Which type of engine is best?

Alright, so I'm new to the scooter scene and getting my katana next month on my birthday

I wanted to get opinions on what are best:
Air cooled

Liquid cooled

& fuel injected....

As far as I'm aware of the katana's started introducing fuel injection from 03 so mine must be fuel injected lol.

My dad assures me that the fuel injection is by far the best and most reliable. Just wanted to get you guys opinions on that?

 

The injections are the future for scooter tuning. But you need a tuning gameboy for the cdi, to make it worthwhile.

Liquid cooled piaggio engine would be the best choice,

 

they done a carb version till 2003 aswell so may not be injected. my mate had a 70cc kit on his and some stuff done to the injecters and top speed was still only 50mph just got there alot faster than us on our standard 50cc's

 

Faster acceleration is so much better than top speed anyways
It's quite true that katana's top speeds aren't great and I agree as I'm not bias, I know a few people with the WR models and the have such great acceleration just as standard bikess with no work done to them.

As ALOT of people get fucked over by the cops down in Ipswich, I'm just not going to bother getting it faster. I'll make it so the acceleration is much better though

 

Also the bike is a 54
late 04 so I believe it's fuel injected as far as I'm aware?

 

Look thru the hole in the side panel (one of the back ones with a triangle hole) of your bike, and look at teh head of the cylinder.

http://www.scooterwest.com/files/items/000/000/000/028/31/aprilia_ditech_Malossi.JPG

See if it looks like that one, if so its injection

or not it looks like

http://www.crossan.co.uk/acatalog/142_0149_mini.gif

Looks at the head not the cylinder

 

or just save time and see if its got a kick start or not :lol:

Di-tech have no kick start. carb have a kick start

 

see that's the thing...

When I went to look at the bike from the garage my dad said it had no kick just leccy lol

I know of a few people including safekyle who have the ay50WR
but I have the AY50R which is a totally different bike on the outside although I do not know if its different on the inside lol

When I look at my bike it has exactly the same exhaust as the aprillia SR50... if that's any help lol.

It's defiantly not a air cooled bike it's either F.I or LC, my dad tells me its F.I but then again I don't know anyone else with the EXACT same bike ;[

 

If it just has electric start its an injection :grin:

 

tytyty

is injection much better?

 

more MPG

but more expensive to fix, harder to tune.

 

oooo well thanks on the info mate :good:

My Dad does know a lot about all motors really but he's never had a scooter as his first bike was a fucking fizzy