Going to 2 carbs on my 550L

[jbthomp]

I just don't understand what you are trying to accomplish by going to 2 carbs? It won't perform any better if at all. There are thousands of bikes running around right now with 4 CV mikuni carbs on them and the work great. You just have to learn how to clean them correctly and set them up so they will run right. Oh and by the way im not an old 'fogey' im 26. Im going to tell you right now after the little rant you just had good luck getting anyone here to help you. Didn't your mom tell YOU that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar? Good luck on your project.

[tkent02]

Why not put on a set of four VM carbs?

I have VM carbs for 550s coming out of my ass, many complete sets of good ones.

[tkent02]

This just in - The ONE TRUE GOD, JEHOVAH, did NOT engineer the Suzuki GS!!!!!

Oh, I get it now.

[JEEPRUSTY]

a 1930s single barrel Rochester carb from a chevy straight 6 would work.
So would a pair of bsw30s as they would flow enough and would be considerable narrower than the ones you are using now.

Are you a machinist?

[jbthomp]

I have VM carbs for 550s coming out of my ass, many complete sets of good ones.

I think they have medication for that

[SocialAnomaly99]

This is gonna be a tough project man. I'm with you on doing something different/odd just for the hell of it. However, if you only use 2 carbs and expect to get the same performance, you're going to need 2 BIG ASS CARBS. I'd look for some VM carbs on ebay though. If you're into fabricating stuff, try to figure out a way to get some VM26 carbs off of a 750 to work. I picked up a set of VM26 for $130 not too long ago, and there are all kinds of them on ebay still.
I know I'm not much help as far as giving advice on running 2 carbs instead of 4. And as for the "haters" on this forum go, it sucks they don't wanna help and that they weren't the nicest (us motorcycle riders tend to be opinionated jerks most of the time FYI), but they are right for the most part.
The engineers at Suzuki and the other 3 leading Jap bike producers, were all originally fighter jet engineers. After WWII, R&D on fighter jets in Japan got the kibosh and all those genius engineers got jobs developing the fastest, most well built bikes of the time. 69 years later, those carbs and engines are still holding up and carb technology really hasn't advanced that much since
Fuel injection is really the only alternative to having 4 carbs on a 4 cylinder bike. but now you're talking electronic controls, fuel injectors, headaches, computer thinggys, programming some micro potato chip or something... Who the hell wants to deal with all that though?
Pop a wheelie!

[tom203]

"...You Old Farts should remember what your mamas taught you about not saying anything at all. "

Hey, how do you know we are old farts ? And my mama taught me that it's no use beating a dead horse.