Draggit,
I went with the 936 pistons by JE and Stroked crank by Falicon W/ Carillo Knife Rods, basically because I heard the 998 kit by Muzzy leaks and the 998 kit by Superbike Mike Overheats.
Having said that my bike does run hotter and has made me nervous a couple of times by going through all the bars on the heat gauge and flashing red light, but the guys at the shop say that is pretty normal and that as long as the water is not boiling in the overflow tank that it is not "OverHeating".
I had my work done here in San Antonio at Extreme PowerSports on Judson Road, James is very intelligent and seemed to do a real nice job.
As for the PowerBand it starts about the same place 7500 or so and now pulls through 14,000. I shift at about 13,500 and I used to shift at 11,500 due to it stopped pulling, so it made an incredable difference. I got about 4-5 tenths and 3-4 MPH in the quarter with the big bore and Stroked crank, You beeing so light you will get alot more top end probably 7-9 MPH in the 1/4.
My compression ratio is right at 12.6/1 so I run a mix of 93 pump gas and motor sport 103 which is 99 octane, that seems to work best for my combination if you go higher with the compression ratio you will be able to burn a higher octane fuel.
The GSXR1K as much as I hate them is a bad bike, but I tend to leave them at the line and then they are coming after me on the big end, it always depends on rider but if they have a pipe and jet kit I can usually out run them, if they have much more work then that or they are lowered and can launch hard they tend to give me more problems, but if they are at stock height they are easy money.
I'm currently using a stock clutch set up with stock steals and fibers, I tried aftermarket fibers and I ripped the fiber off them after two races. The stock ones last much longer and avoid the barnett clutches all together, the stock ones are more expensive then barnett or I think it is HJC but it is well worth it, got about 200 passes out of my old stock one and about 15 out of the HJC and the Barnetts are not made for Drag Racing.
That sounds like a good goal, I would say low nines is well within reach at your weight, You could probably run that on mine right now foot shifting it with your weight, so your on the right track. I hope some of this helps and hopefully you can learn from a couple of my mistakes. E-mail me if you have more questions, I'm sure there is a little more I could share with you, I tried to stick to your questions Good Luck my brother in putting thos busas and 1K's on the trailer. D.
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