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Yesterday.. my friend on his turbo 15' KTM 450.. still haven't figured it out. Poor guy.
300 2s snobikes impressions???
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Yesterday.. my friend on his turbo 15' KTM 450.. still haven't figured it out. Poor guy.
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You just need to run a lectron or smart carb and it's game over for temperature and elevation tunning. They take a bit to get set up but once they are dialed the do better than the efi systems out there. With my smart carb I have ran from 3000 to 12000ft in the same week without touching anything and have got the same plug reading and egts. I had one four stroke ktm and when it needed a top end and valve train after one snow season I promptly sold it and went back to 2 strokes! Haha
I tried the smarty, actually 3 different one and for some reason they all over temped when setting the needle to idle right. Put a lectron on and had to go with the 3-4 needle to get the midrange grunt of the smarty but now have a simple power jet that you lean or richen with a turn of a screw but from down low to up high I havnt had to touch it in 70 hours of riding.
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I know you had bad luck with your smarty but I also know a lot of people that have had really good results from them.. My 40mm has 250hrs on it right now, the first 30 were spent tuning it and everything I changed to make it work they come with now. So in the last 220hrs the only thing I have done is turn it 5 clicks leaner for dirt to clean up the bottom end a little bit. Full pulls for 2-3 minutes I see 1250 degrees. I'm not taking anything away from the lectron either, they work good. They are both worlds ahead of the stock carb I have on my girlfriends 300, I'm still fighting it. We ride from 4500 to 9000ft and there is just no way to make it work good everywhere, it's getting a lectron on it.
I would agree with a Lectron or Smarty... I think the Lectrons are more dialed and they are willing to make a rod that will work if you give them time for your application. I have about 200 hours on each and both have their advantages... Either one has been an upgrade from a regular carb for greater consistency through the the year in temp and elevation... For me the biggest downside is the Cold starting ..... Even more on the smarty... Adding a primer on both bikes solved the issue immediately... On both once set I never really touch again.... The smarty took a little longer to get to that point.
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Agreed, I have a 38mm Lectron on my 300 and only tuned the first 2 rides. Have ridden from 1500 to 10,000' and no ajustments. Blows me away. cold starts are good too, one problem is the choke freezes down sometimes but i just put gas on my prefilter and starts right up. only need choke for the first start on the day anyhow.
As I have learned in life, run what you want. I have heard of the guys that have had good luck with there smartys and am very happy for them. I tried them enough to figure out the flat needle design works, therefore I am glad I tried them. I just kept having over temp issues at wide open with a cast on my gas gas, a 38 then 40 on my ktm, and a 40 on my kx 500. The gas gas was set up by Randy on here and he had no over temp issues when he ran it he made me aware of so either I am to heavy, or the air is different in Washington than Montana?? I don't know. I do know I have installed a lectron on my 300 ktm to try and get my over temping issues under control and have had zero 1350-1400 egt pulls since. I also have had no sticking balls restricting fuel flow from the float bowl, no having to change float seats to increase flow ect. The only thing I did was installed a 3-4 needle in my lectron, which they had me 1/2 turn from perfect on the recommendation setting, and now enjoy the flat needle performance with the feature of richening up the top end with a simple turn if a screw, all at a smaller cost. So no bashing, just what I did. If it help someone....great