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General / Winter Project Complete
« on: 29 March 2016, 08:17:49 am »
As many of you Foccers will know I sold my Mighty Fazer Thou and bought a new 2016 Kawasaki Z1000sx.
As rightly noted by a few of you it would be down on power against my fully Ivanised Fazer.........but not any longer......all it needed was a few modifications, time and effort.
The SX has now been completely transformed and now....ahem.....has more HP, more Torque and handles and brakes better too. The wonders of modern technology and a few quid has made this even better than what I thought it was going to be.
At first I was disappointed in the performance as it was putting out 122bhp with 74 Torque. The Vance and Hines Urban Brawlers pushed it up to 125bhp but the torque stayed at 74.
A PC5 an 02 Optimiser along with a PiperX air-filter pushed it up to 130bhp with 76 Torque.......still not performing the way I thought a litre bike should so I bit the bullet and bought a full Akrapovic Exhaust with Twin Carbon End Cans and also a Custom Map.
So the SX now has 145bhp with an almighty 84 Torque which has totally transformed the bike into a proper Sports Tourer with he emphasis on sport.....the last dyno run had it popping and spitting flames
I have also done a few cosmetic changes too so it looks a bit different from the stock model....see pictures from stock, with Vance and Hines Urban Brawlers to the Full Akrapovic finished bike.
As rightly noted by a few of you it would be down on power against my fully Ivanised Fazer.........but not any longer......all it needed was a few modifications, time and effort.
The SX has now been completely transformed and now....ahem.....has more HP, more Torque and handles and brakes better too. The wonders of modern technology and a few quid has made this even better than what I thought it was going to be.
At first I was disappointed in the performance as it was putting out 122bhp with 74 Torque. The Vance and Hines Urban Brawlers pushed it up to 125bhp but the torque stayed at 74.
A PC5 an 02 Optimiser along with a PiperX air-filter pushed it up to 130bhp with 76 Torque.......still not performing the way I thought a litre bike should so I bit the bullet and bought a full Akrapovic Exhaust with Twin Carbon End Cans and also a Custom Map.
So the SX now has 145bhp with an almighty 84 Torque which has totally transformed the bike into a proper Sports Tourer with he emphasis on sport.....the last dyno run had it popping and spitting flames
I have also done a few cosmetic changes too so it looks a bit different from the stock model....see pictures from stock, with Vance and Hines Urban Brawlers to the Full Akrapovic finished bike.