How to spot a fake PWK Airstriker carb and others...
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How to spot a fake PWK Airstriker carb and others...
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Re: How to spot a fake PWK Airstriker carb and others...
Sometimes a knockoff will not have any markings on it; no Sudco, no Keihin, nothin'...not saying how I know this.
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2006 Kawasaki KDX200 qty-2
1987 Kawasaki KX500
1991 Honda CB750 Nighthawk
1973 Kawasaki H2 750 Triple - gone but not forgotten
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Re: How to spot a fake PWK Airstriker carb and others...
It's tempting to buy one so don't feel bad... ![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
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Re: How to spot a fake PWK Airstriker carb and others...
I took it apart and compared the quality of each item with my old Keihin and I have to say that the quality appears to be excellent. It's like back in the early '60s Japan was building tons of cheap junk, then their manufacturing improved until their stuff was better than ours. I think we're in the same cycle with the Chinese. A lot of the cheap Chinese stuff has improved greatly in quality compared to what was seen around Y2K. ![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif)
Unfortunately, if there's ever another world war, we're gonna be out of luck, as we no longer have the capability to manufacture hardly anything.![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif)
Unfortunately, if there's ever another world war, we're gonna be out of luck, as we no longer have the capability to manufacture hardly anything.
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
2006 Kawasaki KDX200 qty-2
1987 Kawasaki KX500
1991 Honda CB750 Nighthawk
1973 Kawasaki H2 750 Triple - gone but not forgotten
2006 Kawasaki KDX200 qty-2
1987 Kawasaki KX500
1991 Honda CB750 Nighthawk
1973 Kawasaki H2 750 Triple - gone but not forgotten
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Re: How to spot a fake PWK Airstriker carb and others...
Remember Japanese toys when we were kids?
Yeah, cheap junk
Then they started importing cars to the US... I thought.... Cheap Junk
But then I started seeing Japanese cars with 200k on them and still running strong
The thing that irritates me about it is that it was never a secret as to how to do it.
But getting back to your statement about how we can't manufacture anything...
It's true that we can't do a lot of things anymore...
TV's, Computers, Tools, just about anything you can name...
But somehow it seems that the US can build weapons... How does that work?
Yeah, cheap junk
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Then they started importing cars to the US... I thought.... Cheap Junk
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
But then I started seeing Japanese cars with 200k on them and still running strong
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
The thing that irritates me about it is that it was never a secret as to how to do it.
But getting back to your statement about how we can't manufacture anything...
It's true that we can't do a lot of things anymore...
TV's, Computers, Tools, just about anything you can name...
But somehow it seems that the US can build weapons... How does that work?
If bikes are for kids I'll never grow up.
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