F3/Protwins SV650 Questions

[scroter]

Of course now she's got me thinking like a kid in a candy shop. My question for all you SV racers out there is; what NEEDS to be done to an SV to race it? I know there's all the legal stuff (wired sump bungs etc etc), but what do you feel is absolutely essential to get an SV going round the track? Suspension? Exhaust? Initially I'm not planning on being competitive at all.

The bike is completely stock standard

Ideally I'd like to be able to strip off all the road gear, wire the sump bung, put in a catch bottle, slap on some numbers and start racing. That way if it doesn't work out we can put the bike back on the road. If I stuck to it I'd probably make mods as I go and as I can afford them. Is this viable?

Cheers

The bike will go fine like that as long as your tyres are ok. I have been running a fairly stock carby sv in the pro twins for a couple of seasons now. last year i won the pacific series pro twins class for the season with the bike still relativily standard. I ran pirelli diablo's, braided lines and rear sets. I found the original pegs to low right from the start. I also had aftermarket fairings and subframes to hang them off, this has saved quite a bit of weight and although it was over a grand to do I feel the return came when I crashed and the repair to the fairing was only $60. either way give it a go the sv is huge fun and surprisingly capable.

[crazyhorse]

My SV (2000) has been raced at Cemetry Circuit by my ex. Alot of the guys couldn't believe it was stock standard - they go really well without needing to do much to them. But I have heard that some of them are using hyabusa parts in them, not sure if this is allowed, depending on class maybe. But my girl came 10th in both classes entered, and he reckoned he could've gone quicker, but it wasn't his bike [not to mention the consequences had anything gone wrong ]

Good luck racing it, I've often been told I should do it, they are a great bike