Quick summary of my experience and suggested mods:
Stock - the bike is a monster, but very restricted. Couple track days on it, felt okay, not that I knew different. Come to find out, the front suspension was crazy stiff. Power band was very limited, and a little slow on the response, as well as crappy on/off throttle like a bucking horse.
Did plenty of research, this is where I am at with Mods:
Purchased/Installed Graves Smog Block off plates
Removed Smog emissions, and extra vacuum lines (plugged air-box hole with nipple)
Tied together gas tank vacuum lines into a T
Removed Canister and brackets
Removed Intake Flapper, motor, vacuum lines
Plugged flapper hole with stock part plug
Wrapped gold tape around airbox (plan to do under gas tank eventually)
Disabled/Disconnected Narrow-band O2 (Plan to remove and plug hole)
Removed Cat Converter
Purchased/Installed Link pipe with Wide-band O2 bung in place of Cat
Purchase/Installed Woolich Log box + Auto-tune Zt-3 package
Began with a unrestricted Euro map - all emissions restrictions removed/disabled. Rev-limiter is now at 14000, auto-blip enabled, kill-times adjusted for down-shifts huge difference. (I'm sure Race Tools would be better, but this was very easy and definitely helped).
And finally - sent OEM shifter to Spaz who removed all the slop and lateral play :notworthy:
With Stock filter, stock pipe, I have now data logged and tuned nearly 10 iterations using the auto-tune software. Its so easy.
The suspension was completely setup (as a baseline) for $60 at Track side.
The entire bike is a different animal. I would highly recommend everyone of these. The shifter/quick-shifter/auto-blip actually works very well. With the auto-tune and unrestricted bike, it's insane.
2nd gear runs harder than 1st gear did, and has consistently more power across the entire power band. The bike wants to come up in 3rd gear now, but nothing crazy. It doesn't fall on its face midway through the pull anymore. Every time I auto-tune with logged files, I feel the bike run smoother with more consistent power delivery.
Traction/Wheelie control is still one 1, and works perfect. The front doesn't rise more than a foot off the ground, however I don't spend much time in 1st gear, typically running 2nd around the track.
The final touch was the suspension adjustment. The tech. removed 15 turns out of the front forks, just to give you an idea how stiff it was. I bumped to Intermediate this previous weekend, the bike is a monster.
I suck, but the bike is awesome, so now I just need to fix my short comings :crackup:
Hope that helps anyone new - any questions or suggestions appreciated. Also, I did a baseline Dyno, I'll post the comparison when I dyno it again eventually.
youtube -> Anything with a Motor (http://youtube.com/c/AnythingwithaMotor link should work soon)
Insta -> whiteoutz06
Stock - the bike is a monster, but very restricted. Couple track days on it, felt okay, not that I knew different. Come to find out, the front suspension was crazy stiff. Power band was very limited, and a little slow on the response, as well as crappy on/off throttle like a bucking horse.
Did plenty of research, this is where I am at with Mods:
Purchased/Installed Graves Smog Block off plates
Removed Smog emissions, and extra vacuum lines (plugged air-box hole with nipple)
Tied together gas tank vacuum lines into a T
Removed Canister and brackets
Removed Intake Flapper, motor, vacuum lines
Plugged flapper hole with stock part plug
Wrapped gold tape around airbox (plan to do under gas tank eventually)
Disabled/Disconnected Narrow-band O2 (Plan to remove and plug hole)
Removed Cat Converter
Purchased/Installed Link pipe with Wide-band O2 bung in place of Cat
Purchase/Installed Woolich Log box + Auto-tune Zt-3 package
Began with a unrestricted Euro map - all emissions restrictions removed/disabled. Rev-limiter is now at 14000, auto-blip enabled, kill-times adjusted for down-shifts huge difference. (I'm sure Race Tools would be better, but this was very easy and definitely helped).
And finally - sent OEM shifter to Spaz who removed all the slop and lateral play :notworthy:
With Stock filter, stock pipe, I have now data logged and tuned nearly 10 iterations using the auto-tune software. Its so easy.
The suspension was completely setup (as a baseline) for $60 at Track side.
The entire bike is a different animal. I would highly recommend everyone of these. The shifter/quick-shifter/auto-blip actually works very well. With the auto-tune and unrestricted bike, it's insane.
2nd gear runs harder than 1st gear did, and has consistently more power across the entire power band. The bike wants to come up in 3rd gear now, but nothing crazy. It doesn't fall on its face midway through the pull anymore. Every time I auto-tune with logged files, I feel the bike run smoother with more consistent power delivery.
Traction/Wheelie control is still one 1, and works perfect. The front doesn't rise more than a foot off the ground, however I don't spend much time in 1st gear, typically running 2nd around the track.
The final touch was the suspension adjustment. The tech. removed 15 turns out of the front forks, just to give you an idea how stiff it was. I bumped to Intermediate this previous weekend, the bike is a monster.
I suck, but the bike is awesome, so now I just need to fix my short comings :crackup:
Hope that helps anyone new - any questions or suggestions appreciated. Also, I did a baseline Dyno, I'll post the comparison when I dyno it again eventually.
youtube -> Anything with a Motor (http://youtube.com/c/AnythingwithaMotor link should work soon)
Insta -> whiteoutz06
