Just the photo. Reed block is perfect.is it the photo,or is the reed block chewed also?
I understand they're a wear item, but this ski never sees sustained WOT and has minimal water injestion and not that many hours. I've had carbon techs when I ran a 701 and after many more hours and much more water injestion than this and there wasn't much wear.Reeds are a wear item and they wear out quicker when you're putting water through your engine.
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Why would you pull motor to change out reeds?I understand they're a wear item, but this ski never sees sustained WOT and has minimal water injestion and not that many hours. I've had carbon techs when I ran a 701 and after many more hours and much more water injestion than this and there wasn't much wear.
IMO 5 gallons of oil isn't a crazy amount to go through in a season and having significant reed wear before the seasons over is crappy. I don't wanna have to pull the motor every season to swap reeds lol
I must just have an engine configuration that eats vf3s.
Stock 760 maniThey look like they are being slowly eroded away by something. What manifold are you running?
Idk, never taken apart a 62t intake in my ski before so I never really paid attention to how doable it is with the motor in the ski.Why would you pull motor to change out reeds?
Not filledI was thinking maybe the "lumps" on the bottom of the intake are filled in and it tightened things up enough that the tips of the reeds might be touching?
The fingers are not filled on this setup. Reeds are bolted up to a stock Oem 760 intake maniThat it typical of what we call Flutter. Its caused by turbulance coming off the crank. A common solution is to install reed spacers. Some manifolds like the Boysene and others, have the reeds spaced back from within the manifold, so a spacer is not needed. What manifold are they bolted to?? You also stated that your cases were epoxy filled?Im guessing you mean the fingers are filled?? What this does, is reduce volume, but increase air speed thru the reeds.
Typically done in high rpm motors. Unfill maintains volume, aids in low end performance. Reguardless what option you prefer, the reed pedals take the brunt of the added flutter. Carbon reeds wear faster in high flutter, than say Boysene pro reeds which are all glass. Bottom line, there is no right or wrong to this. It Is how you or your builder chooses to have the power delvered. Its how the recipe of parts compliment each other!
Ski Ya, Paul
The fingers are not filled on this setup. Reeds are bolted up to a stock Oem 760 intake mani
That it typical of what we call Flutter. Its caused by turbulence coming off the crank.
Ski Ya, Paul