Fazer 600 has a detuned R6 engine

[ChristoT]

Whats to stop you finding the detuning that's been done, and reverting it for more performance?
Or am I completely missunderstanding here?
Orrrr are other components attached to the engine different as well, meaning you'd need to replace a load to get performance up?


I always found this whole "we made an engine perform worse on purpose to sell a bike cheaper" idea a bit weird....

Time to put my pedants hat on.  :lol

(Bearing in mind this is theroy, and probably has no link to reality)

In engineering, cost is very closely linked to tolerance; the rougher the finish, the cheaper the part. If they used the R6 engine, then loosened some tolerances, the engine will still run fine, but you can't rag it as hard in case the rougher parts fail.

Or they just used the cylinder head, and applied branding - see my meme above.  :lol