New ZR1 owner experience.

[Livin' in the 80's]

Originally Posted by PhillipsLT5

Yep, banging the 1st 5 gears at redline and letting it pull slow in 6th a blast

I don't plan on ripping heads off and doing all sorts of porting. The most I would ever do would be full exhaust and eliminate the cats. What would this give me and would it be even worth doing? It is mind blowing fast as is. I wouldn't have time to do it and I would never ship it to have it done.
I would sell this and look for a modified one already done before doing all of the work.

[George Maz]

Originally Posted by PhillipsLT5

Yep, banging the 1st 5 gears at redline and letting it pull slow in 6th a blast

Careful with the ZF 6th gear, its for maintaining cruise speed on flat highway only. No pulling, accelerating, or pressure on that gear whatsoever.
World Record Run was done in 5th gear with a rear-end ratio change to 3.07 from 3.45.

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by George Maz

Careful with the ZF 6th gear, its for maintaining cruise speed on flat highway only. No pulling, accelerating, or pressure on that gear whatsoever.
World Record Run was done in 5th gear with a rear-end ratio change to 3.07 from 3.45.

I did not know that ... Interesting . I am sure if you were doing a run somewhere you could use 6th for bit no ?
Just curious as to why it is not recommended .

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[PhillipsLT5]

Originally Posted by George Maz

Careful with the ZF 6th gear, its for maintaining cruise speed on flat highway only. No pulling, accelerating, or pressure on that gear whatsoever.
World Record Run was done in 5th gear with a rear-end ratio change to 3.07 from 3.45.

Thanks for the info, but I have made numerous 1.5 mile runs going into to 6th aprox 170MPH, 7K in 5th with 4.10,s, no problem, Bill B ZFDOC magic, car pulled to 181 MPH at 1.5 mile, then drove the car home 7 hours

[ssrszz4]

I have a 2000 Hayabusa a 1985 rg500 Walter wolf a 1990 Owo1 Yamaha a Ducati 916 monster and a bunch of other odds and ends. I'm 67 and still riding them.

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[gmonsen]

I sold my 900SS and 916 and VFR about a year ago. Kept a lot of under 500cc bikes though.

[Livin' in the 80's]

Originally Posted by ssrszz4

I have a 2000 Hayabusa a 1985 rg500 Walter wolf a 1990 Owo1 Yamaha a Ducati 916 monster and a bunch of other odds and ends. I'm 67 and still riding them.

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Got rid of my 2002 busa. I have a road king and my wife rides 884 low. I probably would be dead if I kept the busa. It was like death riding my busa with my wife and her Harley. I gave in for comfort and my life. That busa was insanely fast. I pretty much hit top speed on it on rt91 in Vermont. My buddy was on his Harley going about 80 mph and I went by him like he was going backwards. I hope I don't loose my license driving this z-it is always tempting to drop a gear mash the throttle. I am 48 going on 18.


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[efnfast]

Check Marc's web site
http://www.zr1specialist.com/HAT%20W...20upgrades.htm
He's got a pretty good rundown on what to expect form upgrades.
BTW, you get used to the power pretty quick. My car is currently getting top end porting and cams. I hope this is enough, because next is more cubes and I'm hoping not to go down that road.

[5ABI VT]

Originally Posted by Livin' in the 80's

For all of you that are owners and alike. I have owned many sport bikes in my Life. I can say that I have experienced the hayabusa at over 180 at a snap of a finger. This car is the closest I have driven that reminds me of that. If you haven't drive fast sport bikes, you. Need to at least experience it. The zr1 tonight on the highway blew me away as far as the acceleration. My busa would have blown it away, but this would have eventually kept up. Holy crap is this car fast! WOW


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Congrats !! These cars definitely like the higher speeds! I know I do enjoy them in my Z ! Stock it was way too soft and floaty and a little scary if anything even at 80 mph but fresh suspension wheels and tires etc really sharpened it up right to 180 mph


I too miss my bikes but will never get another or Ill probably kill myself . I had an 03 gixxer 600 modded a bit then an 04 750. It really reinforced my love for dohc and higher rpm engines as I loved to hear them scream at high rpms . The 600 wouldn't budge much past 265 km/hr and even so from 240-260 it was struggling. the 750 had steam to about 275-280 km/hr and I managed to eke out 302 km/hr about 5-6 times on the qew highway at 4am ! Of course with speedo error common on these bikes as speeds increase it was likely 275+ and not really over 300. To me the difference from 220k -300 km/hr wasn't very noticeable at all especially considering I did it at night on a 5 lane highway with no cars around or even in sight.