MORE POW!  By  rcq92130 (Read 5,184 times)

That's normal . What I do is put the belt as far on as I can and then I squeeze the belt together in the middle , this pulls the belt down in the clutch an will give you more room . I repeat this as I tighten the drive face until the drive face is tightened down completely . U want to slowly tighten the drive face after each time you squeeze the belt down the clutch so you don't smash the belt in the variator .

Thx for tips. Splines went on fine; belt didn't pinch to my knowledge and seems to be working fine.

However - I can't say I noticed any huge difference between this Dr Pulley variator + 11g sliders and what was on there from the manufacturer. Maybe the scooter was power constrained, not variator constrained.

Anyway, today put on a ScrappyDgs CDI and stuck a 130 main jet in (I'm at sea level). Idle now tuned much better (damn plug was in the way). Have not yet put the Uni filter on since I have not yet made an intake manifold, so the ;larger jet may not help yet (or may even hurt).

Will see more this afternoon.

Wooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!! Terrible !!!!!!!!!!!

Anything over half throttle and the scooter bogs down, misses & coughs.

Will swap out the CDI first, just because it 's easy, and make sure that's not faulty. Otherwise, have to decide if wait and see if the uni filter mates better with the higher fuel flow, or go ahead and put in a smaller main jet .........

I have a 150cc. I bought a cheap 115mm variator ramp sheave and dropped my weights from 13g to 8g. From 0-10mph the bike is sluggish and drags the motor down. Then the fun begins. Above a few miles per hour,  acceleration is very nice, and earlier I counted about 4 seconds from 20-30, 6 from 30-40 and 10 from 40-50 CMPH. (Chinese MPH) The wot rpm is about 5700-6000 or so, and I hit 55mph at about 6300 rpm, for a nice quiet cruise. Before the new variator, it ran 7000 rpm at 55, but it could climb a steep bridge at a very nice clip. That being said, my top end has little power. I often struggle to maintain 55 in the wind, but it will do 60 in calm air. The engine just doesn't have the power to handle the variator, which in my mind is a good thing because I can see that I have maxed out my top end power, plus the 10-50mph acceleration is excellent. I think. This is the only scooter I have ever driven.

I don't know if bigger jets would do anything for me. All I know is that, with the new variator, the last few degrees of throttle are practically useless. It almost seems better to back off a bit on it and it gets all the speed it can produce before the throttle is all the way open. I may try a bigger jet if someone tells me it is capable of giving me more power though, as it only takes a few minutes to pull the carb apart. I do know that I don't want loud pipes. More flow would be nice but I like it as quiet as possible. 

Well all I have to say is something is not right if he has 8gram weights and only getting in the 6000 rpm range that is for sure.
With 10gram weights that motor should be running high in the 7000 rpms range. So with lighter weights below 10grams that motor should be screaming. Maybe he doesn't have a tach on it and is just guessing what the rpms are.

That's exactly right , 8 gram weights and you should be around 30 or 40 mph at nearly 8000 rpms . If I go below 10 grams I redline before I hit my top speed . And that's with the taller tires . Something is def wrong . Also you should be pullin wheelies at takeoff not having sluggish issues.