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one thing to remember IF you sell built CDIs, you should support something like the ignition. If there is a fault or customer needs help will you be willing to spend time and money to make them happy?

Has anyone heard of Chinoy's yamaha CDI, kinda sore spot for some Yama guys.

Sure hope your copy works, ether way you go atleast there may be a home made replacement! thats repairable!!

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Yamaha XS550's, the little 4 cylinders, have a dual CDI ignition, complete with two pickups, one two sided ignition box, and two, dual lead coils. Change the coils to single lead, the rest of the parts are wrecking yard, and it works well. The rest of the XS 4 cylinder series is TCBI, NOT CD.

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Well Robert, I don't know if you are getting the response you expected by your announcement of your work or not. However, congratulations on your hard work.

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I had more written here, but f**k it, it ain't worth it.
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My unsolicited advice, keep it to yourself for your own use and for those you know intimately. Or sell it to someone else to produce. You don't need the hassle.

Good luck.

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Ive had this problem with the float bowls leaking around the gasket for some time.I have checked the needle and seat countless times,float levels were a bit high so I set those to 24.25mm as per specs,and replaced the gaskets.All the floats are in good shape.Its not a drip,just seeping around the gasket area.This is starting to irritate me.

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Did you check the bowls gasket surface to see if its flat????? you might have to look there for the problem

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I can vouch for the aftermarket ignition system business NOT being easy to make money, or even a decent base living in lately. If you come up with a great idea, someone like Peter from Pro-Comp, an Austrailian company that tells everyone he makes the parts and assemblies in Australia, but has the complete distributors and ignitions made in China, will steal it from you. Peter has been sued by MSD and other manufacturers, and lost, for his less than honest dealings and "aquisition methods".

If you do get into building these ignition boxes, make sure you aren't stepping on anyone's patents and/or copyrights, and take the steps to protect your self and your invention. If it is a worthwhile setup, someone will be along to try to take/steal it for themselves.

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Yes.I thought I may have overtightened the bowls and warped them so I put a spare set of bowls on it.But I suppose if the bowls were warped,so are the carb bodies,right? No, I didnt take alot of time checking the surfaces.I work on cars for a living so I may be a little "ham fisted" when working on bikes.

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I have no intentions of trying to sell complete boxes. I agree it would be too much of a Pandora's box to make it a 'business'. My sole intention is to provide a viable alternative to high priced, shrinking supply of new OEM parts for these older bikes. The situation like the fork boots from the member in France is different than mine. I will be doing further testing and refining this design to insure a reliable replacement part. If it proves itself, I will make available the schematic, parts list, and all pertinent instructions to all who request it at NO cost. The construction is very simple and can be done in one evening by someone experienced in minor electronic work. For those who can't, you could probably have it done by one of those state run technical colleges as a lesson for someone learning a electronics career. It seems to me we have to find more alternative sources for the brand and model specific parts in order to keep riding the older Japanese machines. The German, British, and Italian machines seem to have a better base for parts and service still even for machines made 50 years ago. It is really impractical to 'back up' electronic type products from a home based enterprise, because even with OEM parts, no electronic or electrical device can really be guaranteed to work 5 minutes or 5 years from now. You would expect a factory item to work great, on the same token, you could expect this device to work better because of better quality, higher capacity parts than OEM. Truth is you can't, it is just the nature of the beast you have to live with. I would rather have a set of points to deal with for long travels on a bike, simply because you have a way much better chance of fixing it in the boonies than an electronic anything. On a bike you much more on your own than in a car. My plan for myself is to use the homebuilt unit as primary with the OEM box in place ready to reconnect IF this one fails. I have read too many other adaptations of other brands CDI units being used for years on totally different bikes, like the Honda C90's in Britain or a home-made from 'junk' parts running a critical generator for 1500 hours without a hiccup to not pursue this. Besides it is kinda fun, you know, first time you start a bike just brought back from a rusty oblivion to hear you hard work paying off. A re-birth of sorts for that old bike to once again give the owner FUN!!!!! Forgive me for carrying on so......

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I know what resurrecting bikes from the dead is all about, I just got my 1975 Kawasaki F9 running yesterday. What a blast to ride, torque and the ability to ride the bike as far as you want on the rear wheel, FUN. It inspired me to go dig the F11 out of the van, and start on it as well.

One of the 3 or 4 things I do for a living is electronic ignition conversions to stock points distributors for early cars. My twist on it is, mine are dedicated GM type HEI systems, NOT one of the drop in systems that are really problem prone, like the one Lane mentioned above. I also do dedicated MSD trigger only conversions, and have recently started to do specialty locked out feedback HEI conversions for Holley and their Commander 950 after market stand alone EFI systems.

That was the only reason for suggesting you protect yourself and invention If you were to go professional with it.

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...think I got a decent price on this rim/rotor?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... :IT&ih=017

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Sorry I brought up the question of, " post the circut diagram and/or build em to sell? " Youve had lots of fun investigating the copy of the CDi. Ya did good and hope it works out. Oh and thanks for the info on the head light!! Yes I remembered. Dofin

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Well here she is folks - for what it's worth. It's official name is RedZone. Just got it done yesterday and have put a whoping 9.9 miles on it. I hate the color. It was supposed to be a dark (Pall Mall) red and the S's and suzuki were originally silver but the looked crappy when applied. No contrast so I reordered in black - hence the 3 tone paint. I will probably sand it all down and redo it next winter, but right now it's time to ride!

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Isn't that what the kicker is for?

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Wow, hot hot hot!!! I Like it, LOTS.

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looks nasty
bet it sounds nasty too