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**fluentdesigns** · 01-24-2009, 11:32 AM

Question: What happens when you take an old Honda Monkey bike, complete with its 50cc four-stroke powerplant, and swap its old-school carbs for Honda's modern PGM-FI computer-controlled fuel injection? Answer: Exactly 3.4 hp and 252 mpg at a constant 18.6mph. That represents a 10 percent improvement in both fuel efficiency and power over the older version, and emissions have also been drastically reduced thanks to a modern catalytic converter in the single exhaust.

The first street-legal Z50, otherwise known as the Monkey, was launched back in 1967 and has grown up to become an icon of sorts to the Honda faithful. Since it uses the same single-cylinder powerplant as the ridiculously popular Super Cub, which was just recently endowed with computer-programmed fuel injection itself, reliability is virtually guaranteed. As much as we'd love to tell you that it's headed to America, it isn't. Just 4,000 units are slated to be built, and all of them will stay in Japan. Pity.

Dr.Wreck · 01-24-2009, 11:37 AM

cool concept, un-cool that we don't get any.

AHPminis · 01-24-2009, 11:39 AM

The more important thing will be being able to get a hold of that fuel injection system at some point down the road!

AHPminis · 01-24-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by shawnbassett26

I believe there is a company that already offers the fuel injection in Japan. Big bucks though.
~Shawn

I could imagine, but hopefully it will start to trickle down from Honda and making it more affordable and adaptable to larger engines. We will see I guess, I am sure there is plenty of discussions on this already.

Z · 01-24-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by fluentdesigns

Question: What happens when you take an old Honda Monkey bike, complete with its 50cc four-stroke powerplant, and swap its old-school carbs for Honda's modern PGM-FI computer-controlled fuel injection? Answer: Exactly 3.4 hp and 252 mpg at a constant 18.6mph. That represents a 10 percent improvement in both fuel efficiency and power over the older version, and emissions have also been drastically reduced thanks to a modern catalytic converter in the single exhaust.

The first street-legal Z50, otherwise known as the Monkey, was launched back in 1967 and has grown up to become an icon of sorts to the Honda faithful. Since it uses the same single-cylinder powerplant as the ridiculously popular Super Cub, which was just recently endowed with computer-programmed fuel injection itself, reliability is virtually guaranteed. As much as we'd love to tell you that it's headed to America, it isn't. Just 4,000 units are slated to be built, and all of them will stay in Japan. Pity.

Nick, you posted a pic of the wrong bike and this is a repost.

http://www.planetminis.com/f14/honda...se-108307.html

http://www.planetminis.com/f14/2009-...os-108378.html

**fluentdesigns** · 01-24-2009, 01:13 PM

Sorry I just posted info from a news article I came across.

01-24-2009, 11:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
fluentdesigns Administrator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Boondocks! Posts: 843 My Mood:	Press Release: Honda injects fuel into Monkey bike, gets 252 mpg in return Question: What happens when you take an old Honda Monkey bike, complete with its 50cc four-stroke powerplant, and swap its old-school carbs for Honda's modern PGM-FI computer-controlled fuel injection? Answer: Exactly 3.4 hp and 252 mpg at a constant 18.6mph. That represents a 10 percent improvement in both fuel efficiency and power over the older version, and emissions have also been drastically reduced thanks to a modern catalytic converter in the single exhaust. The first street-legal Z50, otherwise known as the Monkey, was launched back in 1967 and has grown up to become an icon of sorts to the Honda faithful. Since it uses the same single-cylinder powerplant as the ridiculously popular Super Cub, which was just recently endowed with computer-programmed fuel injection itself, reliability is virtually guaranteed. As much as we'd love to tell you that it's headed to America, it isn't. Just 4,000 units are slated to be built, and all of them will stay in Japan. Pity. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Planetminis - Planet Side X Side - River Forums

01-24-2009, 11:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
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AHPminis Advertiser Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: East Coast - PA Posts: 4,629	Re: Press Release: Honda injects fuel into Monkey bike, gets 252 mpg in return The more important thing will be being able to get a hold of that fuel injection system at some point down the road! __________________ Website - www.ahpminis.com Email - mark@ahpminis.com AHP - TB -Sano - RB - Kitaco - iShock - Fox - Marzocchi - F50s - Utopia - Takegawa - Crower

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