Wizard
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The short version is that my SRX seems like it losses power at the top end, but that leaves so damn many questions unanswered that I think I better tell the whole story! OK, I'd been riding a '98 SRX600 for about 8 years and I've messed with pretty much everything on it. Great sled, tons of fun. Once I made the mistake of letting wifey ride it and she loved it!!! So, you guessed it, I gave it to her and I got into an '01 SRX700. It's mostly stock with a Bender can. It sounds pissed off and frankly, I like it! But when I picked it up, there was one thing that bothered me; the guy had put reed spacers on and claimed they cleared up a hesitation. My 600 NEVER hesitated, but whatever, what could spacers hurt, right? Idk! But off I went. I got a few hundred miles in and it burned up #2. I tore it down only to find missing crank spacers on 2, also. Damn!!! So I bought a freshly rebuilt '01 block, cleaned my carbs, found the guy had mixed the main jets up a bit (he had the little one in #2), pitched the reed spacers and got her up and running early January. I've put maybe 300 miles on it since, but I'm just not liking it. I put a thunder shift kit on the primary and have it set around 4500 engage / 8200 shift. But even after dialing the power valves in last week, it just has no giddy up after 70mph. It's snappy as hell off the line; it gets to 60 in a hurry; it doesn't have a hesitation, but then it seems to fall off and I can hear that it isn't really in much of a power band. It just sounds sluggish. I guess what I'm wondering is where to look next. Should I change to '00 jetting and/or lean the needles a little or should I be looking into servo motor issues. It does open the PV's when I idle down under 1000, but is it possible that it isn't opening at high rpm's? Or if it's opening under 1000 rpm then it's working at high R's too? I've heard CDI's can go bad and not open the power valves, but I don't have a clue how to go about diagnosing that or whether this is an all or nothing scenario or if it could be opening some as I speed up but not all the way. I do know that if I unhook the servo it's worse, so it's definitely doing something. I need to see 110 on the lake if you know what I mean. Looking for some ideas specific to the '01, guys. Anyone else been through this?