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Old 06-11-2008 | 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Core Creations
Hey Tony...any basic tuning tricks that you can share for black cans. We have begun to use them in mini outside here and it would be nice to have any info you could pass on. Thanks!
Good question, but you might not like the answer.

As with any sealed motor there are a million diffferent ways of running them in etc, and in our experience, none of them really make much difference!
The bottom line, most motors will eventually settle down to a level probably 500+ rpm of how the motor comes out of the box. And that'll happen pretty much no matter what you do to it.

To use an old phrase 'you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear' And it applies to Sport-Tuneds too.
We've seen as much as 5000 rpm difference between a good one and a bad one. We just...buy half a dozen, test em, keep the good ones..and sell the others off... Hee hee. Its a simple as that.

And, as a benchmark, anything around 22,000 rpm+ (measured on a Trinity Dyno) is considered a good motor. We have seen them up in the high 23's, but they're few and far between.

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