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Old 02-18-2013 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by grizz1
We have found a lot of customers (with various brands of motors) often fall into the trap of ending up with an idle gap that is too wide when tuning - resulting in what we have affectionately labelled as the "Average Woman Tune" - a fat bottom end with a wide gap and too lean on top .
No offence meant to any of the fairer sex who may read this (us men are of course all such fine physical specimens - NOT ).
It's just a handy way of remembering what trying to tune with a wide idle gap will ultimately create, and it seems to help many customers find their way to a better state of tune on their motors.
Lolz yeah I will keep that in mind. With the #p5 it was 0.4 or so, I am running a 6 mm venturi as well for less bottom end on the xb9.
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