15 hours or so on my RB OEM carb
Posted: 07:00 pm Mar 19 2021
Yeah I'm a little late in posting my review but I have put enough hours in to declare that MY MONEY WAS VERY WELL SPENT! I was running it without my airscrew properly turned for about half the hours and even then, the difference between stock and RB carb is night and day. I had one race, a 2 hour hare scramble, during the improperly tuned period and even then my KDX200 was a wildly ( in a really great way) different bike.
I have no idea what I was thinking or not thinking on the air screw adjustment. Upon realizing my incorrect number of turns, I set it 1.5 turns and started over from that point. WOW is an understatement even when considering how well it ran not adjusted properly. Then about the time that mistake was rectified, our (kdxrider.net) very own Entity was at the house and graciously helped set the sag on my KDX. Heck,that too was way off.
So. Now that new carb and 20 hour-ish new suspension is all working together, my KDX is a totally different bike. Regarding the RB carb, it pulls down so low that i actually forgot that I was in a gear higher (3rd instead of 2nd or 2nd instead of 1st) and i mean tractor pulling grunt with no burp/hiccup/bog and when accelerating the hesitancy to shoot forward is gone. It now has instant oomph. My top end has got to be higher but i can not say with absolute certainty. I can declare that i am moving so much faster,through certain sections i know well at Highland Park, that I forget that I am actually in a higher gear. DUH. Higher gear equates higher speed. My point is that my bike does a higher gear better now than it did a lower gear before my RB carb. make sense? It didn't to me for a short while until I realized what was happening. That is my point. The bike now performs so much better overall that I was smiling and enjoying my ride so much that i didn't think about the night and day difference I was experiencing.
Bottom line: BUY THE RB CARB whether to replace your decades old one or if you just want your KDX to get closer to it's full potential. what Ron Black charges is minimal compared to all the carb does for the bike. it is that simple.
I have no idea what I was thinking or not thinking on the air screw adjustment. Upon realizing my incorrect number of turns, I set it 1.5 turns and started over from that point. WOW is an understatement even when considering how well it ran not adjusted properly. Then about the time that mistake was rectified, our (kdxrider.net) very own Entity was at the house and graciously helped set the sag on my KDX. Heck,that too was way off.
So. Now that new carb and 20 hour-ish new suspension is all working together, my KDX is a totally different bike. Regarding the RB carb, it pulls down so low that i actually forgot that I was in a gear higher (3rd instead of 2nd or 2nd instead of 1st) and i mean tractor pulling grunt with no burp/hiccup/bog and when accelerating the hesitancy to shoot forward is gone. It now has instant oomph. My top end has got to be higher but i can not say with absolute certainty. I can declare that i am moving so much faster,through certain sections i know well at Highland Park, that I forget that I am actually in a higher gear. DUH. Higher gear equates higher speed. My point is that my bike does a higher gear better now than it did a lower gear before my RB carb. make sense? It didn't to me for a short while until I realized what was happening. That is my point. The bike now performs so much better overall that I was smiling and enjoying my ride so much that i didn't think about the night and day difference I was experiencing.
Bottom line: BUY THE RB CARB whether to replace your decades old one or if you just want your KDX to get closer to it's full potential. what Ron Black charges is minimal compared to all the carb does for the bike. it is that simple.