Offshore "Mikuni" Clone Carbs - Any Good?

[pacomotorstuff]

I was looking at changing out the Keihin carbs on my 175 Honda twin and wondered if the offshore Mikuni clone carbs are any good, do they take the stock Mikuni jets, needles and slides, stuff like that?
I was thinking of 22 mm. size, maybe 24's.
Any of you have experience with them?
Patrick

[Brian Stevenson]

Pat. I'm not sure if this is helpful but my experience with the OKO clones has been good.

I have a set of 28mm Keihin PWK copies on a RD350.

The finish is definitely not as good and there is a lot more casting flash on the outside compared to the Keihins. The machined surfaces inside though are fine. The thing I liked is they came with proper brass screws for adjustment unlike the genuine Keihin's that all all plastic now.

The jetting was way off so I had to replace the mains and the pilots but they will take the genuine jets. It may not be a bad thing just to swap them anyway. They were as easy to jet as the real Keihins.

I think I paid around $30 CDN each on ebay so I figured i wasn't out much if they are junk. The genuine ones are almost $300 US now.