what tweaks can i do for some minor to moderate performance boost?

Kawasaki 250 ZZR, would like to get a little more grunt out of it, trading
up to a bigger bike isnt an option due to money limits, so i'm looking for a
few things that i could have done to boost performance a little, nothing too
major or expensive obviously, i.e. under $500 mark.

thanks.

 

save your money and spent it on a bigger bike

do a rider training course

geta good service and tune

dont bother and save your money

1 poofteenth extra of SFA is still SFA

 

rider training

suspension

smaller front sprocket will give apparent more power

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:35:05 +1000

Decide *why* you want more go. Is it because you don't win the traffic
light drags? When you say grunt, do you mean acelleration or top speed?

If you want to go faster in the twisties, do the Superbike School, under
$500 and your bike will go much faster.

If you want more go off the line or more top speed, forget it. There's
no cheap way to do that. Except maybe a diet. For you, not the bike...

There isn't much for somethign like that, it's already quite highly
tuned. Anything there will be, will be way more than $500 as it will
require engine work or new pipes maybe.

Make sure the maintenance is spot on - chain exactly right, carbs
perfect, oil changed frequently. Experiment with tyre pressures.

To get a noticeable increase in a small engine, you have to work on it.
Things like polishing, opening the inlets for bigger carbs and tuning
with more free flowing pipes, different cam. All of those are
expensive.

So be honest about why you need more power. Find out if it's you or the
bike who needs the tuneup. If it's the bike, forget it, so you have to
tune you up.

Or forget a highly tuned modern 4 stroke 250, get an old bike, get
a noticeable increase in power with cheap easy mods, then realise it's
still not as good as the modern 250...

Zebee

 

Go down one tooth on the front sprocket

Loose some weight
- seriously

 

....lose an "o"...

- seriously

Hehe - how the bloody hell are you mate? I'm keen for another weekend spin
somewhere in the next few weekends. I'm pursuing another fun direction at
the moment - getting back into my flying lessons. Lisa is delighted -
almost too much for words.

Anyway, I'm back from Gladstone on Fri night and would love to catch up for
a flight of another kind somewhere if you're up for it. I'll contact the
usual suspects.

Cheers,
Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX (my lonely 'bird)

 

Dave Ello wrote:

<snip>

'03 XX (my lonely 'bird)

All you had to do was ask!

regards,
CrazyCam (I'd even take Lisa on the back, if required)

 

Hello Usual Suspect!

Actually, you're more than welcome to use the beastie during the week while
I'm up here in Gladdy (goes without saying Cam)! If you like, I'll drop it
over on Sunday afternoon and can pick it up Friday early evening - anytime.
Lisa can get herself to your place and be the sweet blonde pillion.

Cheers and will be in touch re: w'end ride.

Dave

 

Would love to but...
....booked into a B&B in the Blue Mountains for a Yuletide whatever and
it would be more than my life was worth.

How long are you in GS for ?

Burnie M

 

Hmmm... I know the story. I'm here Mon-Fri until about Sep-10 then holiday
overseas for about 6 weeks. After that Lisa and I are heading off on the
bike for about 2 weeks and then I'll be back here prob until April or
thereabouts. However, I'll stipulate 2 weeks here in GS and 1 week in Syd
(fingers crossed).

Have fun in the mtns. Should be a lot of fun (almost as much as heading to
Terrigal for b'fast!).

Cheers,
Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX

 

Have a look at the mods section on http://www.ninja250.info/.

The site is for the US Ninja 250 which is the Aus GPX 250 with the same
engine as our ZZR250's.

Skuz
ZZR250

 

On demand acceleration, if that makes sense? Anyway, some great information,
will look into rider training,
thankyou.

 

interesting, thanks.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 6 Aug 2004 01:19:52 +1000

Yup. Basically you want more horsepower, and you can't have it.

So you have to learn how to ride so that you don't need it.

Look at the situations you find you want it in. What are they? What
makes you think you need power, what are you trying to gain? When you
know that, you can look at what alternatives there are in each
situation.

In the twisties, it's almost never lack of power that makes someone
slow...

In traffic, it's usually timing and anticipation that substitutes for
power. A ZZR can get off the line fine, so if you are losing any other
contests with cars, then you need to work on your observation and
planning. And sometimes you need to deal with the fact that you have to
wait till the next lights to be ahead...

Zebee

 

to power out of trouble ???

 

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