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29-06-17, 10:50 PM | #11 | |
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Here's how my 1999 Curvy on 17k miles sounds, https://app.box.com/s/tzkld9wa7inm7x6lemb8hwcko9jzbxwg Standard unleaded UK fuel.Stock Exhaust.Motul MA2 oil+ a little MoS 2
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30-06-17, 07:15 AM | #12 |
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... and that is exactly what a normal healthy, SV sounds like. As said elsewhere, SVs are mechanically noisy compared with inline 4 or inline twins, because the SV has not one, but two hugely long camchains which tick away to themselves, and the sound is not being damped by a large mass of cylinder block like it is with a 4 or twin.
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30-06-17, 07:14 PM | #15 |
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...you are right on point with that observation, and THANK GOD for the fact of it...!!!... .!..!.
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10-07-17, 08:09 PM | #16 |
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Re: Fuel requirments ?
Anyone got a classic bike - Ethanol is bad news
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...and-bikes.html
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The problem with old machinery not designed for ethanol...
Ethanol is a solvent and will simply dissolve some of the components in older machinery. |
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Re: Fuel requirments ?
Doesn't the FI engine have a knock sensor to automatically set the timing according to the fuel that's in the tank?
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13-07-17, 02:02 PM | #19 |
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- its the other nasty habits Ethanol will actually raise the octane and thereby the resistance to knocking - it is the other nasty habits ethanol has of attracting water and dissolving some metals and plastics in vehicles not designed to handle fuel with it in.
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