Hey guys,
My first post here, although I've been following for a few months now.

I just picked up a completely stock 96' F3, and I'm thinking about throwing on a full Yoshi exhaust, as well as a K&N air filter (although I'm less sure on the filter).

My question is, if I do this, will I require a rejet? If so.. is this fairly simple to do, or should I rely on someone with more experience? Honestly, I don't know much about carburetors, but do feel it's in my best interest to learn.

-J

 

nice...looks clean...i want to know the answer to this as well...thanks!

 

It would not hurt to rejet the carbs at all.

As far as doing the work i bought a haynes manual and dove in head first, learned a lot the first time and i could do it blindfolded now.
If you feel confident enough just take your time and do it yourself.

 

"Require?" Absolutly not. All of those upgrades are fully independant of each other. However, why not do it, anyway? Given that you're clearly interested in performance gains, and handy with a wrench, you're going to want to do it eventually, so just do it now.

It'll probably take you a good hour to get the carbs out if it's your first time through. It's not mechanically difficult, you just spend a lot of time figuring uot which hoses to pull, and "How the HELL am I supposed to get a screwdriver in THERE?!" Grab the service manual, it has a nice step-by-step walkthrough.

Once the carbs are out, you just pop the bowl covers off, unscrew the old jets, and screw in the new ones. Done.


Once you're all finished with everything, you'll have the exact same freakin bike that I have. Thanks for taking away my pretty unique snowflake.


Well, performance-wise. I still got rid of the mirrors and those ugly eyeball turn signals Honda seems to like:

https://cbrforum.com/forum/how-mechanical-40/howto-install-flush-mount-rear-turn-signals-your-old-f3-95720/

And threw on an LED kit for good measure. But for all I know, my bike could be ugly as hell now.

 

Well, not to worry. Earlier today I actually just decided to go with the RS-3 slip-on instead. Aside from saving some $$, which is huge right now, I'm about to move a week from today, and figured I'd spare any risk of not having my bike ready. As much as I would've loved the extra performance, I think I'll be alright.

Thanks for the input though.

 

I don't want to thread jack but this has to do with carb jetting. I bought my 98 f3 a few weeks ago. Its my first bike so I don't know much about them. Anyways, today I started taking things apart as I want to completely repaint it. I now see that the bike has a k&n filter. It has a two brother pipe as well. Is there a way that I can check to see if the jets have been changed out? without having to do all the hard work? Since this is my first bike I don't know if it feels fast or not. for me it does and I havn't even gone above 10k rpm. any input would be great. Should I check the plugs? will that show if its running lean or rich?

 

Nope; the only way to know is to pull them and check. There's a ton of non-jet things you can do to increase performance, and each bike acts differently, so you can't just get on and go "Oh yeah, that's jetted." the filter is by no means a giveaway, as any self-respecting bike \ car owner uses K&N, modded or not.

Your exhaust is a good clue, as nobody intelligent would spend that much money on an exhaust, but not bother with jets. However, that could have been their next project and they never got the money for it, so you got it without jets. Crack her open and look.