Well last Wednesday I got the bike over to Jason Farrell's of Farrell Performance in Oskosh, WI.
http://www.farrellperformance.com/
Dude does excellent work. As many of you know I am actually a tuner, but specialize more in cars and more focused on that, forced induction. It's not that I couldn't tune a bike, but why in the hell would I try to rent a bike dyno when I can have a pro Kawi guy do it?
So we loaded it up and proceeded to drive the 300 miles or 4.5 hours one way to the dyno.
Last year on the track I had a bit of a hesitation/bike didn't have the power coming down to turn 2 (WOT turn if you do it right) above 13k rpm. Figuring it was me backing off the gas or the bike was just hot I didn't think about it.
First pull was 89hp, utoh (Last year it made 100.5hp with a full exhaust, K&N, SMOG blockoff, and no tune).
So upon further evalulation we determine it is an ignition issue. Decide to pull it apart and swap coils. First pull...103hp. BAMN short velocity stacks are helping.
After some tweaks it ends up at 107.33hp, which is about a 7% increase from last year. It makes more/same power from 8k up so the drive and the addition of the power commander/fixing the exhaust/adding the Kawi velocity stacks was well worth it!