If you plan on upping the compression, what ratio will you use? If you can go up to around 12.7, and add water injection, you will keep a clean engine and make about double your miles per gallon. And you could use 87 octane to do it, not 105.
________________________________ From: Kurt Nolte <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 6:21:41 PM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Slightly OT... Fuel 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
