Dyno Testing Carburetors ~ The Road To Horsepower Ep3 Carb Showdown

On today's episode of The Road to Horsepower we are doing a Carburetor Showdown!!! We will be putting the stock performance jetted carb against the VM22 Clone, VM22 Genuine, and Mikuni TM24. Which one do you think will come out on top?

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00:00 Intro
00:47 Carb showcase
01:56 Stock Carb w Performance jet test
02:45 Stock Carb Dyno results
03:33 Mikuni VM22 Clone test
04:14 Mikuni VM22 Dyno Results
04:43 VM22 Genuine Test
05:21 VM22 Genuine Dyno Results
05:47 TM24 Test
06:24 TM24 Dyno Results
06:33 Carburetor Dyno Results Breakdown
08:16 $ Cost $ Comparison
08:58 Outro
09:33 Amsoil Affiliate

[thatsmypurseidontknowyou]

These videos are so valuable. This is gunna put to rest all the debates on what "stages" do what .

Seriously, THANK YOU Red Beard... this is gunna help future builds/new builders immensely

[jimm]

This Road to Horsepower series is the greatest thing to happen to building these engines. Seriously.

[lizzard]

I'm getting the 24!!! Yeah man keep the secrets flowing!!! Thanks for this series folks! I really mean it. The community needed this.

[eddiesheeran]

This series is exactly what I always wanted to see! Extremely informative & entertaining! I just built up my second minibike with a Predator 212 & I'm loving it! The acceleration on this tiny MMB80 frame is so much fun! I've done all the small things to maximize performance, so I'll be looking for more go-fast parts soon. It's so great to see actual dyno pulls after all the mods. No more guessing! Everyone has a huge leg-up now & I think that's awesome.

[jakedrew]

Yay for the Chi'kuni carb results! Thanks for doing these tests. We all appreciate it

[nathanlayne]

I think this series of videos is the best thing I've seen in a while. Easy to understand with results in black and white. Excited to see where you go with it, hope to see some cam tests in the future. Would also love to see how a CDI would affect the power.

[DustinApple]

🍿just sitting here waiting on the 999 duromax upgrades.

[CODOutdoors]

Love this series! It's amazing that 1 single part can make such a difference!

[briancasey]

Hi Greg, Brian from Florida here, really enjoying ALL of your videos especially your road to horsepower series. This series is answering alot of questions your average enthusiast may have but I would like to respectfully point out that the vm22 knockoff carb also known as the chikuni (chineese version of the Japanese mikuni) has an inside diameter of 26mm. Not 22mm. Like the original. This may explain the hp diffrence when compared to to the original. Lots of love here from Florida and God bless you too!

[RickC]

I'm enjoying your road to horsepower videos. Keep it up. 👍👍

[freedomforourfallen]

Your killing from one red head to the other. Thanks for this man. Really helps thinking about it in numbers you can tell people

[justincollins]

The best advice on the web. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[rracerguy]

Back in the day i built 4cyl Briggs kart engines(restricted and unrestricted) I specialized in carbs and have ton of hours flowing carbs and wet flow bench and modify carbs . Your biggest gain / restriction is the carb period !!!!. Your test doesn't show the whole carb story you need to graph A/F. Great job testing and sharing your Thanks, BobG

[MrBootre]

420 seems like the next logical test mule, lets see it!

[XdCharge]

This is the series that I always wanted to see! I have a Yerf Dog that has a hemi 212 on it with billet rod/flywheel, 265 cam, 22 lbs valve springs, clone VM22, and header with rlv muffler. The thing rips and I've wondered what kind of power it makes.

[donhollio-]

Thank you. I have a 212cc that I'm doing a slight upgrade to, carb, govenor removed and springs. Not looking for any RPM past 4500 so I'm keeping the stock flywheel since I was the electric start. With gearing and such I'll be getting 10k RPM at the water turbine. My son is 7yo so the mini jet boat should move along at a reasonable speed. We'll see how it goes this summer! Who knows maybe I'll make a YT video of it on the water. Thanks for your videos, I'm glad to be on the right track.

[rckworthy]

Not only does the flat-slide carb give the best peak power by far, the output is also the most consistent without the flat spots in the curve like all the other carbs. On top of that, it's making peak power way up high in the RPM range, which makes me think this carb will have the most headroom for adding more power mods down the road.

[mikesbarn]

Absolutely love this series. Thank you so much.

[SurlyMike]

Good stuff! It looked like one of those was running a little fat compared to the others, it also put up smaller numbers. Can't wait for more.

[manoffaith]

I’m lovin these comparisons on your new Dyno.