Cutting out under throttle. Aftermarket exhaust.

I am trying to get my head around this bike I bought a couple months ago. It is a 1991 that has had a Yoshimura exhaust and aftermarket air cleaner installed. I asked him If he did anything to the carb (jetting etc.) and he said no. My question is with that exhaust and the air filter should I be changing out my stock needle to a different size? or simply moving the clip on the existing needle to run richer or leaner? It seems to run fine than warms up and then bogs out when I hit the throttle while riding. Thanks for any help


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69ST

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Bogging usually means lean. The fact that the engine won't rev-out is probably a good thing...lean makes power, but is also risky since lean mixtures also increase combustion chamber temps. If the stock carb is still in place and unchanged, I would expect lean running. Just eliminating the stock airbox, alone, can require upsizing the main jet, by one number. Adding a race-type exhaust also changes the effective fuel curve, in unpredictable ways. Bottom line, these induction & exhaust changes usually require much richer carb tuning than stock.

First thing to try is lowering the jet needle clip to the lowest groove. That'll richen the mixture as much as possible, with the existing carb configuration. If you see some improvement, you'll know for sure that you're on the right track. Even if the motor runs a lot better, I'd still test it with the next larger size main jet. Ideally, you want to find the rich limit, i.e. the combination of smallest jet size & leanest jet needle height setting that causes rich misfire (the engine won't rev-out cleanly), then lean-out the jet needle height and/or drop-back one jet size, from there to get optimal performance across the revband & throttle opening range.
 
So I removed the needle and I had forgotten that this is the "California version" so there is no adjustments on the jet needle. Since I don't have a manual for this particular year I have no idea what needle size I even have to replace it with one that is adjustable. One thing about this carb is that the air bleed screw is fairly stripped out from the previous owner and if I remember from reading about these California versions is that they are not meant to be adjusted.

Maybe I would be better off with an aftermarket carb.
 
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