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Went for a ride with the trumpets on and it felt great.

 

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And i stopped in to see dad. 

 

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1st time he had probably seen the bike in 20 years. 

 

Over all went well and was a good ride.

 

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Later in the week we went to night speed drag wars.

 

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I had some shit test runs and got nocked out 1st round. So had plenty of time to look at other bikes and think about modifications.

 

Enough time to start doing some research, research on limit straps and followed up with some chats with @MostlySuzukis about how to make them with out spending 100s of dollars.

 

I spoke to @flyingbrick about them and asked if we could make some spacers to help make these limit straps. Quick trip to his and used the lathe.

 

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He already has these spacers made so I just had to make the hole a bit bigger in the middle.

 

Then I searched the net for hours trying to find some 25mm anchor plates locally, to which @Raizer found some from nzkw which would have worked. But I was after some even more local as i wanted the job done.

 

Ended up buying some 5mm plate after not finding any local.

 

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Got to it.

 

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These now bolt through the forks to the brake calipers on either side.

 

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I had bought a cheap camlock tie down from supercheap auto and cut the tie down off and used some webbing I had here.

 

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Sewed a loop in the end

 

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This is how it works.

 

 

 

Managing to get about 70mm of compression on the front.

 

 

Before hand 

 

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And after.

 

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Not bad, $25 for the tie down, steel and hardware. Fuel and time on the other hand....

 

The experience was worth it and it'll be great to see if it makes a impact on drag racing.

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If you still had the 16in front it may have made the bike unstable at the top end. The 17 front has given you some more trail which equals stability.

At some point the CV carbs have been rejetted for the pods. Running without is roughly equal to #10 smaller in mainjet size. I'd do a few precautionary plug chops. I've done enough 1100 heads to be wary of running for long periods without filters. Race engines, fine. Road, not so much.

Edit - Probably not what you wanted to hear. But damage the head or hole a piston and it gets very spendy very fast.  And good heads are rocking horse poo.

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Cheers for that, I had since swapped the filters back on already. Plan is to chuck a 02 sensor in the pipe and monitor it and do some plug chops when I get some free time to do some testing. 

 

Hit up a guy to do some tuning on a dyno and it was $500-$700 and a week which isn't really that bad, just not in the budget.

 

Yeah between the 17 inch set up and the 16 inch set up is 6mm difference of over all height with the 16 inch set up been taller. with the shocks been shorter I'd say I've lost height over all and created more rake.

 

When @Kimjon was measuring the trail it seemed very similar to the og set up.

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7 hours ago, 440bbm said:

who was the dyno tuner greg?  not ol mate in paeroa?

Yup, BRM dyno.

 

Don't know who else would have a rolling road and be interested in doing a dyno tune for the bike locally.

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id be a bit hesitant tbh.

i used him for reflashing the trident ecu with the UK tune and tidying it up a little after the runs to get the mixtures better.  ALOT of very mixed reviews for carb tuning and anything to do with race bikes he has alot of mixed results. alot of people hate him and wouldnt advise to go there..    

So just be careful mate. 

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