I've been contemplating over the different needles vs pilot jets sizes myself lately, and it's hard to wrap my head around it.

So, let me see if I have gotten this right. If have 42 pilots, and have a flat spot in the mid-range, I can use a different needle to fix it, like a TBS or thruxton, or I might shim my stock needles. I could ALSO keep the stock needles and go up on the pilot jet and the result would pretty much be the same? Same result different flavor?

Or could changing the pilot end up making you to rich when idling, but be perfect in the mid-range, so to fix just the mid-range you swap the needles, and low end with the pilot, and the top end with the mains aren't that much affected? (I now they are affected but perhaps not my THAT much…)

Sorry for the thread-jacking but I but thinking about this much lately.


Black '07 Speedmaster FTW!