CrotchRocket
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posted May 26, 2005 10:07 AM
 Edited By: CrotchRocket on 26 May 2005 11:54
Longevity of a Stock Clutch basket???
Anyone have any Info. or Input on the Longevity of a stock clutch basket???
We all know a Falicon Billet Basket is a must!!!...But what's the most passes anyone of you guys got from the OEM clutch basket???...Did it break or maybe you just took it out before it broke???
I have around 60 + passes on my OEM clutch basket...I have done only a visual inspection to my basket and BrooklynZX12s OEM clutch basket, which has the same 60+ passes on his and found nothing but splinter cracks around the assembly marking stamps...In both our OEM baskets the splinters were identicle so I would say it's not a problem just part of assembly...
Any other input would be appreciated by all !!!
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frEEk
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posted May 26, 2005 10:39 AM
never done any 1/4 mile passes on my bike, but for what it's worth: i have around 30k miles on my 12, including a fair amount of abuse, and i'm still on my original basket & clutch. seems to work just fine.
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osti33
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posted May 26, 2005 10:51 AM
On hard dragstrip launches I saw a local guy hand grenade one in 5 to 7 passes with a stock motor...Ouch! Bike had about 900 miles on it. That was his frist time to the track.
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Lorcan
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posted May 26, 2005 12:40 PM
We ran from 2000 to 2004 with the stock basket and no problems. Well over 200 passes including 9.2s with 1.4 sixty foots and numerous top speed runs over 200mph.
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CrotchRocket
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posted May 26, 2005 12:57 PM
Edited By: CrotchRocket on 26 May 2005 13:59
Lorcan, tell us about your clutch set up, motor, suspention, what RPM did you leave at?...Wheeliebar or not???...Did it break, any cracks???
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matt sterbator
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posted May 26, 2005 02:01 PM
I had exactly 105 passes on my stock basket... it came apart on the 106th pass.
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krexken
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posted May 26, 2005 05:30 PM
You might want to ask a customer of mine. His stock basket exploded at around half track and locked the bike up sending him sliding down the track at around 120mph. A piece of the basket wedged in between the crank gear and basket gear. He was lucky and only suffered minor scratches but his bike didn't fare to well.
Another friend of mine had part of the his second stock basket go through the lower case when it exploded. That one was expensive also.
Another customer of mine had his stocker blow up during his heat race. This car isn't even shifted once the flag turns green.
Only mods on all these motors is a pipe. Believe they are all 00s.
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TurboBlew
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posted May 26, 2005 08:32 PM
tick tock tick tock tick tock..
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MadMike
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posted May 26, 2005 10:02 PM
Amen TB.... you guys are playing with LIVE handgrenades with the pins pulled!!! I pulled mine out because we got rained out on a sunday... and was going to send it in after the weekend. good thing we got rained out, cause mine had cracks in the fingers.... could have lasted 1-20 passes you never know. I seriously doubt 20, probably 1-3 passes....
it is just to risky not to change it.
Lorcan, dude you are so lucky!! I have seen guy's that like to wheelie blow up baskets just from shifting and yanking it up hard.
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Lorcan
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posted May 26, 2005 11:57 PM
We started with the stock bike running 10.1s and worked up to a 1270 with an arm and a Muzzy centre hub followed by a lockup all on the stock basket. I have launched it as high as 11,000rpm on a good track (and yes, it stood on end  ), although 7-8000 is more normal. We never launch at low rpm. No bars or slicks. We fitted a billet basket end of last year as a precaution after reading all the horror stories but, yeah, probably we were just lucky. As far as I know the stock basket was fine when it was removed.
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matt sterbator
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posted May 27, 2005 04:19 AM
quote:
I had exactly 105 passes on my stock basket... it came apart on the 106th pass.
Stock motor, stock pipe, 17/46, K&Ns
What it looked like when I took the cover off
Pieces that fell out of the cover
Inside the oil pan
Strained some oil
Oil filter on the bike when the basket let go, few hundred miles on the oil
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CrotchRocket
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posted May 27, 2005 04:28 PM
Excellent pics Matt !!!
The whole idea of this post is clutch basket awareness!!!
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aliveagain
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posted May 27, 2005 06:22 PM
Yeah my wife hates it when I bring parts inside to work on them but as you can see,the parts are easy to spot on the carpet.
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ninja12
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posted May 28, 2005 04:03 AM
My stock basket lasted almost the whole season race and street riding.
When it blew i sent it to falicon and borrowed a basket from a friend who
was down. Before my basket was back i had exploded his basket also!
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kcadby
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posted May 28, 2005 03:37 PM
Don't remember how many runs...it was the first year (less than 100 runs)...
John's broke at the track...
VERY lucky...it only broke 2-fingers off...
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