carburettor problems?

[DEATH_INC.]

Have you put a new air filter in yet?You need to do this before getting too carried away with tuning it as it will affect the running quite a bit.
I've removed the resistors from the caps before and replaced them with bits of steel rod,no probs.
It sounds like you're doing well for your first big mechanical job

[erik]

Have you put a new air filter in yet?You need to do this before getting too carried away with tuning it as it will affect the running quite a bit.
I've removed the resistors from the caps before and replaced them with bits of steel rod,no probs.
It sounds like you're doing well for your first big mechanical job

Not a new filter, but it's got one in there now. I got it from the seller, apparently Red Baron told him it would need a new airfilter, and they sold him a 2nd hand but usable one from an FZR. So that's in it now.
Thinking about this, it doesn't really make much sense since I think Red Baron was doing all the servicing (it's what the seller told me), and I'd think if it didn't have any filter, they would have told him, and rather than selling him a filter, would have just put it in themselves.
I don't know, I suspect I'm not much good at telling if people are lying or not, but the seller seemed to be honest to me.

I read some newsgroup posts where a guy suggested taking the resistors out and just stretching the springs. I think someone said the only problem with removing the resistors was that it made more electromagnetic radiation that might affect the electronic ignition, or other sensitive electronic devices (like car alarms, one guy said he set off car alarms as he rode past them ).
I just got an NGK plug cap, rather than try to get a yamaha one. It's only got a 5kOhm resistor in it, but the guy at Mt Eden Motorcycles said it would be ok, and it seems to be.

Thanks. I haven't ever done much work on cars before, and never on bikes. But I've always been interested in mechanical stuff, I was pretty heavily into radio controlled planes for a while, so I guess being interested in mechanical stuff and having other experience with r/c planes must've helped with the bike. And reading lots: people suggestions, newsgroup posts, library books.