my bike - 79 cb650

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    1. gilesclement (37 months ago | reply)

      what jets did you go to with the pods and did you do anything about the exhaust? Cool looking bike, I've got an 81 which is going under a slow transformation.

    2. i like the weekend (37 months ago | reply)

      hey man, for the cb650, the 79-80 carbs are "piston" type carbs and the 81-82 carbs are "CV" type carbs. They unfortunately are completely different carbs with different stock jetting, so the jetting that i'm running will be completely different than what you would have to do with the 81-82 carbs.

      but... just for reference, this is what my set-up is:

      set-up with regular air filter is:
      main - 90
      slow - 35
      mixture screw - 1.5 turns out

      set-up with pod filters is:
      main - 120
      slow - 42
      mixture screw - 2 turns out

      i'm also still running the stock exhaust.

      with this set-up, my bike runs pretty damn good. it took me over a month of trial and error with different jetting combinations, and this is the best set-up so far. tuning an old bike like this with pod filters is a pain in the ass!!!!!

      just know that, with pods, it will never run as smooth as it did with stock set-up.

      hope all this helps!

    3. gilesclement (37 months ago | reply)

      awesome, thanks!

      I'll probably leave mine stock till the winter and then do a total teardown, repaint and cafe out.

    4. hnknwav (36 months ago | reply)

      Real clean looking bike!

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    6. Rusty Knuckles (28 months ago | reply)

      Looks bitchin!

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    8. Rusty Knuckles (28 months ago | reply)

      For the jet settings on mine I gotta trouble shoot a few things still, but I am running two turns out as well on the mixture, but also just installed a full carb rebuild.

    9. 816kcken (14 months ago | reply)

      Where did you get your pods from?

    10. i like the weekend (14 months ago | reply)

      i got them off ebay. emgo 48mm pod filters.
      but im actually running velocity stacks now.

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    12. dustkustoms (6 months ago | reply)

      Are you running the same jet set up with Velocity stacks?

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