jetting mikuni carbs for a mirage

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merlin

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just bought a set of mikuni carbs to fit to my mirage is there a listing for the jetting or can anyone give me a starting point, the carbs are from a triumph I need to make up the mounts etc but looking forward to doing it. At the moment I cant afford to buy the ready made kit
dave
 
If you got carbs off a Triumph then they will be CV's not RS36's. One of the ausie guys fitted a set to his RGS with good results, can't remember who right now but I'm sure he will chime in soon.


    Keith
 
Dave

As Keith said, they have been fitted before.
I tried some 38CV's with good results, only problem could not get replacement needles.
Had a problem with clearance to the tank on the RGS as the 38CV's are quite big compared to the 36's.
The previously had a Dynojet kit in them and as usual the Dynojet needles reamed out the emulsion tubes.
Swapped them all back to standard and all well for a year or so, then the fuel consumption shot up and I found worn needles & emulsion tubes....
Changed to a set of 36CV's off a '93 Tiger with good results, slightly better fuel consumption and good all round performance.
They fit a lot better as they are physically smaller carbs.

Steve Battisson http://www.breganzane.com/workshop/carbs_cv.php did the 36CV conversion some time ago and still has them on one of the bikes.
He's also done fuel injection.

Back to mine... I am running 120 mains with 40 pilots, standard needles and emulsion tubes, needle on the middle clip.
I also changed the inlet stubs to the 10 degree ones from Red, Keith has them in Scotland, he's Red's man for the area.
Also dropped the air box and used :heater: hose to connect to the air box.

Seem to remember Steve Battisson is running same/similar jetting on his 1200 RGA, different needle.
The stock settings are a good place to start.

Pic of my 38's
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Some previous discussions
http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=80385.0
Steven
 
Yep, that was me- back in 2001.
They work very well once set up, though you'll need to do some fiddling to get them on and working satisfactorily.  Big improvement in low and midrange power, throtle response and economy, at the expense of some top end.  Mine came off an early GSXR1100.  As the other Steve has indicated, needles wear on these things.
They were fitted to my RGA1200 and were superceded by the EFI - which works even better again but was probably 10 times the work and cost.  The Miks went onto the Missus' RGS.

Cheers
Steve B
 
thanks for the input , you are right keith I had rs36s on the brain .if anyone is interested I have also got a set of 34mm carbs from a gsx750  in fair condition they came with the 36mm carbs message me if interested
dave
 
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