Racetech Gold valve shock conversion?

**Shaun** · 15th September 2010, 20:27

Originally Posted by Bren_chch

I support many local businesses, just 2 weeks ago i was in pitlane motorcycles in christchurch and bought 4 litres of engine oil and just this morning i bought a long black from a local coffee shop while deciding what valving to try first on my new setup. hardcore!

Hey - they probably dont even know where New Zealand is. I can see your keen to help and i can feel your love... you can send money direct to me, i lost my chimney and gained some dents on a couple of my bikes, i also had no power and water for a day or two BUT i did gain something, i gained some stress over all these FUCKING aftershocks! I can PM you my PO box number.

I'm all for people buying FXR parts from me but instead they buy from Asia because its cheaper from the source... Welcome to the real world. Sometimes life cruel!.

Not when you realy are a wanta be Politician who uses others sad situations to try and look like the nice guy, gotta go now and do some skids around CH CHto see if I can donate some money to the cops for there quake

**Bren_chch** · 15th September 2010, 20:29

Originally Posted by Shaun

I won a NZ 600 title using Gold valve front end kit self installed

Well there you go, something positive!

Version 2 which i bought has MUSSUVE flow thru, pretty strange loking beasts apparantly a little bit harder to setup really well... not sure how true that is?

**Bren_chch** · 15th September 2010, 20:31

Originally Posted by Shaun

gotta go now and do some skids around CH CHto see if I can donate some money to the cops for there quake

skids in your undies ow?

**Robert Taylor** · 15th September 2010, 23:23

Originally Posted by Bren_chch

Well there you go, something positive!

Version 2 which i bought has MUSSUVE flow thru, pretty strange loking beasts apparantly a little bit harder to setup really well... not sure how true that is?

Ive just installed a couple of the very latest pistons myself. The sad thing with this new Superstock regime is that hpose who called the shots on the new rules really have no idea of just how many bad engineering issues there are with stock shocks, almost everywhere you look. When you work with a high quality product those issues become a hell of a lot more apparent when you work on the stock stuff.
Thats not trying to bag stock stuff per se, its just not the land of milk and honey that some would have you believe. And in real terms the cost savings are not what people think.
My thoughts on buying offshore are well documented in previoius posts and I make no apology for those opinions but I thought that in my own cynical way I made a relevant point. I can understand some of the reasons why people buy offshore and am certain ( and indeed invite ) that I could have a decent conversation with you about it.
The reality is that given the overall worldwide market those of us in local markets at the forefront of selling products such as Race Tech are in fact flexible to the market realities, if given the opportunity. Look in the very near future for some price realignments with such product, on top of existing local technical backup if you buy locally.

**Shaun** · 16th September 2010, 10:04

Originally Posted by Bren_chch

Well there you go, something positive!

Version 2 which i bought has MUSSUVE flow thru, pretty strange loking beasts apparantly a little bit harder to setup really well... not sure how true that is?

I have always believed that flow is what it is all about, that is why there are shims in there mate, the only trick to it, is determining what is going on with your bike when riding. is it squatting, re bounding to fast etc, and then knowing the area in the shim stack to alter to achieve your goal. This was some thing that RT and I achieved together when there were NO Ohlin;s unit for the GSXR range, together we built the units for the 600/750/and the 1000, Ohlin;s europe were very impressed with our work, well, Anders Anderson was any way, according to the emails to RT I saw about it.

It may take some time, but that is what it takes. Also improves your riding skills hugely, if you do not test/try different, you do not know what could have been achioeved

RT/CKT have all Ohlin;s data on hand, as well as all the history of the riders here using there product, so can normally alter an Ohlin's shock to work very well here, but unfortunately do not have a working Dyno any longer, to start buiilding OEM shocks based on the characturistics of an Ohlin's unit, so this new rule is going to be a very good challenge for them, which I am sure they will do well with.

I have sent a race shock I like oiff shore, as well as a OEM shock to a mate with a dyno, and are having him build a nOEM unit based around the Dyno graph of the race shock action I like for the GSXR 600/750 bikes.

We will run this shock in the SS or Prod 600 class, the class we enter for the NZ Champs, is totally the riders call, as per which shock to use.

**Shaun** · 16th September 2010, 10:12

Originally Posted by Bren_chch

skids in your undies ow?

haha, Nah mate, I am down here as I bought down my 6 mtr trailler full of food and clothes and childerns toys that I managed to get a huge amount of Taranaki companies and individualls to donate to KAIPOI, and love a couple of the Japanese food houses down here, and my Mazda ute has more tourque at 1800 RPM than a SS V8, so putting here side ways is way easy and loads of fun, as I am still a petrol head KID.

**Robert Taylor** · 16th September 2010, 18:26

In fact CKTs suspension dyno will be up and running in a handful of weeks as we have a replacement part underway that was causing an intermittent problem.
Suspension dynos are a very good indicator of a reasonable starting point and show the effect of changes. Not foolproof but better than flying blind. Certainly have learnt a LOT from it.
With the Ohlins TTX and cartridge range all the work is done because they supply the graphs for all the setting combinations which we use as a reference trackside. We have a few variations on the theme but dont stray a mile off course as it were. Have also learnt a LOT from this system. There is never a perfect setting and there isnt a shock that exists where you can do everything externally with clickers, anyone that says otherwise is also fooling themselves.
With the TTX40 auto based shock its taken a step further with a Valving Reference Programme. You input your new settings and can overlay the resultant graph that it spits out over your existing setting. Very trick and over a million combinations. Weve used these shocks with both Craig and Glen Skatchill. Currently one is fitted to Ozzys F3 bike and Chris understands its response range and character better than I do because he has worked with it for so long.

**Bren_chch** · 20th September 2010, 21:09

anyone got a damaged/cheap non std muffler i can fit to my k7 600?

churs

**gixerracer** · 20th September 2010, 21:56

Originally Posted by Shaun

haha, Nah mate, I am down here as I bought down my 6 mtr trailler full of food and clothes and childerns toys that I managed to get a huge amount of Taranaki companies and individualls to donate to KAIPOI, and love a couple of the Japanese food houses down here, and my Mazda ute has more tourque at 1800 RPM than a SS V8, so putting here side ways is way easy and loads of fun, as I am still a petrol head KID.

Havent the people of chch sufferd enuf allready

**Shaun** · 21st September 2010, 08:16

Originally Posted by gixerracer

Havent the people of chch sufferd enuf allready

I spoke to ASIANS only, so no one understood my bad attitude

**Dodgy** · 21st September 2010, 13:03

Originally Posted by cowpoos

Don't forget his time racing and building 500 GP bikes!!

Oh.. he told me about his covert ops days flying balckhawks, but tries to downplay his days at NASA as a oring designer

**eelracing** · 21st September 2010, 15:19

Originally Posted by Bren_chch

anyone got a damaged/cheap non std muffler i can fit to my k7 600?

churs

Give Ash a call at Whitelock Suzuki here in Wanga's 06 345 3462.

He's in the process of funding a Nat's campaign and has one to sell,so might be prepared to haggle.

**Bren_chch** · 21st September 2010, 17:20

thanks will do!

**Bren_chch** · 21st September 2010, 20:25

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

In fact CKTs suspension dyno will be up and running in a handful of weeks as we have a replacement part underway that was causing an intermittent problem.
Suspension dynos are a very good indicator of a reasonable starting point and show the effect of changes. Not foolproof but better than flying blind. Certainly have learnt a LOT from it.
With the Ohlins TTX and cartridge range all the work is done because they supply the graphs for all the setting combinations which we use as a reference trackside. We have a few variations on the theme but dont stray a mile off course as it were. Have also learnt a LOT from this system. There is never a perfect setting and there isnt a shock that exists where you can do everything externally with clickers, anyone that says otherwise is also fooling themselves.
With the TTX40 auto based shock its taken a step further with a Valving Reference Programme. You input your new settings and can overlay the resultant graph that it spits out over your existing setting. Very trick and over a million combinations. Weve used these shocks with both Craig and Glen Skatchill. Currently one is fitted to Ozzys F3 bike and Chris understands its response range and character better than I do because he has worked with it for so long.

Hey Robert

You will be pleased. I have taken the bike and new fork internals down to your South Island, Christchurch Ohlins Person for installing and setup.

Brendan... Supporting the local guy!