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posted November 08, 2010 03:29 AM
experiment - Land Speed setup at the 1/4mi
Tom Gates (extreme turbo busa), ZXAlan(street turboBusa) & I (big inch NA Busa) met up at Houston Raceway yesterday afternoon to see what we could do with 110% LSR set up.
man o man what a comedy, 2.0-2.5 60's, spinning, slippin', sliding, 3-4 shift right at the traps.
Broke loose on 1-2 and 2-3 shifts
My mph was 159-ish, times in the upper 9's, gained 35mph from 1/8 to 1/4
With my 230-240# fatass in the saddle, about what i expected
I hate to think what i did to my clutch, but it sure was fun 
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posted November 08, 2010 03:32 AM
Sounds like a good time! How many passes did you make?
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posted November 08, 2010 04:04 AM
@entropy
which tire pressure ? did you use ?
rear shock - to hard at the spring ?
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posted November 08, 2010 04:10 AM
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Sounds like a good time! How many passes did you make?
It was a great time, but only made 4 passes, none of em remotely clean.
I gave up, wishing i had a 10" arm, MT tire & the right gearing.
I'm guessing that i could hit 165mph, mid 8's with that stuff.
My painter and big inch NA Busa drag racer says the bike (properly set up) is prob good for 170mph, low 8's with his skinny azz on it.
Karl, repeat after me:
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"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
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posted November 08, 2010 04:13 AM
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@entropy
which tire pressure ? did you use ?
rear shock - to hard at the spring ?
hey woppi,
35psi, street tire (LSR application)
shock is set up for LSR, not at all as soft in compression as for dragracing.
But the big issue is the tall gearing, 155mph at top of 3rd.
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posted November 08, 2010 04:30 AM
That's some crazy dragstrip gearing. It is the opposite of what I used to run...dragstrip gearing for LSR.
Tough motor! 
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posted November 08, 2010 04:41 AM
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That's some crazy dragstrip gearing. It is the opposite of what I used to run...dragstrip gearing for LSR.
Tough motor!
Before going i was tempted to change my LSR gearing of 20/43 to 16/43 but since i don't have a 16t CS spkt, the decision was easy
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posted November 08, 2010 04:54 AM
20/43! 
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posted November 08, 2010 05:50 AM
Very cool, I like that you left everything the same. How did Tom & Alan do? Pictures?
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posted November 08, 2010 05:53 AM
 Edited By: oldkawboy on 8 Nov 2010 13:54
We done exactly the same thing back in May after the Maxton event. The boys were curious what the bikes would run at Bristol (track at 1,600') and we were pleasantly surprised at their land speed set-up.
Absolutely nothing was changed from the week-end before & Chad ran between 9.15 & 9.20 and Zack was a tenth slower on his 14, he was alittle rustier.
Both mph's were 157-158 range.
That was with pump gas & footshifting. They raised the bikes up after Bristol and rode all summer.
They know they'll never run the big numbers at land speed events but these 14's are not too bad for streetbikes!!
We also done this back with my old 12 after it ran a tad over 200, Chad ran low 9.30's on it at Bristol the following week-end with no changes.
Their goals are 210 at Maxton and 8.90's in the quarter but we're gonna have to find a lower elevation track.
I'd say your spot on with your predictions Karl.........your Boosa is a MONSTER !!! I know you had a great time.
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posted November 08, 2010 07:24 AM
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Very cool, I like that you left everything the same. How did Tom & Alan do? Pictures?
nope no pix, TFA is bad about pix unless we have Madam ReeRee cracking the whip!
Tom was still spinning & slipping down the track, hadn't broken into the 9's yet = Ten second Tom 
Alan, had a 14# spring on and was having issues getting down the track also.
Still it was a ball.
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posted November 08, 2010 07:24 AM
don't remember my best run but years back I'd run 18/44 to Shane's 17/46 or something at the 1/8 mile....good times.
One time we rolled out and i left the ram air tubes at his place....roll-ons on the way from the track proved you need ram air tubes! LOL!
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posted November 08, 2010 07:28 AM
Dan,
your boys are uber talented!!!!
Maxton was soooooooo much fun, i'll come back in 2011, maybe for the Oct event again.
Those "heat of summer" events don't call my name too much.
You and Lydia and the boys have definitely decided on March at Texas, right???
Maybe one of em could throw a leg over the Busa; since there are no official records at Texas, it wouldn't stepping on my mentors' toes. (which i will NOT do )
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posted November 08, 2010 06:40 PM
get an arm and a shock on that thing and gear it. lets see what it can do
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posted November 08, 2010 10:32 PM
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get an arm and a shock on that thing and gear it. lets see what it can do
Karl, repeat after me:
"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
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posted November 09, 2010 09:25 AM
Karl, regular tranny shaft or billet?..........................if you have a regular, I'll drop off a 15 or 16 tooth sprocket the next time I'm in Houston.
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posted November 09, 2010 09:39 AM
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Karl, regular tranny shaft or billet?..........................if you have a regular, I'll drop off a 15 or 16 tooth sprocket the next time I'm in Houston.
Gary
Gary,
regular shaft.
Karl, repeat after me:
"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
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posted November 09, 2010 11:50 AM
Sure would be nice to see what you could do on it with a little seat time. You would smoke your old ZX-12's 8.7 second time.
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posted November 09, 2010 12:16 PM
Well Karl, like you said to me when I first came to this site, you'd better increase your cc limit.
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posted November 09, 2010 01:01 PM
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Sure would be nice to see what you could do on it with a little seat time. You would smoke your old ZX-12's 8.7 second time.
It heard that.
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posted November 09, 2010 07:21 PM
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Sure would be nice to see what you could do on it with a little seat time. You would smoke your old ZX-12's 8.7 second time.
Karl, repeat after me:
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"you are NOT going back to drag racing..."
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