I’m tentatively thinking of trying to pick up a 450 triple race bike for next season. Do these come up for sale very often?
And for anyone who has built them, what the cost to do a quality job (with a good tune)?
I’m tentatively thinking of trying to pick up a 450 triple race bike for next season. Do these come up for sale very often?
And for anyone who has built them, what the cost to do a quality job (with a good tune)?
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I'm curious as to why you would do this to a machine instead of just keeping it as a 600? Genuinely, I don't get it.. Care to enlighten?
Mine cost very little to convert as I disable the fuel injection on 1 cylinder when I want it to be a 450cc triple and reenable it when I need a 600cc. If you go to JayCar and get some switches, relays etc you can set it up to swap backwards and forwards at the flick of a switch so you can run F2 and F3 in the same day. Of course gearing is a compromise. Best to put the switch somewhere you can't reach it when riding though to avoid allegations of cheating.
- my 12 year old bike (bought as a runner for $4000) is competitive in F3/Superlite vs finishing last all day every day in F2/600's
- 4 days for a set of tyres vs 1 day (600cc)
- my engine was built 6 years ago and is still going strong because it's so understressed as a 3 cylinder it's ridiculous
- the choice of aftermarket parts available is enormous compared to other F3 bikes
- handling/suspension/tyres of a modern 600 vs quicky/hard to get stuff for other F3 bikes
That's a start.
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Awesome info MT. I don’t suppose you have it tuned specifically for the 450?
What bike are you running?
It's tuned for 4 cylinders. Tuning for 3 only seems to be worth an extra 1hp if you're lucky. One thing the 450's do respond to is some ignition advance. It gives marginally more power (less than 1hp) but on the dyno the torque and power curves are much smoother and the engine just feels better.
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Hmm - it's a IL4 that you just stop injecting fuel into one pot to make it a 450 triple?
Presumably you still thrash it within a inch of the rev limiter in either format?
Yep.
Mines set to 15,500rpm and it's happy bouncing off the limiter all day long. Although that's not very useful as power falls off a cliff at 14,800rpm
There's a bunch of ways people have done them
- The original way was to plug the exhaust near the collector, remove the exhaust valves and plug the guides
- Be lazy and do what I did, unplug the injectors on 1 cylinder from the loom then fool the ECU with a resistor
- The Americans have often used a 5th set of injectors with a loop of tubing that connects to the inlet and outlet of the injector and filled with water to keep the injector from catching fire (none ever have but still)
- The Americans have also been known to buy a second set of cams and grind the lobes off the appropriate cylinder, then disable fuel injection on that cylinder
- Drill holes in the piston then add weight back in around the gudgeon pin
- Because we can do anything we like to the engine in Superlite the most popular method here is to remove the piston + conrod and put a bob weight on the crank
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Some ECU's will throw an error code when they can't detect a coil/injector.
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All of them do. Mostly we fool them. On the Honda's you can use a simple 360R resistor across the plugs on the loom side. GSXRs you can use an inductor (but it absolutely needs cooling) instead. With other machines it's easiest to use a 5th set of injectors. Or you can do the Woollich Racing thing and flash the ECU.
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