The timing restriction will be removed with the Schnitz flash. I just read my notes from Ivan and he said derestricting the flies was the main advantage and derestricting timing was a smaller improvement. I would spend the $75 on the flash and get both. I've never ridden an 06-07 zx-14 but I'm sure you will notice a change.
Removing flies or tuning their opening rate should do the same thing. 06-07 owners claimed they felt a huge change just removing them without adjusting fueling. My 08 was unchanged after removing the flies and tuning fueling smoothed it out but did not seem to add power unless it was way down below 3000 rpm wher the flies open. Yours open at 6000 rpm so you're missing useable power in the range you use 99% of the time.
Yeah, that is until I did a search and saw that if you dropped the screw that it would just land on the butterfly and you could retrieve it with a magnetic screw-driver.
I hope it would. If it did, the flies and actuator are made of steel so it will be a tug of war with the magnet. Also the flies swing up against a spring. A strong magnet could be enough to pull them open.
I do a lot of work to my bike, cause I am recently divorced and it takes my mind off my past life.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I broke the hole tab off my tank fairing today and screamed fuck a few times outside....
Yeah I screamed fuck a few times too when the wind came and blew my fairings over tha tI had carefully leaned against the wall in the garage. Yup--just tipping over and rocking on the cement floor was enough to put some bad scratches on them. Always lay them flat, never put them on a shelf, never put them where the wind can catch them.
I would look on Ebay for a fuel tank cover that matches your bike color. Read for "No damage to tabs" and zoom in on the pics. YOu know where to look for damage. I've had all good luck buying fairings on Ebay and I've purchased a tank cover, both ram air covers and both Foreman grills. All from different sellers. Sure it's typical for them to be scuffed up but I can polish that out pretty easily. Maybe a few light scratches in the clearcoat. Heck, I can even fix that with some rattelcan clearcoat and mild polishing compound. There's no reason to spend big on fairings if you can wait to find something on Ebay. You might get it half price of new and if it's more expensive, it should be in really good condition. You really can tell by the pics very near what it will look like when you open the box. At least that has been my experience.
The fuel tank fairing tabs that the tines on top of thank hook into? Those are not real necessary. The three screws will hold it secure, no problem.
Epoxy won't last long on fairings. You could try but It has let go on me three times. The vibration shakes it loose. I sanded used an overlapping piece of ABS to mend the crack and everything and it still came loose. A plastic welder would be better.
I've read fiberglass doesn't stick to plastic. --well, I know epoxy doesn't and that's pretty much the same thing.
I don't think I need a PCV yet, but if I find a used one for a good deal I may get one.
Get it if it's a good deal but you have no use for one without some mods that effect air intake. Removing or tuning flies will effect air intake so you might be safer getting one if you do that. I don't think there was a world of difference running my full system on stock fueling compared to a few maps I tried and finally self tuning. The improvements are subtle. It's a safe thing to do if you get some intake mods but I don't know that it's actually necessary just for a pipe. The 06-07 probably has some lean spots on stock fueling with flies out. It might be at lower rpm where lean won't do any harm but I'd still like to correct that if I were going to ride constantly at that rpm.
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