Swanny's new ride: 2003 Kawasaki ZX6RR

tehehodi · 12-09-2015

Are you going to do prokart in the off season to stay sharp? Maybe some ice riding?

niterydr · 12-09-2015

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Originally Posted by tehehodi

Are you going to do prokart in the off season to stay sharp? Maybe some ice riding?

I've got an opportunity for some ice riding later this season with some fellow racers potentially. I may attend a pro-kart session when they have that "bring a friend" thing.

I picked up a doodlebug that'll get a 5hp motor on it. If I get really bored I'll stud the tires and fuck around on the ice with that little thing, it does like maybe 40mph with the motor swap but keeps me bombing around on 2 wheels, and promotes proper body position to corner as well it has 2" of ground clearance.

Just working on diet and gym 3+ days a week to try to get into better shape currently.

niterydr · 02-05-2016

It has been a while but I've made progress on the bike and myself. I still have roughly 17-30lbs (17 minimum, 30 ultimately) to go in weight loss prior to the season start, I'll probably be close by May and then continue on the journey throughout the season. The bike has made better progress:

Kawasaki OEM velocity stacks (shorter) are installed
Factory Pro ignition advance rotor is in.

Remaining modifications for power:

PowerCommander (ordering in a few weeks) and tune (March hopefully).

Then I haven't decided how much I want to invest in suspension as funds are getting tight. The stock suspension last year wasn't a 100% setback, I may get springs on there and do a quick fork rebuild prior to season start.

I just dropped it off at IMS last night to be in the ZeroGravity booth as part of a display representing local race bikes. Those are the attached pictures, feel free to check it out at IMS this weekend.

Sponsors/Discount providers for this season:

Autoworks Collision Center of Rockford, MN (Body work. I highly recommended for your personal car needs)
Bel-Ray Oil & Lubricants (Fluids)
Axo Racing (Gear - TBA on when I'll order a suit as I am losing weight still and want it to fit properly, I'll have the boots and gloves to start the season)
Engine Ice (Coolant Mixture)
Ryno Power (Supplements)

and a few others with discounts that don't really pertain to this group on some new potential brake pads (not sure yet, really like my EBC track pads), trailer equipment, and misc other items such as action camera, etc...

niterydr · 02-08-2016

Bike was a bit hit at IMS, which is pretty cool. A lot of pictures were taken, here is one of the official show ones.

niterydr · 02-29-2016

Final piece of the power puzzle until next season. If I am still campaigning this chassis it will get motor work, but for now we've added:

Kawasaki Racing OEM factory race velocity stacks (shorter)

Ignition Advance rotor by Factory Pro +2

Power Commander PCIII

Shorted Hinkle Titanium muffler that has been repacked and cleaned up exhaust piping.

Get this installed and then get it over to the dyno tuner to have it dialed in. Hoping for a smoother power curve and not a huge loss of power from 8-11k, if it picks up 5-6hp on top of that, bonus! 100.5hp, 42.1 tq was last season's numbers.

Go like my Facebook page as I'll be posting more actively on that as it is easier for live posting. I'll also be sharing deals that come up from sponsors and funny/inspirational motorcycle quotes if you are into that sort of thing.
https://www.facebook.com/SwanbergRacing/

niterydr · 04-04-2016

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!

niterydr · 04-27-2016

Couple from this weekend's "practice" at Dakota County Technical College. This is a parking lot of sorts/a training location for vehicles and motorcycles, the "speed limit" is 50mph.

Ryan (mustgofaster) timed me and another racer (told me on the ride home), both of us were running 1.19-1.20's on the 1 mile course. Not bad considering the no passing but on the straights area. Again, not a race, just a practice.

I've got some body position things to work on, but not bad for a rust shakoff session.
The lower body seems good, that was my worry with the near rear sets. It sounds weird, but I couldn't bring myself to trust the pavement conditions, which was probably contributing to me not getting over and the lower body down enough; even though that would allow me to stand the bike up more...

Always interested in feedback.