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posted October 12, 2010 07:09 AM
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KAWASAKI ZX-14 Cylinder Head ????
Whats the latest numbers and results on this WORLD CLASS ZX-14 Cylinder head thats being developed by Competition CNC (JIM) and being tested by HTP and Ridden by Rickey Gadson ????
  
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posted October 12, 2010 08:54 AM
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are you going make it down to the Texas Mile??
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posted October 12, 2010 09:21 AM
Cecil at HTP Performance built the 2nd engine with this head and its making 265 hp. Its a 2 x 5 and its running 8.20's 170 mph with a 230# rider on it. Its not a light bike either. Traction is limiting them at this point so they are working on the suspension.
Rickey will have one of these heads on his real street bike soon. We are working on it now. I'm hoping he will have it for the MIROCK race at Rockingham in November. His real street bike is also a 2 x 5.
We are hoping to get into the 7's on motor.
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posted October 14, 2010 07:26 AM
Karl. Yes, I will be at the Texas Mile. Jim thanks for the info and I know that you all will get there with Rickey Gadson riding the bike....Good Luck
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posted October 14, 2010 08:03 AM
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Karl. Yes, I will be at the Texas Mile. Jim thanks for the info and I know that you all will get there with Rickey Gadson riding the bike....Good Luck
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Will you be running or just moseying around?
One way or another please come by TFA pits (if you don't care who you are seen with)
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posted October 15, 2010 08:09 AM
No i will be just hanging out with some of my Corvette Buddies who will be running their Corvettes....I will definately stop by the TFA pits and introduce myself....
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posted October 15, 2010 08:56 AM
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No i will be just hanging out with some of my Corvette Buddies who will be running their Corvettes....I will definately stop by the TFA pits and introduce myself....
when are you coming down?
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posted October 18, 2010 07:56 AM
I will be down there on Saturday...
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posted October 19, 2010 02:29 AM
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I will be down there on Saturday...
see you then.
TFA pits are easy to fine, up sort of near the starting line.
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posted October 22, 2010 06:40 PM
Edited By: Y2KZX12R on 23 Oct 2010 02:44
I thought I'd post a quick update..... Rickey Just called me.....
He dynoed his 1530cc 2 x 5 zx14 "MIROCK Real Street" bike on Wednesday and then took off the Carpenter head and cams and put our head and cams on the bike today. It picked up 18 hp and they haven't tuned it yet. The a/f is at 11.5 and it hasn't had a timing map made yet. Both runs with the different head and cams had our 47mm throttle bodies on them.
Nothing else was done to the bike, just a head and cam swap. Steve Knecum did the head swap and degreed the cams. I expect it to be about 255-260 hp all said and done.
I'll post a full report after the bike is tuned
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posted October 22, 2010 07:24 PM
Wow Jim, that's a huge difference, congrats! 8% power increase without tuning, that's crazy.
Do you have any sense of how much your cams differ from the Carpenter cams?
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posted October 23, 2010 04:02 AM
Dean, our cams are .060" more lift.
This head is able to run larger cams because we bore out the bucket wells for 28mm buckets on the CNC machine and also mill out the cam tunnels and cam caps for lobe clearance with the CNC machine.
Its got o/s valves, APE bronze seats and guides and an APE spring and TI retainer kit.
One thing to note, we haven't played with cam timing yet. We are running very safe numbers right now but we need to move the intake cam 2 degrees and the exhaust cam 10 degrees. Time was short as usual so we needed to get the bike together and dynoed and dialed in at the track for rockingham and valdosta coming up soon.
This bike is also going to get sprayed for real street. We should have some 1/4 mile times in the next few days. Rickey will be testing at Atco ASAP.
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posted October 23, 2010 07:16 AM
Jim. adopt me and teach me the ways of your craft.
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posted October 23, 2010 07:19 AM
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Jim. adopt me and teach me the ways of your craft.
But then I'd have to chain you to the furnace in the basement so you couldn't tell anyone our porting secrets. 
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posted October 23, 2010 08:30 AM
Jim, i hope you put as much attention to detail on the 2011 Kawasaki
ZX-10R cylinder head when you get your hands on one.
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posted October 23, 2010 08:34 AM
Nice work Jim....Keep up the good, quality and secret work !!!!
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posted October 23, 2010 06:08 PM
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Jim, i hope you put as much attention to detail on the 2011 Kawasaki
ZX-10R cylinder head when you get your hands on one.
It shouldn't be long before i have one in my hands. I'll take pics etc and post like i did for the BMW head when it first came out.
A year from now its gonna get real good around here, like the good old days on here 10 years ago. This zx10 is nothing folks.
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posted October 24, 2010 08:47 PM
Edited By: Y2KZX12R on 25 Oct 2010 05:19
Heres rickeys post over on PsychoBike about the head. they were still tuning it tonight.......
The bottom line, this head and cam package picked up over 24 hp over the carpenter head and cam package.
Needless to say Rickey is very happy with the engineering that went into this head.
Heres the link.... http://psychobike.com/forums/kawasaki-zx12r-zx14/63926-cylinder-head-cam-swap-nets-254-hp.html
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posted October 25, 2010 03:46 AM
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Jim,
That is AWESOME!!!!
Are you planning on running yr 14 at any LSR events in 2011, maybe start with Texas in March??
You are long overdue for showing up at Texas. 
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BTW: why chop the throttle at 11K?, yr head is still increasing hp.
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posted October 25, 2010 09:51 AM
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Yea I'm planning on running several LSR and several drag race as well. Dual purpose. Notice how the powerdoesnt drop off.... nice for LSR.
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posted October 25, 2010 05:04 PM
Jim what do you mean that this new ZX-10 is nothing ?
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posted October 26, 2010 03:13 AM
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Jim what do you mean that this new ZX-10 is nothing ?
Did I say that? 
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posted October 26, 2010 05:10 AM
OMG Jim .... yes you did say that and now you are playing with us. What do you mean a year from now it is going to get real good around here like the good ole days 10 years ago, I must have missed them so could you explain. And I hope you are taking good care of my future husband. Rickey says I should send get well cards. LOL Where and when are you going to do some LSR. You really do need to come to Texas so does Rickey and Kiana!
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posted October 26, 2010 07:58 AM
Brenda, I'm hoping to do several LSR events next year. Maxton for sure I dont know about texas. Maybe.
I'll sell you the bike next year, hows that sound? Maybe right after Loring?
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posted October 27, 2010 05:35 PM
Jim is there any way you guys could develop enough power to compete in NHRA?
there was one lone kawasaki at toyo tire at maple grove sluging it out trying to get stuff developed.
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