Hey guys, i took my stock unopened 883 iron to calder last night to have a crack (first time with a bike) I managed a best of 13.7@95mph with heaps of wheel spin... time to practice launching as i couldnt better a 2.0 in the 60 foot.
And now the bug has bitten.........but there are a few more hot up goodies running through the brain now!
Good on you m8, you can improve on that, the wheel spin shows up in your slow 60 foot time. get the 60 foot time down & your times will get quicker. good to see someone here finaly have a go wish i was there doing it too.
what were you up against in ticket you have posted ( from numbers looks like a HD.
hey side note daddyracer56 often does 1.55 60ft times with stock frame HD street tyre no wheelie bar, i liked heathcote, she is an old track but has had some real MC drag race ledgends race there like , Elmer Trett , & Bill Furr
i draged race my 1995 883 back in 1997/8 she was set up as a twinsport roadracer /roaring sporties that was Screaming Eagle sponsored 883 road race national series, 883 + 0.040" stock pistons ctock moded cv carb 2 into 1 pipe ported heads stock cams 12.020 sec e.t. @ 105 mph, i have never seen & 883 with stock cams do low 12s since
i remember that bike Bob.
How often do they have drags at Heathcote now?
hi Krash the old girl had stock original clutch in from when i got this bike , she did ride days as well as race practice days , 4 seasons of national series 883 twinsport , as well as other race outings bears , last outong was the 2nd last race meeting @ Amaroo pk in N.S.W. roadracing championships in amounst the jap bikes was a good days racing 5th row starts 4 bikes to a row so i was 20th off the grid was 2nd or 3rd bike over the bitupave hill those guys hated me , took home 2 trophys on the 883 & even though they hated me one off the old guys came & said that i had the best sounding bike outthere he could her her all the way around the track 7,600 rpm gear changes no clutch every time , anyway when i sold her she still had the same original clutch plates in her after al that use ,
Hi Bob would have loved to see that!
Armaroo Park for those inter state was about the only track of its kind in australia ( i know of ) was built for bike racing but saw some great car racing to very tight track with a bloody big hill to climb off start line then u crested a big hill, could not see the first sweeping right hand bend till you came over that hill, that would have been something seeing a 883 sporty go from 20th to 2nd or third off the line & with jap bikes in it as they put shit & laughed at Harleys in those day's on a road race track.
Terristrone thats a great time & ok speed for your mates fatty! & for a first up time at track for sure, tell him well done.
how offten is Heathcote Drags on?
do you guys remember lakeside in qld that was ablast of a track,bears racing there was pretty cool specially the roaring sporties nothing like watching 15-20 sporties fang around atrack
bring on the xr, s
At the end of the day, the numbers mean nothing, as you know a dyno is just a tool to aid in tuning... people get too hung up on there "total" number that a piece of paper has on it. All i know is if it rides better and faster after the dyno then its making more. What makes one tune better than another? The amount of timing (and where) and AFR's you set , and how do we know what to set these to? There are a number of different approaches, some use setting they have been told work or have read about, and wont stray far from that, while others who have been tuning for years and years use whats called an educated guess to net better results that do work. If you think along the lines of everybody else your not going to be any better so thinking outside of the box and being willing to try different things is what has kept us fast all these years (drag racing.)
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was that a Victory bike your talking about ? i have never been beating by one of these yet & race a few , last meeting clocked 2 runs @ 10.1 sec 1/4 mile times @ 132mph Dyna W/glide 120R , this bike has not been retuned for over 18 mths
