Folks,
Before the story gets told incorrectly I want to explain it here first. Went to Mosport this past weekend. Friday and Saturday the weather was perfect. Friday at Mosport is a practice day and also a block of time is set aside for the Endurance race. Bob Balla offered me a ride on his srx yamaha in the race. So Bob, Joe Ruth, Rick Snyder and myself had a very respectable showing. BFD graciously agreed to do the scoring.
But that's not the problem. The problem all started when I didn't bother to bring enough gas to the track for the weekend. Friday my bike ran great. I felt like I was back up to speed from before my accident. Saturday I went to the track vendor to buy some gas before my practice sessions. After adding the Canadian gas I went to the track to get a couple of laps in before my heat races. After being so happy with the way the bike ran on Friday the bike ran awful on Saturday. I was convinced the gas was the problem. I drained the carbs and found some small crap in them so I removed both carbs and cleaned them completly. I drained my tank to get rid of the crappy Canadian gas. I also bought some extra gas from Phil Turkington and used that for my heat race. I didn't have any practice sessions left but was sure that I fixed the problem. In my heat race I started from the 11th row but got up to fourth place at the end. Just ahead of Phil Turkington so I was feeling pretty good. But the bike was still running pretty bad. On the long back straight the bike would get to 9k rpm and then just fall flat on it's face. In corners under a little throttle the motor would be breaking up. So back to the pits and remove the carbs once more. cleaned out a little crap but it didn't seem like enough to make a difference. But didn't have a lot of time before my next heat race. This heat race had 54 bikes. Two waves. I couldn't even see the starter from where I was on the grid in the second wave. I just went when everyone else did. I ended up finishing 17th overall, 11th in my class. Which was my bump up class. With a crappy running bike. Back to the pits and a few of us started tearing things apart. Once the carbs were cleaned for the third time to no difference. We started attacking the electrical system since it seemed like one side was running much richer than the other. Rabbie Demetrious loaned me his spare PVL coil to try on the bad side. No difference. We swapped the leads from the stator and moved the plug wires to opposite sides. We expected to see the bad side move to the other side of the motor. But still no difference. By this time there were four people working on this thing coming up with everything from valves being too tight to timing off. After about three hours of screwing with this thing Marty Yannerilla reaches down to the right side carb and asks if these Hondas run better with the choke turned off. Doh! Bike ran like a champ again on Sunday and I take back everything I said about the crappy Canadian gas.
Craig
Before the story gets told incorrectly I want to explain it here first. Went to Mosport this past weekend. Friday and Saturday the weather was perfect. Friday at Mosport is a practice day and also a block of time is set aside for the Endurance race. Bob Balla offered me a ride on his srx yamaha in the race. So Bob, Joe Ruth, Rick Snyder and myself had a very respectable showing. BFD graciously agreed to do the scoring.
But that's not the problem. The problem all started when I didn't bother to bring enough gas to the track for the weekend. Friday my bike ran great. I felt like I was back up to speed from before my accident. Saturday I went to the track vendor to buy some gas before my practice sessions. After adding the Canadian gas I went to the track to get a couple of laps in before my heat races. After being so happy with the way the bike ran on Friday the bike ran awful on Saturday. I was convinced the gas was the problem. I drained the carbs and found some small crap in them so I removed both carbs and cleaned them completly. I drained my tank to get rid of the crappy Canadian gas. I also bought some extra gas from Phil Turkington and used that for my heat race. I didn't have any practice sessions left but was sure that I fixed the problem. In my heat race I started from the 11th row but got up to fourth place at the end. Just ahead of Phil Turkington so I was feeling pretty good. But the bike was still running pretty bad. On the long back straight the bike would get to 9k rpm and then just fall flat on it's face. In corners under a little throttle the motor would be breaking up. So back to the pits and remove the carbs once more. cleaned out a little crap but it didn't seem like enough to make a difference. But didn't have a lot of time before my next heat race. This heat race had 54 bikes. Two waves. I couldn't even see the starter from where I was on the grid in the second wave. I just went when everyone else did. I ended up finishing 17th overall, 11th in my class. Which was my bump up class. With a crappy running bike. Back to the pits and a few of us started tearing things apart. Once the carbs were cleaned for the third time to no difference. We started attacking the electrical system since it seemed like one side was running much richer than the other. Rabbie Demetrious loaned me his spare PVL coil to try on the bad side. No difference. We swapped the leads from the stator and moved the plug wires to opposite sides. We expected to see the bad side move to the other side of the motor. But still no difference. By this time there were four people working on this thing coming up with everything from valves being too tight to timing off. After about three hours of screwing with this thing Marty Yannerilla reaches down to the right side carb and asks if these Hondas run better with the choke turned off. Doh! Bike ran like a champ again on Sunday and I take back everything I said about the crappy Canadian gas.
Craig
