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Post by greggkinney on Jun 15, 2017 15:46:13 GMT -5
i traded out a little atv engine work for a x6 pocket bike for the granddaughter.i dont know much about it so far. my brother in law had bought it for his step son and he daid the carb dumed all the gas out so he parked it and got the kid a coolster. im searching for an engine code on it now (without luck). the engine cover is orange, it is a sort if automatic lol a cvt driven chain? if anyone has any info on these please share. ill be posting something as i learn. hoping i can find a kik butt piston and carb like see for some of these little motors. oh yeah, its a 2t and i guess the float was stuck because it runs fine now withthe choke on. time to clean
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Post by 90GTVert on Jun 15, 2017 19:10:26 GMT -5
Those tiny little piston port engines are fun to play with, but the X6 also came in a 4T version. This is a rarity, but I'd recommend a 4T swap at some point if you enjoy it. I've owned a couple of cateye midbikes with the 2Ts. With a tuned pipe (I had a Sidewinder which I don't think is made anymore), pod filter, Walbro carb, squish/compression changed by not using a base gasket, exhaust port raised 1mm, and boost bottle... they'd go 30-something MPH. A friend did a PBU high compression race kit on his, added a reed block, and had the stuff I had. It didn't really go much faster and needed race fuel because it was 15:1 IIRC. I put a big rear sprocket and small front on mine for a bit and it was fun to do wheelies, but then it only went around 20MPH. They were fun for racing each other around small parking lots. I never messed with the CVT engines. Ours were all the single speed chain drives.
I got into the 4T midbikes after that and they were much more fun IMO. They use an engine like pitbikes, a Honda ripoff. We had a bunch of them and rode them on the street. I ended up swapping a 114cc (110cc with a big bore kit) into the 2T cateye and it would do about 50-55MPH even with 6" wheels and wheelie in all 4 gears. My X12 would do about 50-55MPH with a 110cc semi-auto swap. A friend's X12 did about 60MPH with just a sprocket swap with a 110cc manual. The 50s did about 35MPH. The 70s were in the 40s somewhere. Another friend had a 49cc X6 auto and it would do about 35 but was slower to get there than the semi-autos. Pretty much the manual is the fastest, the semi next, and the auto is the slowest in those.
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Post by lostforawhile on Jun 15, 2017 19:21:49 GMT -5
they are fun to play with OFF the dam road, not on it, they are not in any way street legal, and this kind of stuff is what pisses off cops, and they take it out on those of us riding legally, plus they are hard to see from the perspective of a car or truck, and you are asking to get run over. I'm sorry if I sound like a cranky old man, But I've been nearly hit repeatedly by people running stop signs on those. They are toys not real bikes or scooters, use them like toys, or use the serious ones for racing at the track. If you want to ride on the road get a full size legal machine.  |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jun 15, 2017 19:26:23 GMT -5
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Post by 90GTVert on Jun 15, 2017 19:28:03 GMT -5
they are fun to play with OFF the dam road, not on it, they are not in any way street legal, and this kind of stuff is what pisses off cops, and they take it out on those of us riding legally, plus they are hard to see from the perspective of a car or truck, and you are asking to get run over. I'm sorry if I sound like a cranky old man, But I've been nearly hit repeatedly by people running stop signs on those. They are toys not real bikes or scooters, use them like toys, or use the serious ones for racing at the track. If you want to ride on the road get a full size legal machine. I agree. We were all young when we rode on the street. We modified the ones we took on the road with rear lights so at least we could be seen and used to ride late at night on back roads in the country mostly. We did get pulled over and threatened with a lot of fines one day and finally called it quits. That's how I got into scooters. They were the closest things to the little bikes that were actually legal. |
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Post by lostforawhile on Jun 15, 2017 19:36:03 GMT -5
A couple of years ago, we had some dumb 15 year old kid run a stop sign right in front of an F350 truck, it didn't end well, and involved tarps, they are below the sight line of most trucks
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Post by greggkinney on Jun 15, 2017 20:35:01 GMT -5
just my luck i own a 4t scooter and a 2t pocket bike... lmao i cant ever get it right! the little red 2t is gona be for my granddaughter to cruise around our hood, private road littered with kids so people drive very sensible and she will be taught to also
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Post by spaz12 on Jun 15, 2017 21:22:55 GMT -5
I used to ride mine everywhere in town and got pulled over nearly every time I rode it. It had lights, blinkers and stop/tail light so it was considered legal. After figuring out that it was legal (so they thought) they would send me on my way. And they aren't really much smaller than a tao tao  |
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Post by ryan_ott on Jun 15, 2017 21:51:22 GMT -5
Seems like most of us had them. I also had my share of them, 2T of course. I put lots of miles on them in my teens between bicycles and mopeds.
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Post by ryan_ott on Jun 15, 2017 21:54:17 GMT -5
Kind of funny this comes up because I was just looking for one of these engine to put is a little kids power wheels.
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Post by greggkinney on Jun 16, 2017 3:34:39 GMT -5
Kind of funny this comes up because I was just looking for one of these engine to put is a little kids power wheels. lmao my oldest daughter had a suped up barbie jeep |
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Post by greggkinney on Jun 16, 2017 21:06:57 GMT -5
any idea what the fuel mix ratio would be? or a good starting point? my son in law put some of that $7 can pre-mix dummy fuel from lowes in it. lean condition and only takes gas with the choke closed
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Post by ryan_ott on Jun 16, 2017 21:16:14 GMT -5
I remember those carbs having adjustable needle valves. Try adjusting your mixture. 40:1 should be fine.
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Post by 90GTVert on Jun 16, 2017 21:20:05 GMT -5
I ran mine at 40:1 mostly. Make sure it's not leaking anywhere and that it has some sort of air filter on it. You can try adjusting the mix screw and see if it helps.
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Post by lostforawhile on Jun 17, 2017 8:19:06 GMT -5
Kind of funny this comes up because I was just looking for one of these engine to put is a little kids power wheels. now you are going to get me started, I see them thrown out all the time, and I have welding and fabrication skills, hmmm, go cart frame designed to fit under a power wheels, that can hit crazy speeds. single seat for my old ass lol |
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