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i have a gremlin to chase down in my bike and am looking for suggestions to a possible cause of issue. I don't want to chase my tail on this one. and would appreciate the suggestions of some of you sv vets
Issue: while warming my bike up for round 1 this season, one of my team mates for some reason decided to point a laser temp gage at my exhaust headers. for some reason my front exhaust header was toping out at at temp of 120. but rear was at 350. we tore in to the bike cleaned carbs, changed coil, checked spark plug and compression. all good (compression was low but not too low 120s).
we couldn't find issue so i raced it as is. i noticed no noticeable difference from last year so i assumed that it has been this way since i brought it last year. i'm not getting passed in the middle of the straight by other sv's so I'm thinking it cant be too underpowered.
I raced the bike in round 2 as it is also. No smell of unburned fuel, only miss fires in two places on track. at apex of 1 and out of 10. other than that no signs of fuel not being burned so m assuming that cylinder is firing. But I would like to fix it or know this is why before i ruin the engine, or possibly hurt my self if it locks up. Please share any ideas anyone has as to a cause.