If i cruise along and put my foot down a bit theres a strong smell of fuel from the carbs.

is this normal as i am in the stream of air from the filter?? Or have i got a problem.

Car runs fine maybe a little rich.


[Edited on 18/5/09 by Danozeman]

Sounds about normal

Take the filter off, then rev the engine up to around 3 or 4 thousand revs. Look in front of the trumpets, and you'll probably see a misty haze of petrol.

Scary, isn't it!

I don't know what sort of filter you have, but the smell of petrol went away when I fitted my airbox/filter thing.

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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Take the filter off, then rev the engine up to around 3 or 4 thousand revs. Look in front of the trumpets, and you'll probably see a misty haze of petrol.

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i get it to, i got worried a when it smelt it for the first time, i pulled over, got out truned it off, and start to look around, then started it up again, and did not see anythink, so i just put it down to the air filtre and bike carbs.

stuart

Iv got an itg sausage filter. Its quite nice smell to start with but i get fed up when im travelling.

I confess I find the strong smell of petrol a bit scary too, especially if I have to drive straight into the garage after a short blat.

Leaving the garage door open for a bit helps, and gives the neighbours something to talk about! ;-)

Francis

I thought nothing about it too....

THEN MY CAR CAUGHT FIRE!

the filter got soaked with the fine mist vapour, then a slight backfire coming off the throttle.... the rest is history....

it was about 60 miles from Le Mans 2008...

The standoff is one of the reasons why production bikes have quite complex airboxes and intake tubes etc. to contain it.

hi mate have a look at your plugs if thay are wet or sooty then,put a regulator on its fine now mine did that

is that what happens i ant driven my car yet so i dont know about it smelling when driving,i saw a fine mist but at that time my pump had to much presure so it was flooding,and thats when there was a mist and it was spitting.i carnt say i have noticed a mist now with the reg,il have a closer look in the morning
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[Edited on 18/5/09 by jpindy3]

My Indy needs a proper RR tune and I've put up with the fuelling issue until it goes in over the next couple of weeks. Has yours already been setup, Dan?

Have you left the trumpets on the carbs, as per the pic in your archive? they do help stop the stand off, also you should have 1.5 x the venturi diameter between the end of the trumpets and the filter or airbox.