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crh wrote:

zukdave wrote: From the first time we went to the track
Eric's said my bike would NEVER beat his ZRX.

This was 1/8 mile still have to beat him 1/4 mile.
Last time out Eric didn't bring his bike but
a buddy Will was there with his '99 ZRX 1100
with cams, carb's, and a pipe I beat him four in a row 1/4 mile.

Simple...YOU know how to ride.....They don't Still, even at that, beating the Rex in 1/4 mile says a lot!! You must have that 750 really working

Larry I'm beating them in the 330 foot to were they can't run
me down at the big end.
They gonna be real pissed after I send you my spare head
and do an 810cc kit behind their back.

randysway223 wrote: Nice. how much did it run you to add the wheelie bars in the back? Love the effect, looks pretty cafe racer ish.

I think about $35 buck's.

Hell yea Dave I went to the track last night, 15 bikes ran, 12 of them were in the eights, 3 were turbo. It was like bein on dope I was all pumped up

Damn Lush where you been how's the turbo build going ?

Shits been rough but im still slowly stock piling goodies money is non existant atm.

So since I want the front down about 3" I'm going to have the frame rake'd.
Side shot of the way it sit's now.

Shooting for this sitting at 4 1/2" under the sump.

Like I said no room to go down.

Just notice'd my drag race chit has hit 10,000 view's.

Never thought when I started this thread it'd go this far
and look's like it's gonna keep on goin.

Lorcan in the last pic's the bike is sitting level
and that's were I'd like to get it.
I go longer in the back if I could find another
swing arm to use to add to this one.

Theu make straps specifically to use to lower the front end down for racing and then you can release it to stock height later if you want. I think they cost about $20 or so. They bolt to your front end using the caliper bolts. I agree it would be best to lengthen the swingarm but be careful. Beings you are only running a 150(?) rear tire, you don't want to go too far back to where you don't have enough weight on rear and tire starts spinning again. Could you mount a 18" front tire to lower bike and gain some clearance also? You can also lower the front end by putting in a spacer in the lower front forks too. Just some ideas. Oh...if you mounted a turbo and upped the boost, you wouldn't have much use for a front tire anyway... just a thought!!!

Racer I have a strap setup the issue is if it wheelie's
to high the fender will hit the oil cooler when it land's
even unstrapped.

I can put the bar on and it's no big deal but
then I can't run the street et class even with the street tire.
For the Nov. 3rd. all bike race I posted the bar bump's me to
pro et running the flat slick wheelie bar box bike's.

To add I think for this upcoming race I'm gonna
put the 1" cut spring's I have with a 1 1/4" spacer
to stiffin up the forks.

I did find a swing arm on ebay but don't think
I could get the arm done in time.

Stiffening the springs would help so it doesn't hit. I understand the deal with running the slick and bar bikes. I run into the same thing here. To get any traction means a slick which puts you at an even bigger dis-advantage so I try to keep a street tire on it...lesser of two evils type of thing as you know. What it basically comes down to is this...at least the way I look at it. Best to lower bike as much as you can and move rear tire back instead of raking front-end for whatever reason. BUT...bottom line is that its all e.t. racing. Do what you need to do to make your bike work and then learn how to use that set-up to work for you. For a streetbike like ours, raking front-end is not the best way to go but beings you have run into clearance issues, you probably don't have any options. I think an 18" tire would help though. But either way, if your only option is to rake, then you rake! Make it work. May not be the best way to go at it but again...its e.t. racing so it really doesn't make a lot of difference in that sense. It would if you were going for every last bit of e.t. but that's not your goal so raking it would probably be the better route to eliminate your problem.