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Marque Remarks => Honda => Topic started by: ghostrider on November 18, 2013, 08:51:04 pm

Title: Carby choice for 1984 CR500
Post by: ghostrider on November 18, 2013, 08:51:04 pm
Thinking about updating the old Keihin(badly worn slide and internals) Carb on the 1984 CR500 , what would an appropriate choice ?I notice that maybe a more updated Mikuni or maybe a flat slide might be the go , any suggestions on what works with this model. Any help appreciated.
Title: Re: Carby choice for 1984 CR500
Post by: g465b on November 18, 2013, 09:46:52 pm
the pwk flat slide off the 92 cr500 is being used,a guy at cd9 running one on 84 500 gave me info-needle R1368NS , pilot 55, main 165.                    g,
Title: Re: Carby choice for 1984 CR500
Post by: YZ250H on November 19, 2013, 08:23:25 am
Heaps of discussion on this topic on CR500riders.com forum.  Takes a bit of digging.  They all seem to recomend the PWK Carb.  A few of them have them off a KX500  :o

Lots of jetting info as well.  The place to go if you need info on a CR500 of any description  8)

The notes I took say :
PWK 38 or 39.5
Main 175
Pilot 48
Needle 1368 for 38, 1370 for 39.5
Clip 3
Cutaway 6
Idle 2

The KX 500 uses an odd size (39.5mm and makes a vast difference by all accounts)

Here's a new one

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=231094075928&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_106wt_1362



I'd love to hear back what you decided on and how it all went.
Title: Re: Carby choice for 1984 CR500
Post by: ghostrider on November 27, 2013, 10:33:28 pm
thanks for all your helpful responses, I am settling on the PWK 39.5MM , I have some slight porting and compression issues to deal with, I will update how things are progressing. cheers.