BTW: How many miles on your bike? Ever ridden in the rain? That will cake on the rads.
I've noticed I tend to eat grasshoppers down here a bit, and so a couple of times a season I pull the rads and spray water through them so they are clean as new again.
25k Jim. i've sprayed them out a few times but when i pull the bike apart to do valve adjust the rads are coming out and will be getting treated to a thorough cleaning inside and out. also thinking about deleting the fan shrouds as you mentioned. and will be carefully measuring out 75%distilled 12.5% water wetter and 12.5% coolant. may even go to a local radiator fab shop to get their input.
For comparison- I weigh 200# as well. I drag race my 1125 bone stock motor with just a Barker slip on and EBR off the shelf ecm. Bike is lowered and stretched 8" . I have been quicker than that bike , 10.058 BUT - at only 133.xx mph! I am able to come out of the hole much harder than that stock wheelbase bike, so 140 mph is HUGE! That kit is making really nice power! Exciting news for sure
yeah i am close to 280 suited maybe more. im 248 in street clothes so i know i'm heavy as for racing goes which doesn't help the heat management issue at all.
I did find out that this kit will work with the stock 1125 cooling system. From what I understand, it's a bolt on deal. I don't know what the impact will be when running stock 1125 headers or even the stock muffler, some testing & tuning WILL be required I'm sure. Just a guess, but I would think the stock muffler will be a restriction.
140mph Doesn't seem to impressive for all the work being done to this bike. I've only gone down a strip twice and my second time I hit 10.3 @ 136mph. the only thing my bike had was a fmf slip on and EEBBRR ecu. I didn't have the front end strapped and I'm sure I made several mistakes... I also weigh 185 before I add clothing and gear. I feel like with the front strapped and a improved launch I feel that I could hit 140mph on my bike without investing in several thousand dollars of performance accessories... Is that unrealistic? Please Don't take this as negative attention because I myself love seeing aftermarkets companies stepping up to the plate on improving our two wheeled machines! Would it be that hard for me to gain another 4 mph though???
Drag increases as the square of the speed. After a point it takes serious power increases to see much gain in MPH.
Just add a blue bottle and you can go straight to ludicrous speed. FUN is having to remind yourself to set the front wheel down before the first trap...Sensible is having the hardware and technology for the bike to do it for you. There is just something exciting about having the wheel hanging at the 1,000 foot mark.
