Originally Posted by
wallot
another attempt to tune the engine. no luck at all. the engine does not seem to respond to any needle movement (rich, lean, HSN, LSN no mater what we did engine just bogs on straights). idle is ok. acceleration is great but top speed issues continue. The only thing I can think of is an airleak in the engine itself as I tried two carbs but it does not sound like an airleak.
//edit - got possible cause identified will let you know if fix helped
If you don't think you have an airleak, what's your clutch look like? I have had flame out/reliability problems and chased the tune for way too long only to find the clutch was smoked.