I’ve got a 1984 Honda Elite 125 scooter and it misfires at top speed. At WOT, it pulls up to 48 MPH and starts popping and surging. Backing down to about 90% throttle smooths it out and brings it up to 50-51 MPH. I’ve tried changing the main jets and it makes no difference. It changes how hard and smoothly it accelerates, but it still starts stumbling at the same point.
I was thinking it had a rev limiter of some kind, but changing the CDI also had no impact.
So far, the carb has been replaced (PO put a 250 carb on it for some reason and it still had the same issue, but was running FAR too rich). Ignition coil, spark plug, plug wire, and CDI have all been replaced as well without change.
I haven’t ridden one of those in a long, long time, but I never tried to fix it. I just kind of figured it was one of its quirks. I’m interested in seeing if anyone has an answer.
Looks like it was a mixture issue. When I swapped the jets before, I had some old foam filter on it and an open header (previous owner cut it unfortunately). Now it has a go kart muffler and a proper cone filter, so I decided to mess with the jets again when I found some spare time today. It easily hits 55 MPH now and doesn’t pop as much. Going to do some fine tuning this weekend.