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Iv heard different stories and different ideas from many people about how these motors were different. Were all the engines made the same? or was there a high performance engine fitted in some models? Im looking at geting an engine to rebuild so im not sure wat to look for. Cheers
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They are all the same. Black engines have an EFI engine of course, and the carby engine has a flywheel locating dowel plus air pump holes in the head (like a blue 173 in a VH). The only difference is basically the engine number (WL, VL, VK, WM etc) and th |
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The black 202 EFI heads were supposed to be slightly different. No air pump holes, sodium filled exhaust valves ( no idea why ), reshaped ports around the short turn radius, and back cut intake valves.
I have both types of heads, but have not tried t
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The Black head you may aswell call it a yella terra , there pretty good except for they have a tendency to crack .
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Ok so it looks like geting a black efi motor is the best bet then. Im already running the efi setup neways. Any major problems i should look for before i go buy one? cheers
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Make sure it's engine number starts with VK. If it's got VL it's not an original EFI engine.
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