Jetting, plug reading EGT

nst115

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Finally rode with my benders and egt gauges for the first time. I have a ataac so I'm supposed to jet for coldest temp at base altitude which is 3000'.
Here is pics of my plugs from after the ride.
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I think they look good but my EGT got me alittle worried a few times. I don't know what kinda numbers I should be wanting to see.
I had a 10ish mile trail back from the real snow yesterday and so we were cruising along about 5-6k rpm egt was around 1100, I decided to speed up so held it at 7-7.5k for awhile and egt quickly climbed to almost 1400.
That worried me alittle so I backed off again. Anybody know if I should be worried about that number or change needles or something to richen it up abit there? At WOT I was seeing 1250ish mostly.
 

Current carb settings.
Jets 150
Pilots 60
Fuel screw 1.5
Needles unknown. I've never taken that apart.

I was having a part time bog when quickly stabbing the throttle. A blip or two and it'd go fine...

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Pugs look pretty good to me. If you see those higher egt numbers again hit the killswitch and check the plugs. That will tell you better how they look at that moment. Note what throttle position you're at if it happens also. Egts are a good tool once you know what your setup runs at when you're jetted right. But need to get dialed in the old fashion way first like you're doing
 
I'd probably take the fuel screws out another 1/4 turn. Making them at 1 3/4. That was where my 700 redhead was happy.


Edit: I will add that I like to be.... More than safe, as far as jetting goes.
 
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