Weird thing just happened, took off the casing and got down to the variator, took it all apart (didn't need an impact wrench, just used pliers to hold the pulley and used a normal hand wrench to get the nut off). Tipped the slider weights out and put them back in (couldnt find a variator washer).... put it all back together and then tested it on the road, now it is back to normal and goes to 35mph before hitting the rev limiter instead of 43mph.
Not sure what could have caused this but I assume that the sliders were not in properly.
Now it will go to 8000RPM and get to 43mph. Still I think this could be improved, I have 2 unrestricted CDI's that work on it, but one sends it flying to 11k RPM and the other sends it past the 12k mark. If I kept the one with the rev limit at 8k to not damage the crank, would a kit do anything?
Would a racing variator do anything if it can only go to 8k?