--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 9/19/00 5:17:52 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << I take my bike into the Mountains
> frequently and once above 6000ft or so it starts to
> lose a significant
> amount of power. It seems an exhaust would help
> this, I'm also looking into
> re-chipping the bike if any one has any experience
> with that. >>
> >From watercraft racing, and taking boats from Fl to
> denver, it is not the
> exhaust that is killing you.
snip the compression thing (you wouldn't let me have
the FZR pistons! ;>)
Your stock exhaust still flows fine at altitude,
> it just doesnt have
> enough to flow through it. This gets back to the
> engine flow balance theory.
> You can have an exhaust that flows 200 CFM, but if
> the head or intake only
> flows 100 CFM, that will be your bottle neck.
> Increasing the exhaust to 300
> CFM will not produce anymore horsepower because it
> was not the limiting
> factor.
So, off-hand, where is the bottleneck on the GTS?
Airbox? Heads? Exhaust? Maybe I'll leave my bags @
home and take a shot @ the dyno (if I can find it...)
FL Kev
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