On Jun 10, 5:42*pm, zoot <aba...@ns-design.com> wrote:
> let me clear something up. i turn the choke on and start the motor.
> after a while it revs faster so i know to turn the choke off. since i
> put in regular unleaded it doesn't rev faster when it is warmed up.
That's odd, because regular is more volatile than premium. Premium
burns cooler than regular.
> i kind of expected to hear knocking or something but so far so good as
> far as i can tell. anyone else use regular?
My liquid-cooled Yamaha FZR1000 is designed to run on regular, but I
used premium for the first few years, thinking I was doing the engine
good.
So far as pinging goes, it has to be overheating to ping. The Yamaha
has a small capacity cooling system, only about 3~4 quarts of coolant,
and the engine temperature is all over the indicator dial on a hot
day.
Pinging can sound like anything from a loose valve to a loud *clank*!
as I shut the engine off when it's very hot, around 220 degrees.
My air-cooled GS1100 pings in heavy traffic after sitting at a stop
light idling on a hot summer day. I use premium in that bike. The oil
temperature on that bike can get up to 290 degrees on a hot day.
My air/oil-cooled GSXR750 uses premium gas. It's tuned to the ragged
edge of
pinging. I can tell that because it burns all the carbon of the top of
the piston directly under the spark plug.
If you suspect pinging from light tinkling noises in the engine while
you're accelerating in traffic after sitting at a stop light, you can
tell that the engine is pinging by removing a spark plug and looking
at the porcelin nose.
If there are little black specks like pepper burned onto the spark
plug, the engine is pinging.
If you see little silver balls of aluminum on the spark plug, you're
melting a hole in the piston. Don't ride until you fix the lean
mixture problem or change to a higher octane gasoline.
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