Post by Baizy on Sept 28, 2020 22:50:23 GMT -5
Hello to all, I have been playing with my Malossi Variator for some time and want to give you all an idea of what the Malossi is all about.
What they claim to give your ruck is better low end acceleration and higher top speed, whats not to love?! Well, if you're running stock Ruckus gears this is honestly a pretty good variator. The drive face is STEEP and the roller guides are very short. The trick with the Malossi is its roller guides are very shallow and then get VERY STEEP. This means it holds the cvt in a semi-high gear ratio until you hit say 8500RPM and then shifts out just a little bit more to get you that extra speed. When the engines been completely wound out to 10500RPM you will have about 1/16" of Sharpie left on your outer drive face and should have hit the magical 50MPH or 80KPH depending on your country. The downsides of this variator are that it doesn't like hills much due to its higher gearing. You lose a lot of speed going uphill and have to worry about all the cars behind you with murder on the mind because you're doing 35KPH in the 50 zone.
If you've swapped in Metro gears to get some more speed out of your ruck at lower rpms like I did you'll find that this variator goes from "pretty good" to "ok". Now you might be saying "well you could just use lighter weights" and you can, like I tried, but you'll find that the variator wont shift out all the way anymore! DAMN.
YOU CAN FIX THAT THOUGH! All you need is a longer bushing that the variator slides on, I used one from a Polini variator, however I think the stock one would work as well (I just didn't have one to try)
For your benefit my best results for multi-purpose riding with stock gears was with 6.5G roller weights. Afterwards I settled on the same weights but swapped variator bushings from the Malossi to the Polini bushings as it was roughly 0.100" longer which kept the gearing slightly shorter. Post your questions and I'll try to answer.
What they claim to give your ruck is better low end acceleration and higher top speed, whats not to love?! Well, if you're running stock Ruckus gears this is honestly a pretty good variator. The drive face is STEEP and the roller guides are very short. The trick with the Malossi is its roller guides are very shallow and then get VERY STEEP. This means it holds the cvt in a semi-high gear ratio until you hit say 8500RPM and then shifts out just a little bit more to get you that extra speed. When the engines been completely wound out to 10500RPM you will have about 1/16" of Sharpie left on your outer drive face and should have hit the magical 50MPH or 80KPH depending on your country. The downsides of this variator are that it doesn't like hills much due to its higher gearing. You lose a lot of speed going uphill and have to worry about all the cars behind you with murder on the mind because you're doing 35KPH in the 50 zone.
If you've swapped in Metro gears to get some more speed out of your ruck at lower rpms like I did you'll find that this variator goes from "pretty good" to "ok". Now you might be saying "well you could just use lighter weights" and you can, like I tried, but you'll find that the variator wont shift out all the way anymore! DAMN.
YOU CAN FIX THAT THOUGH! All you need is a longer bushing that the variator slides on, I used one from a Polini variator, however I think the stock one would work as well (I just didn't have one to try)
For your benefit my best results for multi-purpose riding with stock gears was with 6.5G roller weights. Afterwards I settled on the same weights but swapped variator bushings from the Malossi to the Polini bushings as it was roughly 0.100" longer which kept the gearing slightly shorter. Post your questions and I'll try to answer.
