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Some feel the LED bulb replacements are not bright enough w/o going over to an actual LED system. You may run into slight problems with your turn signals, w/o a the proper digital blinker unit, and so far, I've only seen one LED Headlight conversion that I would consider.

I've replaced my Brake/Tail light with the LED bulb replacement and don't have a problem with it.

The headlights work a little different. LED lights tend to diffuse in all directions, instead of focus down the road. While oncoming traffic can certainly see YOU better, it is questionable whether you can see any further down the road, or if all the diffusion actually serves to "night blind" the rider to a certain extent.

A lot of people fuss with the headlight upgrades, then settle for aux driving lights, that run DC directly off the battery, that they can manually turn on and off via a switch.

Yep. That's the one Al. Just came in Bronze instead. Still looks really good . Hope you do give one a try. I'd like to know if the disc's are interchangeable with the SuperTrapp exhaust disc's.

This is a performance intake. the pipe that comes with it is larger than the one with the OEM air box. Maybe not as much as a foam filter attached directly to the carb, but it does suck lots of air. When I first took it out, dashed up to 25 like a bat out of, well you know, then of course, fell right on it's face, like you just reached down and turned it off, until I backed out of the throttle.

To compensate, I've drilled 3 holes in my OEM exhaust, and turned my A/F adjustment 3 full turns out. I'll need to up jet to an 85 or 88. In the mean time, I got to thinking.

On a lark or stroke, one or the other, I came up with a stretch "Skiers" type of winter headband. The Elastic type with sort of flaps on the sides to cover your ears. Twisted it over once on itself and slipped it over the cannister disc's. Presto! Enough flow restriction to make it run like a shot w/o so much as a bobble. My accelerator pump had been giving me a little "miss" at about 15mph. No more!

The Mod on the exhaust makes it only marginally louder, but lower and throatier. And YES you can hear the carb resonating through the disc filter. Sounds like there's something definitely going on there

Here's what I ended up with. I know, but it works!

This thing ran fine for 8 months.

If the orifice in the main appears smaller than the pilot, then it has to be clogged. Just to make me happy. Soak it over night in carb cleaner and run a wire or something through there and see if that doesn't open it up. Heck, soak and clean them both for that matter, and since your there take another good look at the needle and float assembly, and the diaphragm.

At that point you'll almost have run through carb cleaning 101, if you haven't already, go ahead. Whats to be lost. There are a lot of ports and holes that have to open in the carb and the only way to know they are open is to get some cleaner or air or both physically through them.

You said you have the A/F screw turned all the way in clockwise, and your still running rich. Did you ever turn that screw more than three turns counter clockwise? You might also have turned it too far clockwise or to the lean side and bent or broken the needle, if you cranked on it too hard.

Got the filter in today! Not too bad time frame for an Import part. Thanks again to JR for the iron man google work.

I scanned that guys site until I found the air filter, some 20 or 30 pages in myself. Had I not known it was in there, I'd given up the search long before that, so yeah. Thanks!

Everything looks good. I hooked the Inlet pipe to the carb with a couple band clamps and a 2 1/2" piece of radiator hose. Pipe fits nicely and comes out right where it needs to be. I can use one of the old airbox bolt holes, and the rear CVT case bolt to mount and secure the disc air filter.

I should have some pics uploaded tomorrow, and an idea of how it's going to run.

Good your making progress. Don't get frustrated. I had the same thing happen to my scoot. Its very common.

Take the down time to do some very important things for both your bike and yourself. We all stand by a very important creedo > Has this bike been PDI'd. That is Post Delivery Inspection. This should be done to every Scooter bought, used or new.

There is an extremely good how to on this in the Tech section. If you can't find it tell us and someone will post you a link.

PDI is basically going through your scooter, checking and changing out the cheap OEM fuel and vacuum lines, with good quality rubber. Replacing fuel filter. Visually and physically checking wiring and grounds, for continuity and bad connections. And More!

Depending on how thorough of a job you want to do, tightening and applying loctite, to nuts and bolts, sanding and painting bad welds or rust, applying silicon to body mounting clips, to prevent loss.

I'm really only touching on some of the main things that a PDI includes. The real value in doing this, is you of course head off many potential problems, but most of all...You learn more about your scooter, than you probably thought possible. Most repairs you can do for yourself. Working on scooters can be challenging, but it is far from rocket science, and well within anyone's capability who wishes to invest the time, and has the capability of baking or following a recipe

Well I'll certainly defer to the experts.