I have disconnected the kill switch, and have gotten no change in response. I've checked and rescrewed the spark wire to the screw in the cdi box and into the spark plug several times now, and it has made no difference.

"Make sure the needle clip on the slide needle is on the second notch from the top...if it's down on the third or last/bottom notch, you may be flooding it badly."

Notches? Hm, I haven't noticed that. I'll try to check that out.

Lastly, why can't we just use like a huge MSD Blaster Coil instead of this tiny cdi box!? Would I hurt my engine or anything if I replaced the cdi box with a coil like this - MSD Blaster 3 coil MSD 8223