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I always ran under the theory that more oil than less was better. There were a lot of people running the injection pump as lean as possible to prevent fouling of those weird looking pinpoint electrode plugs. I always thought it better to foul plugs than burn bearings and scuff pistons, if you had a two stroke and didn't carry spare plugs and tools you soon learned to. If you had the one with the distributor, it was also wise to carry a spare coil for the reluctor. In fact, I think I still have both the A and B boxes for the ignition around here somewhere.

In my minds eye, I see the throttle cable going into the injector but I don't remember any electrical connection. One way to make the injector pump run full out was to pull the cable that went into the housing so it would open up the injector. Then again, for some reason, a lot of people removed the injector pump and mixed the gas and oil, I used to see this mostly on RD's. When they went to the three coil ignition, I think they changed the injector pump as well so it very well could have been electrically controlled.

Hell, I still carry a spare injection computer in one car and a complete distributor and computer in my older car.

Putting that engine on a shifter cart or a snowmobile, now that would be cool and give Christie Todd Whitman apoplexy.

Putting that engine on a shifter cart or a snowmobile, now that would be cool and give Christie Todd Whitman apoplexy.

I actually saw a Kawasaki Triple on a shifter kart, and not too long ago. Didn't get to see it run, but I'll bet it was impressive. The owner of the kart had the Kawasaki gauge cluster mounted on his steering column... I could see that tach with the redline wayyyy over there to the right. I wanted a shifter kart *bad* for a month or so after spotting that triple-powered example, but even a used and abused kart chassis costs $$$ - it's cheaper to build a Toyota MR2 for SCCA SOLO competition. Now, if I could find a set of shifter kart chassis plans, I'd drag out the MIG welder and tube bender. All I've been able to find are basic "yard kart" plans. But yeah, it *was* cool!