Drip Tray Victories
PX200 PROBLEM - FLAT SPOT - HELP !!!!!!! (Post 938890)
Let me start by nót doubting the experience of those whom cured a flat spot/hesitation by fitting a lacking one on their scoot.
Imo it was designed as a cover of the access to the cabling. Call it a hatch.
The way it is shaped it is though tony keep an occasional drop from the cables. The slightest bit more will run off when negotiating hills.
Same goes for crap coming in with the intake air.
The air flow from above is totally chaotic, turbulent and the chamber in the frame is like a still air box and particle trap with sóme centrifugal effect aiding gravity.
Any oily residue on the tray will ´trap´ some crap. If missing the residue will be at the bottom and particles will add to the grim there.
A missing lid will enlarge the volume of the air chamber. Since the air tumbling in is chaotic, more volume will most likely only have some stabilising effect on the pressure and as there is no moving air mass column as though the bellows.
Some perspective:
The opening surface of the 24/24 op my P200E is 450 mm2.
The opening surface of the entry hole at the top of its frame is 1350 mm2.
This is the ´bottle neck´ and three times as large as the carb opening.
The entry of the VMC venturi is 1800 mm2, ergo four times the carb.
I can not see it having any issue with intake air flow before the air filter housing.
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