kiwi to the 8's

by **kiwigsx11** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:49 am

Raced at the weekend with a disappointing result gearing it down was a mistake couldent get it to run any faster than 12'0s at 110mph and I forgot to take the 15 tooth sprocket out to the track with me . Then the Cdi shit its self but with some luck and a unknowen reason I had put a spear in the tool kit .
Did get some very good information off the data logger - takes me between .1 to .2 of a second to change gear so that means that during the course of a run I off the power for up to 1.6 seconds (data logger only runs at 10 samples a second) . Bike was always crossing the line at between 7900 and 8000 rpm , I was over reving in first gear every time , geting right out of the power band
So theres a bit of work before thd next meeting , new tyre to fit as the rear is now shagged , change the gearing back , fit the air shifter and pull the clutch ouf and have a look

by **kiwigsx11** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:12 am

Been more than a month since my last post but things have move forward if a little more slowly than i would have liked but then we had to move in to a motel for 3 weeks asl the builder and painters finaly carried out the earth quake repairs that where need post 7.1 earth quake 2 years ago

All the air shifter parts have arried from the USA finaly - the cyclinder was the hold up as up cause if i bought a new one the price to have it ship was just wrong so found one on ebay and got it here for an all up price of about $100 NZ - (50 pounds or there about) did make one stuff up when ordering the fittings and got a couple with 3/8 pipe thread not the 1/4 that i need , but then i placed the order when on night shift at like 4 am or some thing and i was tired

The clutch lever with the cables is for the data logger - you can send the data loger a signal and it will turn on the shift light at a pre set launch rpm , with then each gear progamable to the own shift point, the data logger see's the rpm drop between gear changes , that allows it to count the changes and know what gear the bikes in, very simple

And this morning EFE number 4 arrived on the truck from then north island - got this one for spears - engine cases , crank , head, gear box and clutch . Its missing the wiring loom , carbs, pipes and front brakes but arrived with a box of bits the the own no longer wanted and for the price was cheap

Bike was blue ex factory but has like a 1/16" of different paint schemes on

Its been red , brown , greeny blue with the final scheme mat black.

Now the wife made the surgestion that I put one of the 4 back on the road , some thing with more get up and go than the bandit 12 we use she surgested , so hatched a plan to do a 1230 sized motor , put gsxr forks on it and fit a better swing arm but its going to have to wait until I get the race EFE going a whole lot better

by **FBJ admin** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:58 pm

I like the sound of the wifes plan :-)

you now have 4 efes, you don't need that many

by **Captain Chaos** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:36 pm

FBJ admin wrote: 4 efes, you don't need that many

WTF?!

by **kiwigsx11** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:16 pm

Yes FBJ I loved the wifes idea, now need to have a major sort out in the garage of all my parts but think i have most of the stuff I need already just short of a set of pistons , exhust , up side down forks and some free time which is going to be the biggest problem but a plan has been hatched ................. :shock:

by **FBJ admin** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:38 pm

Dont know about where you are but over here bandit 1200 forks are a good cheap viable option

by **kiwigsx11** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:59 am

FBJ admin wrote:Dont know about where you are but over here bandit 1200 forks are a good cheap viable option

not sure on there price here compared to unside down gsxr forks but not a bad I thought as I just happan to have a set of new in their box bandit 12 rims i picked up a couple of years back cause they where cheap and in case i binned my bandit :ugeek:

by **dixiethedog** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:08 am

This has been a good read,and well worth watching for updates.

On the subject of forks,I was using some Kawasaki zxr400 ones in my efe,which lowered it nicely,and they were cheap! I was running a sidewinder pipe too.
People in the UK dont seem to look at the lower cc bike forks for projects,so I know here,bargains can be had. Ive no idea what its like in your part of the World though?

With a bit of stretch in the swingarm you could have a really nice bike with these or similar fitted.

by **stockcar** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:44 pm

personally wouldn't recomend low CC forks due to the massive weight difference to the likes of an EF lump..................

i had the misfortune to find out that what i was told were GSXR1100 forks were in fact gsxr400 and wouldn't even cope with a light stop without bottoming out and trying to tuck :evil:

by **kiwigsx11** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:34 pm

[quote="dixiethedog"]This has been a good read,and well worth watching for updates.

Thanks for the kind words dixiethedog its been interesting to keep track of this project in this forum as it not some thing i have ever done before , with my first efe race bike i didnt keep any notes at all , really wish i had so will use this not only to show the build process but to record they things that have worked at the track and those that didnt - changing to a 14 tooth front sprocket is the first of meany examples of that i think , but i would rather try some thing a fail , put my results on here cause some one else my look at from a different point of view or expreance . just because i have been around drag racing 25 plus years and made 1000's of passes i dont even start to claim to know it all , and as for making GSX 1100 go fast there are people out there that will have forgotten more than i will ever know ..........