I love the community engagement. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to provide support insight and tips since the premier. Based on those conversations I have two updates. Update 1: The VForce4 Reeds I use in this video are determined to be counterfeit. I’ll be swapping them out and am thinking about doing a comparison video. My thanks to the Blaster community for highlighting this and sharing with me. Update 2: I reused the circlips on the wrist pin bearing from the piston that I had put roughly 10hrs on. Many builders recommend never reusing a wrist pin circlip as a failure could be catastrophic. The chance of deformity during removal and reinstallation raises the chances of failure even on a low hours clip.
if you take a look at the carbon fiber pattern on the reeds you can see if they are diagonal fiber pattern but if they are straight down and not diagonal they are counterfeit. hope this helps ❤
Ultimately with this setup they are keihin jets so the numbers don’t align to stock Mikuni jets. This is a 45 pilot and 165 main now. If you’re doing a stock build the stock carb factory jets would have been 32.5 pilot and 230 main from Mikuni but again these are two very different carbs between this one and a stock one. I wouldn’t have been able to use a stock carb even with larger jets on this build.
The accuracy of counterfeit parts these days is criminal, with the VF the loose weave carbon is the tell, the only difference I've found with the keihins is the china slide cutaway isn't marked and wont fit into a genuine 33 or 35 , they even knockoff the serial number and plas-tec hoses nowadays. I even got scammed on a counterfeit d.i.d. drive chain 😡
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I love the community engagement. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to provide support insight and tips since the premier. Based on those conversations I have two updates.
Update 1:
The VForce4 Reeds I use in this video are determined to be counterfeit. I’ll be swapping them out and am thinking about doing a comparison video. My thanks to the Blaster community for highlighting this and sharing with me.
Update 2:
I reused the circlips on the wrist pin bearing from the piston that I had put roughly 10hrs on. Many builders recommend never reusing a wrist pin circlip as a failure could be catastrophic. The chance of deformity during removal and reinstallation raises the chances of failure even on a low hours clip.
Great video thanks for taking the time to make these
Loving the content keep up the killer work man!
if you take a look at the carbon fiber pattern on the reeds you can see if they are diagonal fiber pattern but if they are straight down and not diagonal they are counterfeit. hope this helps ❤
It does help. Thanks for the insight.
no problems dude, glad it was helpful
What was your right jet’s ??? Or what jet’s or good
Ultimately with this setup they are keihin jets so the numbers don’t align to stock Mikuni jets. This is a 45 pilot and 165 main now. If you’re doing a stock build the stock carb factory jets would have been 32.5 pilot and 230 main from Mikuni but again these are two very different carbs between this one and a stock one. I wouldn’t have been able to use a stock carb even with larger jets on this build.
The accuracy of counterfeit parts these days is criminal, with the VF the loose weave carbon is the tell, the only difference I've found with the keihins is the china slide cutaway isn't marked and wont fit into a genuine 33 or 35 , they even knockoff the serial number and plas-tec hoses nowadays. I even got scammed on a counterfeit d.i.d. drive chain 😡