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posted February 22, 2010 07:30 PM
 Edited By: zxboy on 23 Feb 2010 03:48
The diet continues !!
I just did a bunch of work last month to shave a little weight off the bike.....
Trac front end
Lithium ferrous battery
etc....
So the end result is I lost 40 lbs off the bike and it picked up a tenth and a half in the 1/4 !!
Then I fragged the tranny.......so while it's down for the rebuld I decided to try and loose some more weight with a smaller gas tank.....
had to fab up some seat rails to support the seat
It was at 450 lbs ready to go before so I'm hoping for 425 with the new tank....we'll see soon enough.
Later, Roy
  
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posted February 22, 2010 11:11 PM
Verry Verry Nice !!!!
may you have more pics from the dashboard + upper bracket ? looks verry interesting !
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posted February 22, 2010 11:14 PM
??
which front forks do you use ? zx 6 ?
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posted February 23, 2010 04:37 AM
Woppi,
I'm at work right now ....but will post up some more pics of the dashboard later tonight. The forks are Trac Dynamics (ICS forks)
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posted February 23, 2010 06:54 AM
Roy, I am sure you don't want to hear this......., but there is at least 5 lbs of weight loss in the arm, if you switch to a moly arm......., its only money right?
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posted February 23, 2010 12:34 PM
Nox...maybe closer to 10 lbs....that swing arm is heavy !! I've been keeping my eye out for a used moly arm but they're hard to find at the length I need.
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posted February 23, 2010 01:02 PM
Edited By: Shane661 on 23 Feb 2010 21:22
My stock 14 arm weighs 10.5 lbs. My 3-9 extended and braced arm is 14.5.
What exactly does a chromoly arm weigh? The feedback that I got indicated they were just as heavy (or light) as my modified stocker.
Also, what is the weight on the Trac forks, compared to stock?
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posted February 23, 2010 01:28 PM
Shane,
Chrome moly arms can be very light...depends on wall thickness etc..my stock extended adams arm has a chunk of billet for the extensions and its a "a model" swingarm with the cast piece up at the pivot point. I'm sure I can save close to10 lbs with the right moly arm.
The total weight savings for the trac front end was 20 lbs...thats forks, triples, wheel, tire and brakes compared to the stock set up that had one disc removed and the light 58/90-17 tire
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posted February 23, 2010 01:33 PM
It's hard for me to compare my setup on the forks. I have the bst rim and a single rotor, so it's already pretty light. I'm not sure what my fork legs weigh combined with the triples.
But on the swingarm I can't see saving more than a few pounds, if that, over my current setup. I want the underbrace, and that adds a little weight as well.
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posted February 23, 2010 01:38 PM
I've got all the weights of the individual components at the house....I'll post them up for you a little later tonight.
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posted February 23, 2010 01:38 PM
Edited By: Shane661 on 23 Feb 2010 21:39
Thanks! I too am putting my bike on another diet, and waiting on a few parts (and a few decisions...and a few dollars). 
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posted February 23, 2010 04:03 PM
I lost 8-10 lbs, on my mcintosh arm, vs the exact arm that roy has.......
Those are LARGE billet blocks on the back of that arm.........
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posted February 23, 2010 04:27 PM
Edited By: Shane661 on 24 Feb 2010 00:28
Yeah, his arm does look heavy. I didn't see the pic until now...
Bike looks real nice.
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posted February 23, 2010 04:37 PM
Roy, any passes on spray?
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posted February 23, 2010 06:30 PM
Not yet Scott......I'll be messing around with it this summer  The reason I put the bike on a diet is that I want to run supercomp. The last time out (just before I blew up the tranny) it was going low 8.90's and on the last pass it 60' a 1.30 (best till then was a 1.33) so I'm thinking it would have been a 8.85 pass if the tranny didn't break !! So now with the new gas tank I'm hoping for 8.70's on motor. But I'll be running in the summer heat of south Georgia and needing to run 5.60 in the 1/8 for supercomp....sooo I'm thinking I might need a little boost to get there 
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posted February 23, 2010 06:48 PM
And Scott....to give you an idea of the potential this setup may have while spraying.....One of my fellow ZX12 racers from here in South Florida who has a very similar setup to this bike maybe 15lbs lighter, But I'm about 25lbs lighter than him so the total package will have me about 10 pounds less. I've seen him run 8.10's at 165 with a 60 shot trying to slow it down for the top gas 8.20 index 
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posted February 23, 2010 07:08 PM
Here's his bike....big difference is the moly arm and no charging system. he runs a four nozzle dry shot. It hauls ass !! I think it has high 7 sec potential with a little tuning !!
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posted February 23, 2010 07:28 PM
fukken bar bikes
a 1.30 would put my best pass at an 8.61 NA (cold air in the fall)
keep up the good work on that 12
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posted February 24, 2010 03:13 AM
@zxboy
nice pic ! nice bike !
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posted February 24, 2010 06:48 AM
LOL, if you aint set up a bar bike and rode one......, they aint all biscuts and gravy......, there is a lot of tuning in the chassis in them..........
They are not as forgiving as a suspension bike when they get hairy either.........
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posted February 24, 2010 07:34 PM
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LOL, if you aint set up a bar bike and rode one......, they aint all biscuts and gravy......, there is a lot of tuning in the chassis in them..........
They are not as forgiving as a suspension bike when they get hairy either.........
Ive been around a few, and been on dads when it took a bad head shake(big cross wind made me set it down crooked)
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00 ZX-12R Fastest NA Kawasaki in the world 1: 222.046 1.5: 226.390 Loring AFB
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posted February 26, 2010 07:38 PM
Really sweet bike ZX....You guys did good....Those are RC COMPS for wheels???? I always ran those wheel on my dragbikes....They are a nice wheel....
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posted March 01, 2010 05:09 AM
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any news ?? any new pics ??
thx
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posted March 22, 2010 06:52 PM
I got it back together...............The tranny was trashed, these are all the "bad parts"
Thanks Ali for the donor tranny...I really needed it !!
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posted March 22, 2010 06:58 PM
Woppi....here's a pic of the fairing support you were asking about. It holds the delay box and shift light and a couple of "idiot" lights
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