Dai
1st April 2006, 15:40
OK ladies and gentlemen,
I'm new to this board and have only just got back into biking in NZ. I have spent the last 25 years in the UK where my last ew bikes have been a Yamaha FJ900, a ZZR1100 and a Honda VFR 750.
I have a GSX1100FJ that is going off the road to get a rebuild so I have just bought a GS1200SS for a bit of fun riding.
What I want to know is where to start modifying this machine for some more power. I have read all I can on this board but have trouble visualising all the information. Its a bit random.
What can I do to this bike to take it to about 130-150 hp. The last few years in the UK bikes were my living, 250,000 miles in 2 years, so all i was interested in was that the thing kept going strong and returned reasonablee fuel ecconomy. Apart from the occasional drag at Santa Pod and the occasional 5 year ban for speeding on the M4 (indicated 180mph on the ZZR), I havent worried too much about performance tuning.
I understand these are detuned "bandit" engines. WHere do I start? Where do I progress to? Where do I go o to get the parts from?
My last foray into improving the performance of a motorbike myself was a RD350 in the mid 70's before going to the UK.
I am pretty much a nov ice when it coms to working on these 4 stroke big bore engines.
Help me !!!
I dont speed often but sometimes I just have that urge to push myself and my bike to our respective limits. I would like to be able to do this on this bike.
Dai.
I'm new to this board and have only just got back into biking in NZ. I have spent the last 25 years in the UK where my last ew bikes have been a Yamaha FJ900, a ZZR1100 and a Honda VFR 750.
I have a GSX1100FJ that is going off the road to get a rebuild so I have just bought a GS1200SS for a bit of fun riding.
What I want to know is where to start modifying this machine for some more power. I have read all I can on this board but have trouble visualising all the information. Its a bit random.
What can I do to this bike to take it to about 130-150 hp. The last few years in the UK bikes were my living, 250,000 miles in 2 years, so all i was interested in was that the thing kept going strong and returned reasonablee fuel ecconomy. Apart from the occasional drag at Santa Pod and the occasional 5 year ban for speeding on the M4 (indicated 180mph on the ZZR), I havent worried too much about performance tuning.
I understand these are detuned "bandit" engines. WHere do I start? Where do I progress to? Where do I go o to get the parts from?
My last foray into improving the performance of a motorbike myself was a RD350 in the mid 70's before going to the UK.
I am pretty much a nov ice when it coms to working on these 4 stroke big bore engines.
Help me !!!
I dont speed often but sometimes I just have that urge to push myself and my bike to our respective limits. I would like to be able to do this on this bike.
Dai.