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Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 3rd, 2014|, 12:44 am
by ozzraptor
Just wanted to say hi all, got myself an xrap on the weekend, did a 2000 klm round trip to pick it up! I am now the second owner of an unmolested raptor but thats about to change.
I am no stranger to tl engines, i have owned a tlr, 2 tls , 2 sv1000's and a 650. One question while we are here ,planning on ripping out the air valve thingy , will the ecu throw a fault code like sv or just take out and good to go? cheers
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 3rd, 2014|, 1:24 am
by Spyke
Hallo and welcome, I'll have a large voddy and coke, thanks!
Nice bike you've got there.
Not sure about your ecu question, but I think you might be talking about the pair valve thingo? I chucked "pair valve" into the search box and it came up with four pages of results, so hopefully your question's answered there somewhere!
Edit1: You're #396, aren't you? (I'm psychic/psycho, depending on the phase of the moon
) That things barely run in, I've done more than 12K km on mine this year!
Edit2: You're lucky you got one with the more sturdy front mudguard, but you might wanna do the snorkel mod, again search is your friend!
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 3rd, 2014|, 6:37 am
by shedmonkey
welcome aboard. i was thinking of trying it but read mixed reviews so didnt bother. But if you try it and its ok let us know.
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 3rd, 2014|, 9:15 am
by snapdragon
Welcome in
so you tried the rest and now having a go with the better one yeh?
I'll have a flaming norah with a choc flake thanks
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 3rd, 2014|, 11:53 pm
by Miz
Hiya,
Mine runs with no problems with the PAIRS removed, I made a couple of aluminium blank plates to fit to the heads and just make sure you seal/blank off any other hoses/connectors.
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 4th, 2014|, 1:06 am
by ozzraptor
Thanks for the replies , yes its 396
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 4th, 2014|, 1:10 am
by ozzraptor
snapdragon wrote: Welcome in
so you tried the rest and now having a go with the better one yeh?
I'll have a flaming norah with a choc flake thanks
Definitely and while we're here .........I'll have alf
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 4th, 2014|, 1:12 am
by ozzraptor
Miz wrote:Hiya,
Mine runs with no problems with the PAIRS removed, I made a couple of aluminium blank plates to fit to the heads and just make sure you seal/blank off any other hoses/connectors.
Awesome looking forward to doing this mod!
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 4th, 2014|, 11:27 pm
by Spyke
ozzraptor wrote:Thanks for the replies , yes its 396 , and its still on bikepoint
I think the bike sounds better with the pair removed, not to mention dumping half a kilo of junk. Never regretted removing the pair valve on my sv1000 . I have already searched snorkel mod and i think it may be worthwhile on this bike since it looks like the airbox is sucking in warm air with those snorkels attatched . There was a mod on the sv1000 snorkel which was not to remove completely but to cut the lower portion off which left the top piece still attatched to suck in fresh air in the gap just under the tank. Cant really do that on this bike but it looks like it will be sucking in cooler air with the snorkel out? Some ram tubes would be nice . Another mod i did was the flapper valve in the airbox, those in the know say not to remove the flappers completely but to drill the plates with 4 holes in each plate , 1-2-1 configuration , it felt like there was a definite improvement in engine response when i did this to my sv1000 , it was a wheelie machine off the throttle in first. I probabally wont bother on this bike since i have only a slipon exhaust. Started fitting my GPR today, the link pipes were way too long so i have begun the task of shortening them. So far i have one side done and then need to get welded to finish but looks way better now me thinks.
LOL, OK you found me out!
My pair is still there as I love the sound, it takes all sorts! Yeah snorkel mod seemed to help, I just got a couple of bits of old flyscreen mesh and zip tied it over the openings to discourage the spiders, after a couple of weeks the mesh had molded to the correct shape so I removed the zip ties and just taped down the edges with black 100mph tape instead - the mesh now looks like it's OEM! One of the guys I ride with has an SV and his wheelies are awesome but the rap leaves it for dead.
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 4th, 2014|, 11:39 pm
by dizzyblonde
Wheelies?
Que future posts of front cylinder failure due to oil starvation
Re: Hello from ozzraptor
Posted: |January 5th, 2014|, 1:07 am
by Spyke
dizzyblonde wrote:Wheelies?
Que future posts of front cylinder failure due to oil starvation
Oooh, thanks diz, now I've got a good excuse for not doing them!