66E Conversion

I'm interested in how you chose the shape/dimensions of the manifold. Is there any theory behind it, or is it more of a "this size hole connected to that size hole, try to make it smooth and kinda look right" situation.
 
looking good. I am excited to see this build come along. I hope to be able to ride my RIP with a 66e /927 in a week or 2. I had hand surgery in June and the healing process sucked... was slow and painful. No riding for me.
That sucks, I actually just rode yesterday for the first time in a month also because of stitches in my knee, you would have thought I would have made more progress lol. Have you ridden that ski at all yet? From the few videos I can dig up it looks like the 927 made decent power. There seems to be very mixed reviews on the 66e setups.

I'm interested in how you chose the shape/dimensions of the manifold. Is there any theory behind it, or is it more of a "this size hole connected to that size hole, try to make it smooth and kinda look right" situation.
Almost 100% that situation lol, I basically lofted the two holes the size of the port on the 66e cylinder to the size of the hole in the pfp manifold, the one thing I did do was keep the path length between each cylinder and the outlet equal. Honestly once you do that, and keep the bend radii large enough to not be a crease, but also fit inside an sj hull(barely), there's not much option to how the shape turns out.
 
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That sucks, I actually just rode yesterday for the first time in a month also because of stitches in my knee, you would have thought I would have made more progress lol. Have you ridden that ski at all yet? From the few videos I can dig up it looks like the 927 made decent power.

yes I have been on the ski several times before the surgery. I had problems with the carbs leaking fuel at idle and loading up the motor. I think i have that fixed now.
The motor does make great power, but i was never able to really tune due to the fuel issue
the motor shakes so violently at idle fuel dribbles out of the high speed jet,, so it loads up and is impossible to tune.
This is a problem with the 66e motors. Once you get the carbs set the motors should be like every other one out there.
 
yes I have been on the ski several times before the surgery. I had problems with the carbs leaking fuel at idle and loading up the motor. I think i have that fixed now.
The motor does make great power, but i was never able to really tune due to the fuel issue
the motor shakes so violently at idle fuel dribbles out of the high speed jet,, so it loads up and is impossible to tune.
This is a problem with the 66e motors. Once you get the carbs set the motors should be like every other one out there.
I really wanted to put gp1300r throttle bodies on it and run a megasquirt, as that would give me programmable ignition as well. I figgured I would try to get the thing running before tackling that, but sounds like maybe its smarter to try for that from the start
 
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Blaze the path brother That! That would be super cool, I have always wanted to do a Megasquirt on something. How do you plan in making it water resistant?
Then show us simpletons how to do it ourselves
 
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I have one of those I bought from McMaster a while back, it was way bigger than I need. But I think they are only like 30bucks
 
HAWT.

Is there no water jacket on that thing?
There's as much as I could really get away with, I figure I'll run it and if its too hot I'll try to do some tricky stuff to add more. I kinda think even with just that much cold water in it it should stay pretty cool with how fast aluminum transfers heat. Also I wonder on say a factory pipe maifold, how much does the water upstream of the fittings really flow anyway. I kinda feel like its stagnant, it just fills and the water pretty much goes straight from the fittings to the cylinder. We'll find out though lol
 

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Not a whole lot of info available but u might be able to reach out to this guy. Ive thought about a mega squirt based EFI system so many time but you just add so much extra stuff to break and a FW freestyle ski just really abuses parts.

 

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I’m really curious how the O2 situation worked. I swore I’ve read an O2 sensor isn’t accurate in a 2 stroke since there is, by design, so much unburnt fuel and it varies so greatly based on RPM.
 
I've seen that they get used on two stroke snowmobiles and seen some examples of people doing megasquirt projects on two strokes (usually motorcycles) that use a wideband, not a lot but there are some out there.... but I'd be more concerned about the nature of a freestyle ski is there is no steady state, it's purely quick transients, so it seems questionable to me that it would be very useful.

Similar situation with EGT's and plug reading.

But I'd love to hear about somebody doing it and how it works out.
 
I've seen that they get used on two stroke snowmobiles and seen some examples of people doing megasquirt projects on two strokes (usually motorcycles) that use a wideband, not a lot but there are some out there.... but I'd be more concerned about the nature of a freestyle ski is there is no steady state, it's purely quick transients, so it seems questionable to me that it would be very useful.

Similar situation with EGT's and plug reading.

But I'd love to hear about somebody doing it and how it works out.

I agree. The short throttle chops and constant loading and unloading of the drivetrain certainly poses a big tuning headache. Super cool project though and nice work on the manifold. I'm excited to see how this project unfolds.
 
I was thinking I'd use alpha-n and I could basically treat it like a carburetor at first that you don't have to turn any screws on to change jets, and get the benefit of programmable ignition timing as well. I think you guys are right about skis not being the best candidate for efi, being a watercraft you wont hit nearly as many combinations of load and engine speed that you could with say a motorcycle, and that 3d tuning capability is one of the first and foremost benefits.
I did see that efi kit a while ago and checked back a couple times to see if there were any updates. Is that guy still making them? Was there ever a review of it posted? I might reach out but would be surprised if he was willing to lend too much advice if he's still trying to sell the kits.
 
Wiseco use to make 90mm pistons for this. They were custom. Back in mid 00’s many guys had gp1500’s. I had at least 5 or those pistons.
groupk Still has 87mm
also look at Polaris large bore sled pistons. the sledshop? Carl’s cycle too
 
To be clear I was questioning if a wideband would be helpful, efi could have big advantages, I suspect it could respond to quick changes in throttle position better than carbs, especially BIG carbs, and no worries about dribbling from vibration, super short intake tract, those seem like potential big advantages. No idea if that will actually work in reality. If you're not familiar with x-tau accel enrichment I would be looking into that.
 
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