adjusted needles up and down one notch at a time... Arg!
So, on with my question... Are there internal head/cam differences between Tiger and Bonnie engines? A Tiger normally having a single carb and this one having twin 32 Miki's am I trying to push way too much fuel to it? Any thoughts?
To many purists dismay, I have purchased a 1970 custom chopper. It was sold to me as a "Bonnie"... however, I've been duped!! With a VIN of JD26605 TR6R I have learned it to be a Tiger fitted with twin 32mm Mikuni's with a 750 big bore kit.
Full yet short story, I was deployed to Iraq, found it on the internet, drove to FL, started it, looked good, sounded good, bought it, put it in the garage then deployed to Afghanistan only two weeks after being back from Iraq.
I now see why he sold it... It idled great!! but I only have awesome top end power (struggling to get there) or mediocre bottom end power. I have learned much about the internals of Miki's in the last two weeks! I've set the idle/air mixture, synched slides, and adjusted needles up and down one notch at a time... Arg!
So, on with my question... Are there internal head/cam differences between Tiger and Bonnie engines? A Tiger normally having a single carb and this one having twin 32 Miki's am I trying to push way too much fuel to it? Any thoughts?
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