carb upgrade

[madhatter]

:dunno:  has anyone got any idea on carb upgrade for the gs ?
have acsses to delorto carbs but have been told that they would be hard to set-up & would tend to run uneven for road use.

[octane]

A guy at one of my local shops used half a bank of GSXR carbs...I believe they were 36mm Mikuni's instead of the stock 34's. Don't quote me on that though.

[Michael]

Most people, even the racers, find rejetting the stock carbs is perfectly adequate.  I found the Australian version (at least in the 2001) was so restricted in the pipe and filter that I could not get it to run properly when I changed the filter for a Uni in the airbox and rejetted according to everyone's (read- Srinath's) recommendations, until I replaced the pipe as well.  Now it runs like a dream, has more power, no flat spot in the midrange, and gets the same mileage as stock.
Using different carbs is a real Pandora's box unless you have access to someone with a lot of experience with both that bike and those carbs and preferably a dyno.  I reckon you'd run into bulk dollars without any real gains in performance, not to mention the frustration.  Good luck anyway.

[madhatter]

 thanks for the reply i am moding the standerd exhaust putting hi-level with race TL1000 can and was wondering weather to remove the balance pipe on the down tubes would this help  :dunno:

[octane]

Removing the balance tube will hurt performance. The tube equalizes exhaust pulses. Where in the system the crossover is also affects where the power comes on. Of course it's a lot more complicated than that, but I'm not an engineer and that's the general idea.