Wednesday 21 October 2015

Time for an update

I fitted a larger nitrous solenoid to the bike a couple of weeks ago, i went for the NX 15200L, which will flow approx 300hp of gas and draw only 13amp compared to the 33amp of the bigger one i tried earlier in the year. And last weekend we got chance to try it at the Extreme Bike weekend at Santa Pod.
I put some safe jetting in to test it as i wasn't sure how it would change the flow. It turns out it was pretty good like that - still quite rich once the progressive stage was over but nowhere near as bad as before. The bike felt more lively further up the track where in the past it's felt lazy, but we struggled with traction off the line and it kept stepping out and set the bike up to go left on nearly every run, so throughout Saturdays qualifying session i never managed a clean, full throttle run. Despite this it still ran a new PB time in the last session, a 7.504 which was promising.
Onto race day and it was a damp start, eliminations didn't begin until mid afternoon and we were one of the few classes to run before the rain came again and ended the meeting. On that run however it went much straighter, and despite a little loss of traction of the line it ran a somewhat stunning 1.07 60ft time, and the PB incrementals kept coming ... 4.6 @150mph at the eigth and a new best time and speed of 7.34 @177mph, completely skipping the 7.4 bracket and a whole 5mph faster than we had gone before.

A great way to end the season then, and especially good for the new bike. I want to leave it alone for next year and carry on where we left off . But i have some new engine parts waiting to fit, so we will have to wait and see what happens.




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