ciderman

Have you been using it ? Could be a dud battery or maybe you have charging problems. Check out the Electrosport website for a PDF of a fault finding flow chart for charging problems.

Sorted refitted the old say what now!? carbs and its running like a mouses heart - cider time methinks lol

What was the roundabout way you sorted it ?

No leaks I've been spraying WD40 around the inlets and I swopped the inlet manifolds even though I could see nothing wrong with but it just ruled another thing out. its a standard filter fitted. Think I gotta go on the hunt for jets

The bike will rev out if I cover the airbox with my hand so I presume I need a bit of jetting work. I got 122.5 mains in atm any idea where I'll get bigger jets

Swopped the jets over and still no joy refuses to rev 5k

One other thing that may be an issue - Slingshot has two petrol feeds from the tank and the bandit only has one. Would this cause it to starve of fuel

I'm out in the wilds of north Cork. I've just opened both sets of carbs. The bandit has 102.5 main jet and the say what now!? carbs are 122.5. Going to try swopping over and see how I go

Hi all. Set up an account years ago and forgot about it (ooops) so typical when I'm in trouble I show up like again. I have a 1990 Gixer1100 Slingshot. I blow the motor about two years ago. Lack of funds meant it stayed under a sheet for a while. Before Christmas I knocked across a cheap bandit 12 engine. Few covers missing no pick ups but I had them. Long story short fitted engine and running but it was almost as bad as what I took out - on with the sheets and walked away from it. Last week a buddy rang me to say he was breaking a Bandit 12. Bike was on the button so did a deal for the engine and carbs - also got the loom and cdi. Fitted the motor and carbs, started it and it backfired for a little bit then settled into a nice tickover but it won't rev over 4k rpm and if I try it surges, dies, surges and stops completely. The only initial problem I spotted is the ignition pick up. Both have a single pick up but I never knew the rotors were different. I ran the bike with the Bandit engine/carbs and the Bandit pickup/rotor. As soon as I spotted this I swopped the rotor to the say what now!? one but no change. Is there any way I could have damaged the cdi by running the wrong rotor. The lad I got it from it convinced I need the bandit cdi but I ran the first bandit engine with the say what now!? cdi. Any ideas please