What Have You Done To Your Scooter Today??  By  jerseyboy (Read 27,384 times)

Haulinwiener,

Welcome to the site! You won't be "green" for long... These scoots are easy to work on, and invite experimentation.

I'm not familiar with the 50cc scoots, but they're mechanically similar to all the other engine sizes. SLIDERS are recommended by many riders for some sound reasons.

Their flat sides contact the entire variator surface, which ROLLERS cannot do, simply because they're round. They only contact the variator at their centers. This difference seems to allow the SLIDERS to more fully open and close the variator, providing some improvement in both acceleration AND top-speed. Most performance mods offer one, or the other benefit, but not both... LOL!

Changing out weights is fairly easy, so I'd encourage you to experiment. I don't know the standard weights of your factory rollers (50cc riders please help out here...) but with larger engines, many riders find that the next heavier weight slider is OK. You don't want to bog-down the small engine, so it might be necessary to try both stock-weight, and heavier sliders. That gets a little expensive, but the sliders you don't use could be sold to another 50cc rider to offset the expense.

I rode a Chinese 150 for 7 years and found that experimentation with variator weights can make a big difference in performance.  I found that for best all around riding I needed a mix of 2 different weights.  Not common, but it happens.  (12 gram rollers were too heavy and bogged, 11 grams were too light and cut top-speed. 3 11's and 3 12's mixed alternately were perfect on my scoot...).

I have not heard ANY negative reports on sliders: only highly positive. Based on that, I plan to install sliders in my old 250 when I can get to it. I think the improvements may be more noticeable with larger displacement engines, but good performance should be expected with any size.

Good luck, and ride safe!

Leo in Texas

thanks or the reply

believe ill go ahead and pull the trigger

just wished I knew what size to get

6 grams seems to be common on what ive read

and whats the consensus on the dyna jet/6sigma carb kits

ive read good and bad

what ive got out of what ive read is when you start fooling with intake and exhaust the carb definitely has to be retuned

again thanks

im going to need all the good advice I can get here shortly

and wheelbender I like a hot fudge sundae too

bout too cold around here to be eating icecream outside though

man my teeth hurt thinking about it

d-damn I'd say

I guess i'm going to have to tear down to the weights and throw them on a digital scale to see what ive got before I order--I have the means

its when/if I throw this uni type pod filter on is when ive got to start paying attention and not do anything permanent I guess

I guess i'll see how it acts when that filter gets here

thanks again for your input

well...

I put in the slider weights today

they were six grams

factory are five grams in case anybody wants to know

installed the Gates belt too

later on my Prima magnetic drain plug set came so I changed all oils and used Lucas for MC's and installed those

gotta say im very pleased

acceleration is a lot smoother and id say my scooter has a bit longer legs

well everything except my jets came today

installed the orange cdi and coil

wouldn't crank so I switched the two wires on the coil and it fired up

is this common?

yeah I need to get a petcock too

haha -petcock-

switched the coil wires back and it fired up??

go figure but leaving it as is with green to green

put on my LED headlight and the MF'er flickers

whats up with that??

maybe it needs to warm up??

going to look at it better when it gets dark

put on the pod filter and it sounds rather "throaty" and I like it

doesn't bog down when I twist on the throttle either but im sure its running lean

when I pulled the factory plug to put in the iridium it was kinda sooty

whats the chances its actually burning fine now??

how do you test it??

run wide open and kill it-check plug??

what does everybody do with the leftover hose from the breather box omit??

anyways back out into the rain to fool with this thing

actually its just misting

I love my FroggToggs

u can get em at WalMart for like $20

best money I ever spent for riding my scoot

need to get me one of those fluorescent vests

yep that fixed it

going to have to upjet I suppose