After a hit and miss race season in Mod Bike at Kwinana with the BLOWN12 turbo GSXR1216, I decided that I'd had enough of carbies for a while and would do a few mods to the orange K1 GSXR1000 so it can be used for my track bike for the next season.
Now that I've got my black K6 back for a road bike and most of my bits have turned up, I can make a start.
I'd used the orange bike a few times for ANDRA rounds when the other one was playing up but with a sit up riding position and my fat arse, it was never going to be quick.
So, with my garage having been run over by an excavator a few months back, Rock Hard kindly offered me some workshop space and his expert assistance to get this thing started.
First up was to fit some swingarm extensions to help tame the bike's tendency to wheelie through the first few gears, which is fun but makes my times embarrassingly slow.
These are 4" to 6" extensions I got from the net and they fit nicely.
I'll need to look for a long brake line but that should be easy.
I put these in first so we could measure up to order a long chain and a bigger back spocket.
The combination of the two should get the bike out of the hole a bit quicker and get me some respectable 1/4 mile times.
Oh, fucken hello !!
I ordered a turbo kit from Jack Frost at Holeshot Racing.
True to form, it took a while to be sent out, when it got here, some of the bits were missing, and when THEY got here, one of them doesnt fit properly.
Anyway, it'll all work out in the end. He does know his shit but it's a bit frustrating.
This system is going to run at 7psi which should be 230odd hp. At 15psi boost it should punch out 320 odd but I will need pistons and rods in it first. Maybe next season.
For the moment, it's just a special cometic head gasket and adjustable cam sprockets.
I'll slip in a new timing chain and adjuster as well for extra comfort.
So, Mozz was keen to drop the motor in order to make it easy for him to set up cam timing after the head goes back on. So out she came.
Not a big job and with this being the first modern bike donk I've taken out, I was surprised at how light it is.
Here's the motor, ready to have the head off when Mozz gets the inclination. Cam sprocks are at least a week away yet so there's not a massive rush.
Next thing is to start looking for places to mount the extra guages without being too intrusive.
Morry is trying to convince me to go to clip ons but I'm resisting so far.
There's plenty of other goodies to go on but I'll keep them secret until they get fitted in order to keep this thread interesting without resorting to tits.
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