no filter in this 14.
i WILL attest to this: the bike is MUCH faster with the baffle in, then the baffle out. With the baffle out, it loses backpressure and loses low end torque. Bog the launches = slower 60'.... slower 60' = slower 1/4 EVERYTIME.
i changed the gearing on the bike.. and also lost the PC3 at the same time (actually the next day, but who's paying attention to details?) I CAN NOT guarantee the bike makes as much or more power without the PC3.
Here's the deal: I changed from 17/45 to 16/45. Thats going from 2.647 gear ratio to 2.815 gear ratio.
The bike 60'd QUICKER.. remember what i said about the 60', the quicker your 60' is, the quicker you're 1/4 mile is. EVERY TIME.
The bike MPH'd SLOWER, but still ran a quicker time. Averaged between 148 and basically 150 flat. Generally averages 150 and touches 152 sometimes.
The question i CAN'T answer is the exact reason. There are two possibilities:
Either the bike made less power, because it didn't have a PC3..
OR
The bike has shorter gears, for accelleration compared to speed.
Both of those are perfectly reasonable. The only way of finding out would be to put a PC3 back on the bike, and then remove it the same night and make passes both ways.
There is another reasonable explanation to the lower MPH, and the reason i didn't run an 8 saturday. Once again, the gearing. I'll explain:
I put a 10,600 chip in my autoshifter, anticipating the nitrous (i wanted to make sure it shifted, even if i lost a little bit of the powerband). I forgot to put the 10,800 back in when i realized the nitrous wouldn't work. This caused me to lose some of the powerband, AND it caused an extra gear change right before the traps. If it were shifting at a higher RPM, it could have possibly gotten an extra 2, maybe 3 mph and probably at least another .1 or .15
I have a lot of time to test.. We'll see
Resident Drag Racing Expert.
ZX-16 in 2010
8.64 at 158 on motor
8.28 at 173 on nitrous
Back to stock for 2011.
9.24 @ 148
185 hp pump gas
New beast sitting in the garage. 07 ZX14.. Just a bare frame... for now.