Top Speed?

[dangerous]

If you are talking about the TRE device then Im not too keen on it as I think it can do funny things to the idle and/or low speed fuelling ??? :disapint:

Oh and "Morepower" - you and that 'Guzzi' dude the other nite coming back from the 'Tiko' last Thurs were absolutely showing no respect for anything alive !!
When you blasted past us slow guys doing 130km/hr at NIGHT !- PURE MADNESS - LUVVED IT !

The speed limiter is a easy fix, All you do is put a diod somewere and it tricks the puter into thinking its still in 3rd gear were the limiter dosent work. A mate had the shop do it on a GS1200ss.

Say what! theres a nother mad Guzzi dude out there?.....oh thats right I'm dangerous not mad
What flavour Guzzi was it??

[speedpro]

I figured the bike was going 311K@9000rpm, the cops said 312K so not too far off the mark with the calculations. Using a bigger engine, 1166cc versus 1075cc, a mate managed 9300rpm down the back straight. Do the calcs yourself. The kink becomes a mission and 200yards of braking disappears real fast. Did I mention there isn't a fairing?

[Two Smoker]

Yeah, but I'd rather be stopped than hit a cage at 60km/h.
Lou

LOL good point Lou... But i dont really want to hit zero on the back straight...... hmmm... who's done high speed braking before (like top speed or really high speed down to zero)????????

[Morepower]

The speed limiter is a easy fix, All you do is put a diod somewere and it tricks the puter into thinking its still in 3rd gear were the limmiter dosent work a mate had the shop do it on a GS1200ss.

Say what! theres a nother mad Guzzi dude out there?.....oh thats right I'm dangerous not mad
What flavour Guzzi was it??

The Guzzi is the last of the carbed 1100 sports (95 or 96 I think ) cant keep up long enough to find out

Oh and tlronnie , my speedometer light doesnt work so I had no idea how fast we were going , until I did a quick calculation from the Rpm in my head .
I slowed down then

Dave

[Eddieb]

I've had an indicated 155 MPH on the 888, I believe it reads 6-7% over though.

[tlronny]

Dave - Are you going again on Thursday ?
You were doing way over 200km/hr I reckon - I only reeled you in as you got TO the 'Onny' - had fun blasting past Adrian on his SV thou - reckon I saw about 250km/hr at least around the old dragstrip area !
Bit scary in the dark !!

[Wonko]

A 1000 off the redline at 210. Nice bit of flat road, three lanes wide with nothing else in site, 3 am is good for some things. Damn bugs feel like rocks hitting the helmet at that speed.

[MrMelon]

I've had the tzr up to about 190.
Since I got all the gaskets replaced and the head skimmed It really seems to drop it's nuts at 10,000rpm, so I can't really get over 170 any more (10,000rpm in 6th)

[White trash]

How much off the head? If you run 2 base gaskets, it should put the compression back to std and raise the port timing so the power comes in harder.

Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrMelon]

Don't know how much was taken off the head/barrels, but they were aparrently visibly warped.

At the moment the power hits pretty hard at 8 and goes to 10, but fuckall above 10 which is a bit gay... I'd actually be kinda tempted to chuck another base gasket in there and give it a go.. but the odometer's just ticked over 80,000km's, so I'm not too sure whether I should start thinking about new pistons/cranks first?

The engine in there at the moment is a 2nd hand one that was put in at 50,000km's so I've got no idea on the mileage that's on it now, but I've got the old engine sitting at home (it blew up a couple of times so they just replaced it). Just ripped the barrels off last night and it looks like one of the cylinders had a bit of an encounter with a power valve, so there's a chunk out of the piston, the power valve's a bit scraped up, and the rings have come off and made a bit of a mess of the barrel. Both heads are a bit dented up too :/
Just wondering whether it's worth the time and trouble to try and get this old engine all fixed up cheaply, or if it'll just be a nightmare.

[Morepower]

Dave - Are you going again on Thursday ?
You were doing way over 200km/hr I reckon - I only reeled you in as you got TO the 'Onny' - had fun blasting past Adrian on his SV thou - reckon I saw about 250km/hr at least around the old dragstrip area !
Bit scary in the dark !!

Should be there , and it was not me officer "honest" luckily it was dark otherwise at that 100kmh I would have been scared

[White trash]

Don't know how much was taken off the head/barrels, but they were aparrently visibly warped.

At the moment the power hits pretty hard at 8 and goes to 10, but fuckall above 10 which is a bit gay... I'd actually be kinda tempted to chuck another base gasket in there and give it a go.. but the odometer's just ticked over 80,000km's, so I'm not too sure whether I should start thinking about new pistons/cranks first?

The engine in there at the moment is a 2nd hand one that was put in at 50,000km's so I've got no idea on the mileage that's on it now, but I've got the old engine sitting at home (it blew up a couple of times so they just replaced it). Just ripped the barrels off last night and it looks like one of the cylinders had a bit of an encounter with a power valve, so there's a chunk out of the piston, the power valve's a bit scraped up, and the rings have come off and made a bit of a mess of the barrel. Both heads are a bit dented up too :/
Just wondering whether it's worth the time and trouble to try and get this old engine all fixed up cheaply, or if it'll just be a nightmare.

Buy yourself a nice Gixxer Six my friend and enjoy trouble free miles.

[Two Smoker]

Well with all this talk about Top Speeds and things like this, i decided to find out what my bike can really do, So about 3 hours ago (the ride ended up going on a bit longer than expected lol) Auckland Traffic gifted me with 2km of empty motorway and my brain gifted me the stupidity to try for the top speed hehehe, Well i started of in 1st and worked my way through the gears to sixth redlining each gear... I hit 6th and held it there.... i hit 180 pretty quickly, the the tacho showed me she had more to go hehehe, about 10 seconds later I was doing 195kmh (on the speedo) on a slight upcline , i couldnt believe my little 150 can do that hehehe, the actual speed was more around the 188-190kmh mark hehehe. So there i have found it, the top speed of my bike is 195 (on the speedo) at 13000rpm in 6th gear and it wont go any faster.... (Unless i do some more modifications hehehe)

[DEATH_INC.]

If you are talking about the TRE device then Im not too keen on it as I think it can do funny things to the idle and/or low speed fuelling ??? :disapint:

Oh and "Morepower" - you and that 'Guzzi' dude the other nite coming back from the 'Tiko' last Thurs were absolutely showing no respect for anything alive !!
When you blasted past us slow guys doing 130km/hr at NIGHT !- PURE MADNESS - LUVVED IT !

Yep,you should give it a try,I've done it on 3 Zooks now and all been great.
All it does is stops the timing retard in first,second and third(it has no effect on fuelling)and removes the speed limiter in top and if you do it with the resistor,it doesn't cost much (about 20c)and is easily reversable if you don't like it.

[tlronny]

Doesnt it alter the idle when in neutral as the bike thinks its in 5th and also wot about the FI light coming on ?
The '03 bikes also have an upgraded CPU which may be 'smarter' ?
Not to mention the standard retarding doesnt come in if your at WOT ?