Couple updates.
First, unfortunately, it looks like the paint won't be ready for the track days this week
I had a feeling he wasn't going to have enough time so I told him if he didn't think they'd be ready to wait on even starting, since I need to ride with them for the track days, and then I'll just give them right back afterwards. No big deal. I think when I give him back the track bodywork, he'll probably have the couple street pieces I wanted done all finished, so I'll be able to come back and get her street ready
Anyways, a couple little seams and stitches were messed up from the crash so I had Held repair them. They did a perfect job. Also picked up another seat cowl for the street, and in the back you can see my new set of ratcheting wrenches:
I took the bike to Rob's dyno to get a custom map for the bike.
Rob's a nice guy and seems like he really knows his shit. The 2006+ R6 is a bit tricky as I understand it because the ECM won't let you open the throttle butterflies all the way below 9krpm, so you basically tune the bike to run well around the low rpms, but can't get full adjustability until then. Regardless, I don't give a shit about 9krpm and under anyways.
You can see that Rob really was able to smooth out the torque curve from 10krpm to redline. Also, the A/F mixture was way too rich with the downloaded map so the result of the custom map is that it was leaned out to a proper mixture.
Not that I care about the power number because it doesn't mean anything and there's no ram air anyways, but she dynoed at 106hp and 40 tq with the BMC race air filter and akrapovic full system.
I thought this sounded a little low but Rob said that was a good pull for a 600 with these mods. I guess there is a ton of variability between dynos (not to mention ambient conditions) and a lot of people play number games... Rob seems to be a straight shooter and I trust the number... but what I really care about is the smooth power delivery and a/f mapping. I don't have a baseline run from before the crash either, so that REALLY makes the hp number meaningless. Once I get her on the track this week I'll see if the performance has changed.
And BTW.. the akra sounded alright revving in my driveway... but on the dyno, since the engine is under load and not just rev rev revving... shit sounded awesome
