My Piaggio Zip 50 4T Snail to "80cc thumper" :)

Coming together well. Wouldve thought youd be going for a gearup too with all these bits or am i missing something lol?

Painting the cases must have been a right pain on these cases aswell lol definitely looks miles better though

 

Cheers mate, tbh the painting isn't perfect (did it in the dark ), but it does the job, just got to do the transmission cover

Not doing a gear up as of yet, going to see what it does may do a gear up if it pulls well enough, what I really want is a proper digital ignition as this will open the doors to tuning the ignition better, just going to have to stick with the std 50/100 ignition until somewhere starts doing the kits for 4t engines.

got a few bits and bobs coming in the post......... wait till you see the airfilter

 

the 50cc kits will work on the 100cc, but a £300 ignition kit on a 4t is well :-S,
just get a lightened flywheel and outer pulley. i also know you can get a new woodruff key for the 4t that will make it run a little better

 

Standard flywheel isn't too bad for weight to be fair, have been toying with the idea of buying another one and having it machined to lighten it but would rather switch to a better ignition setup in the future when they become more available if it's £300 it's £300 I want to see what diffrence it will make, like I said though when there is more kits out there for it I'll buy one

 

Think i vaguely remember someone telling me the cdis in these can be somehow modded for what its worth. My knowledge on 4t ignitions stops there tbh lol..

 

they can, mainly it's the removal of the restrictor on them other than that theres not much more that can be done

mainly it's ignition timing I want control of I could in theory move the pickup points on the stator but it's probbally more trouble than its worth and wouldn't be very accurate compared to a proper programable kit

I can live with what it's got for now

 

i had a Italkit/Selettra race ignition on a low power bike and it made very little difference not realy worth the money
it was a 70cc MHRrep speedfight. it was a little better but as said the power gain as minimum.

 

Deliverys today....

 

best choke ever. i used to use polini ones but the stage 6 are much better looking and longer lasting

 

Glad to hear that there decent was going for a polini one at first, just glad I'm in control of the choke now not an annoying auto choke

 

cheers, rareness is a good plus point

 

any more updates

 

done a few things but only geting time here and there to get stuff done at the moment, bike is back in one piece now so really only needs tuning up etc

 

will be good to see a vid of it running am really tempted to get a zip

 

good work looks nice

 

Thanks mate, I'm gonna put a few more upto date pics up

 

No had much time lately to do much to the scooter, heres a few pics of how it looks at the moment...





Will get chance over easter to do somthing, will update in due course

 

Well as I promised a video, had some time today to get the bike into life. Going to get it setup to run propperly over the next few days.