3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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bill h wrote:
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I devised a part time setup that injected some Francisco Two-Snapper fuel directly into the intake manifold. It contained nitromethane and alcohol, as well as castor oil to prevent piston sticking, which was the usual failure mode for that bike.
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My gosh, Bill, what was your major - Rocket Science?
You were way, way ahead of me and my scooter crowd!
I remember the Puch as the Sears Allstate 250.
When I was growing up (in Tennessee) you could get a restricted license for a "scooter" at age 14 if it was 5 hp or less. We could ride only in daylight and were not suppose to go further than 7 miles from our home. At 16 those restrictions were removed.
Larger scooters and bikes often had a restricter plate installed by a dealer that wrote out a 5 hp certification slip. It did not take long to remove the plate, file it out and replace it. We left the modified plate in because the cops would look for the aluminum edge.
I started with a Cushman Eagle, then a 8 hp Cushman Super Eagle followed by several Triumph Tiger Cubs and a 250 cc Zundap before I jumped to a 700 cc Norton Atlas at 16.
EVERY kid in town had a scooter of some sort and we rode them every where.
I guess that was where I got my start on messing with small air cooled engines. There were all sorts of ways to hop them up - but nothing like what you did!
The GX engines on the Chinese generators have certainly improved over the old scooter engines that had points and a flat head design.
