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Used to find them in restricted moped exhausts in the 80's.....my job was to take them out and re-jet the carbys to unleash the beast within
Would that be a Gerbil or a Hamster?????????????
 
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Originally Posted by grbrown
It was just like an aluminium washer, welded in - dead easy to remove, but a rather bigger job than matching up carby and manifold as you first described. Also best done off the bike!
What carb was that on?
Your S&S?
 
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Would that be a Gerbil or a Hamster?????????????
A very sick and feeble hamster but we are talking something like a 30-40% power increase, so it was the equivalent of an 82HP Evo
 
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A very sick and feeble hamster but we are talking something like a 30-40% power increase, so it was the equivalent of an 82HP Evo

Just cause you got a Twinkie now?

By the way I'll have you know my EVO has at least 3 hamsters in there...
 
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Just cause you got a Twinkie now?

By the way I'll have you know my EVO has at least 3 hamsters in there...

My TC has Andrews Gerbil cams now, eat my dust Hamsters!
 
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My TC has Andrews Gerbil cams now, eat my dust Hamsters!
Yeah yeah yeah.

Big talk for a cream filled pastry....
 
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