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It seems to make sense that a more power and less wot equals longer parts life, whereas putting your engine in WOT, no matter what bore size, will wear things out quicker.

That hill thing is mostly why I plan on getting a bbk, I can go 43mph downhill, and up to 38mph on flat terrain, but I always slow down to 25mph on any and all hills. While I would absolutely love to get a 2stroke to toy around with, or a 150cc, I currently don't have the cash to throw down on one. I've been trying to look through craigslist for project bikes and such, but I'm having no luck. Everyone is selling their really old chinese scooters for $1,100+ around here in Chicagoland. Nobody likes to trade, either... I have a two stroke Honda Zook, and a two stroke foldable DiBlasi scooter, but neither of those are even worth modding.

Funny, the AM2 chips from AMD had a problem where cooling them to below a certain temperature would make them freeze; I guess that's the case here as well, haha. I'm sure the performance fan pushes a lot more air than the stock fan and that should mean my engine will last just a bit longer though I doubt it will really effect the performance of the thing, unless I'm really pushing it to its limits on a long drive. Mine is air cooled, and just like my computer, I thought adding a high quality fan might help. I paid $12 for my 120mm fan for my case alone, I should be spending more than that on a high quality fan for my scooter too.

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My life was "drastically altered" when I was about 8 years old thanks to a drunk driver. My mother who had always been productive and working was the driver and she herniated three discs in her upper back meaning she has to take pain medication for the rest of her life just to be able to move around without tears of pain.

I myself got off lucky and have three bulging discs in my mid back and every day is filled with some pretty bad pain.

We were just driving to get some Wendy's when this old jackass came out of nowhere from behind us, at a stoplight, doing 70mph+ and hit four or five cars behind us. We were the lucky ones... Of the cars behind us, one of the women hit was pregnant.

I certainly hope you all have learned your lessons... And needless to say, I never, ever drink and drive.

I also know two people that have literally killed people while texting. They tell me stories of how they were just texting on their phone and heard a big "bump" but kept on driving, only to come home to the police claiming they had killed a man. And these disgusting Texting-Punks both thought it was just funny, of all things, because they had both killed illegal immigrants. One of them is just acting cool while he is very deeply disturbed by what he's done and hasn't been the same. The other is just completely stupid.

I honestly think we need to bring back that special place called a Gulag specifically for those kinds of people.

So I barely have six months of experience with my scooter, but I have years of experience with electronics and computer components. And I was wondering if anything really translates or correlates to the world of scooters, such as comparing a big bore kit with overclocking.

When it comes to computer overclocking, it often requires upping the voltage, perfecting the ram timings, and most importantly upping the cooling system. Now, oddly you would think this would cause more power usage, more wear on the components, and that it would cost more money, but sometimes it's quite the opposite.

You see, when your computer needs to utilize all its resources, including cpu power, it needs to max out its voltage, power usage, and has to "rev up" in order to keep up with whatever heavy task you're doing. (especially with turbo core, but I won't get into that here.)

So, when you overclock your computer this gives your computer more resources to work with in the form of shear processing power. With an efficient overclock may come longer parts life, snappier response, and LESS POWER USAGE . But why? Because, just like in scooters, you don't have to run "WOT" all the time. The processor barely needs any of its extra power in order to perform your task at hand and in the long run this conserves on power usage. And even though you would think that overclocking and stretching the potential of a cpu processor would kill it eventually, there is sometimes less wear on the processor just because it doesn't need to utilize nearly as much power to perform a task, even though its max voltage has increased.


Now, I was wondering if that translates or correlates to the world of scoots in the fact that I am right now running WOT ALL the time. No matter where I'm going, I seem to have to run WOT just to maintain speed limits. Now, with a BBK I shouldn't even have to run WOT; would this not translate to less wear on my parts, even though it's a bigger bore? Even though I will have much more power, utilizing only a fraction of it should technically mean that it's safer than running WOT all the time on a 63cc, which I currently do.

My second unproven hypothesis is that cooling should play an important factor in my engine's life span. Why? I don't know, that's just how it works with computer components. I have no way of measuring the temps and from what I hear an engine runs best when it's warm, or hot. But doesn't that wear stuff out? Would it not be in everyone's best interest to get performance cooling?

What's your opinion on this fan?
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PC821A/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2VPA2J7YDDYST

What are your thoughts? Am I just completely wrong on this one?

[replyingto=ricepapi]ricepapi[/replyingto]I think it would very much help to know your scooter specs and scooter model, etc. but I'm no expert

[replyingto=awhitlock]endru[/replyingto]

Thanks, Endru! That video will sure to come in handy. I really appreciate not having to look for that, haha.



Whatchoo talkin' bout? What's going to expire? Why? How? The big picture is a collapsing economy, but that has nothing to do with this at all. You know that it's a 50mm bbk and not a full 100cc bbk, right? It's like 82cc. A 100cc bbk might make my engine explode, but 82cc will just shorten the life of my crankshaft from what I've heard.

If there's more to this, do tell.

When I first got my scooter I tried adjusting the valves to fix my hard start issues. The scooter ran better, but was still difficult to start. Then only after properly jetting (or improperly jetting if you ask some, 38 pilot jet LOL), and adjusting my idle I still couldn't get the thing to start on the first try, it was very difficult to start. It was only after I popped off the A/F screw cap on the carb (I use a stock carb that came with a small cap blocking this feature) and got access to the a/f screw that I was able to adjust my a/f ratio and finally get my scooter to start on the first try, every time.

I do hope you followed this very guide that I used.