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I had nothing better to do today so I took my bike for a dyno run. I’ve never done this before as I always thought it was kinda pointless. With the H2 on the horizon ( see what I did there, its on a ship that’s out to sea on the horizon ) I wanted a reference point to measure power against. This bike will be rebuilt when its raining and I can’t ride my Weapon of Massive Fastness (H2) and I am putting it on a serious diet as well as opening fully out the inlet rubbers, and full service.
It’s a 15 year old zx12r A1 ( project 320 ) with 26K miles on the clock.
For those who don’t know the project 320 stood for 320 Kilometres Per Hour. In the U.K. and U.S.A. this means 200 Miles Per Hour.
It is supposed to have made 178 bhp and 186bhp with ram air, when new.
I know the air filter (K&N) has covered over 5k miles and I don't know when the plugs were last changed but certainly not in the last 5k miles. It runs a pcv (which isn’t mapped to this bike but came off a bike with the same spec ) It didn‘t go more than 0.4% out of the optimal Air / Fuel Ratio. It has a full titanium ackrapovic zorst..
It made 172 rear wheel bhp. Allowing a low figure of 10% for "drag" this is about 189 at the crank. Add to this the ram air effect which gives an extra 8 ponies.
All in this bike stands me at about £2,600 ($4030). The H2 is £22,000 ($34,100) hence ten extra horsepower for £19,400 equals £1,940($3,007) per pony.
Whats most weird is I feel more love for my H2 now than I did this morning!
It’s a 15 year old zx12r A1 ( project 320 ) with 26K miles on the clock.
For those who don’t know the project 320 stood for 320 Kilometres Per Hour. In the U.K. and U.S.A. this means 200 Miles Per Hour.
It is supposed to have made 178 bhp and 186bhp with ram air, when new.
I know the air filter (K&N) has covered over 5k miles and I don't know when the plugs were last changed but certainly not in the last 5k miles. It runs a pcv (which isn’t mapped to this bike but came off a bike with the same spec ) It didn‘t go more than 0.4% out of the optimal Air / Fuel Ratio. It has a full titanium ackrapovic zorst..
It made 172 rear wheel bhp. Allowing a low figure of 10% for "drag" this is about 189 at the crank. Add to this the ram air effect which gives an extra 8 ponies.
All in this bike stands me at about £2,600 ($4030). The H2 is £22,000 ($34,100) hence ten extra horsepower for £19,400 equals £1,940($3,007) per pony.
Whats most weird is I feel more love for my H2 now than I did this morning!
