It's The Spark We Get out-of-it
Oct 15, 2010 06:21:51 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>I plan to, at some point, pick up a smaller motorcycle for a local--
>commuter. I will /probably/ be going for a small Nighthawk, probably a
>two cylinder (250/450), or an older Triumph aircooled twin. It will
>get taken apart and rebuilt to use E85, simply because I can get it
>locally and I like the cleaner burning, low-oil fouling high
>compression nature of the fuel. It's rated 105, and very consistently
>high quality (the stations that carry it are Sphinx stations, and the
>man who runs that franchise is very pro-alternative fuels).
>
>I will very likely completely disassemble the carburetors, clean them
>thoroughly, send them off to be anodized (again), and then have them
>jetted to take the high ethanol fuel. Make plenty of adjustments and
>all that. Compression bump, obviously, and whatever trick I can get to
>advance ignition timing. We'll see if I destroy it with ethanol, I
>suppose.
>
>-Kurt
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