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Well I have an 89 fzr600 with a full micron exhaust, I was going to go to the track with some friends and I just have to have a leather jacket helmet and gloves if I run a 12 or over, otherwise u have to have leather pants to. Does anyone know what the bike will run with the full exhauts.

Thankyou

Billy

I don't think you have to worry about it. Are you used to running "drag"?

I would bet on mid 12 - 14s...

darrin

Ya it would be at the drag strip

89fzr884 wrote:Ya it would be at the drag strip

I meant - are you used to drag racing motorcycles?

O sorry, no it would be my forst time at the track

Then yeah, your definitely above 12.

my first and last time with the fzr(made a lot of passes in my car and pickup) at bandimere i ran around a 14, if i knew what i was doing or had a two step or wheelie bars, probably could've gotten a 13.0 easy, take away the high altitude and that'd probably be a 12.0. Since its your first time you'll probably be 13-12, just try not to flip over backwards or kill it off the line(guilty)

Lol it happens to the best of us, ya I'm down in illinois so the altitude wouldn't be to bad. I would deffiently be happy with a 13 one of my friends has an 08r6 and he ran a 10.991, I just wanna rip on it and not worry about cops. Thanks for the help guys

89fzr884 wrote:I would deffiently be happy with a 13 one of my friends has an 08r6 and he ran a 10.991,

You have a 45 hp difference there.

One thing you can do is sacrifice top speed and go with a quick acceleration kit: 520 chain and something like a 14 tooth front and 49 tooth rear sprocket set. That's what I ran at Track Days and it made a world of difference. I knew my top speed wouldn't be over 130 mph AND I knew that I wanted the bike to pull harder out of the corners - worked like a charm.

ragedigital wrote:

89fzr884 wrote:I would deffiently be happy with a 13 one of my friends has an 08r6 and he ran a 10.991,

You have a 45 hp difference there.

the going theory with cars at least is every 10 hp= .1 and every 100 lbs in weight reduction is .1 however i would be impressed if the fzr could run 11.50 i know i couldn't do it.

Practice your starts. Practice, practice, practice. You can do that down an empty road somewhere. You only need to get up to 35 mph.

After the start, the rest is a breeze - just tuck tight and shift smoothly, but quickly.

Well I went last night and my best run was a 12.68 at 112 mph. I really want to get it below the 12s just something like 11.9 or 11.8. I am going to go down 2 teeth on the front sprocket and see what that does, is there anything else I can do to lower my times a little.

Thankyou

I was suppose to go to the track tonight but got called into work. I bought a 520 14/49 kit. And I wanted before and after times.

Chris.

you could try strapping the front end down so it won't wheelie so easily so you could launch harder

manveru wrote:you could try strapping the front end down so it won't wheelie so easily so you could launch harder

A ratchet strap that goes from each handle bar and through 2 spokes of the wheel? j/k

Chris.