A week or so ago CM wrote asking about operating temp differences left and right. Why does the rhs run hotter?
I’ve been out of town. Away from my computer. Exiled. Disconnected. But not deleted. Basically this is the answer I sent him.
Over the years I’ve heard many postulate. From aerodynamics to exhaust placement.
When you look at the engine design you see all the mechanical parts are focused to the right. As is oil flow.
Hot oil is sucked up through the pump. Slowed at the filter.
Mechanical action from the tacho, oil pump, primary and clutch all add frictional heat.
Aluminium is a good conductor. Heat gravitating upwards meets that from the combustion chamber and exhaust ports.
To the left we have the generator. In an air cell. Dry. Different thermal properties.
Allows the left to act more efficiently and effectively as a heat sink.
When Yamaha built the carbs they did so symmetrically. Jetting specs both the same. Each operating in different thermal environments. Built in imbalance. With appropriate feedback loops.
If you have adjustable needles it is possible to richen the right hand carb by raising the needle.
XSJohn, rip, ground needles with different tapers as a set. Left and Right. The canadian needles apparently are similar. Replace needle jets and jet needles together as a pair.
John also built wings or foils to deflect airflow over the cylinders.
Others install oil coolers.
Today there are many diagnostic techniques. Years ago I had an interesting conversation over too many beers with an Australian Naval NCO. Have never been fond of military types. Too rigid. Thinking actively suppressed. Later I was to learn the corporate world is, in theory, no different. In practise, a lot worse. Establishment meeting punk – the shock was mutual. He was a vibration analyst. Spent his time listening to machines sing. No different really to listening to your motor through a long solid screwdriver. He had a lot to say about the internal workings of Australia’s navy.
I would like to see a series of Infra Red pictures of an XS650 motor running. Done in a resolution capable of differentiating temp gradients within the 80-300° range. You would see some definite nodes on the right and fronts associated with temp assymmetry.
I come from the southern hemisphere. Live in the north. Apart from north and south there are other differences too. Here they drive on the wrong side. When you pull the bath plug, flush the toilet, water runs anticlockwise-the coriolis effect. I wonder what this does to other physical gradients .
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