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Many of you will be thinking duh, but I thought EFI was the end of needing to sync a bikes carbies. No carbies = no carby syncing. Right? Wrong. EFI throttle bodies are subject to the same need for vacuum balancing as carbies are. My bikes idle was steadily getting worse and I think I know why.
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I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

What's wrong is you're using a carb balancer on an EFI bike. You need one that looks identical to what you have except has EFI BALANCER written on the backing board. EDIT: ;).

Nah look forwards to seeing if this helps. Bleed screw wrong on #3 but ok on everything ese?
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I use a Morgan Carbtune....for carbs as well as the DFI on the turbo.

Your pic above shows your throttle bodies are not far out off sync...so this may not be your problem.
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There is every reason that EFI throttles should be balanced just as carbs need it - same symptom, same reasons, same solution, same procedure...

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