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ZX-6RR ninja 03 what is a good time on 1/8 mile

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#1 ·
i have a ZX-6RR ninja, first bike i have ever had. i have differnet spockets 14/43,K&N,lowered 2ins,muzzy slip on, and i weight is 240. the best time i got in a 1/8 mile is 8.12 but i have alot of trouble leaveing the line hard. i tryed lanching on the street i thought i had it right 9,000rpms. i was wrong i went striat up almost fell off the back, the bad part about friday at the dragstrip (noone was watching). so now im gun shy off the line. next year im getting NOS, quick shifter, power commender. i wanted to turbo it but im haveing a hard time finding turbo kits for the little 600's.
thanks for your time
 
#2 ·
stick with the 600 and keep practicing... just bring up your rmps little by little and keep triing you launches..... don't buy mods that will make the bike outperform the rider... ride safe and glad to see you are doing your draggin at the track not on backroads like a lot of the squids around here.. something goes wrong at the track you have safety personell out on a back road help can be too far away...
 
#3 ·
TY, well i feel bad because alot of my friend have riden for years and they are so much better. my friend bought a 03 636 quicker and better then mine at 60 in 2nd gear he'd pop it right up hold it tell the rev and sit it right back down. mine would come up 6in and fell right back down. But i did change out the spockets big big differents. i dont understand it some peolpe say i went the wrong way some say i went the right way. i wanted more take off because i toped my bike out at 172mph. i did it once never have didnt again, been making it faster on take off. the factory spockets are 15/42. i went 14/43 with a convestion to the 525 chain and spockets. i love dragging because curves hate me, i have ditch it 2 times on a left handed curve. speeds at about 30 to 40 mph.
with the lowering i can tell a big differnets in the handing of the bike, the thing i most is the fact when u let off comin up on curve, your body doesnt all side to the front of the bike killing the (nuts).
i like track better because of the lights more even races that way. the big plus is track has no trees, curves do and they hurt..:cry:
thanks for your time
 
#4 ·
No offense... its the rider not the bike!

Don't waste your time on the mods if the rider isn't using the bike to its full ability.

Again.. no offense... but it sounds like you haven't mastered the bike yet for the drag racing. Keep practicing and you'll get better. The only thing those mods are going to do is to help you cover up the skill level or lack of.

Your bike stock should run... what... say... 11's in the 1/4. It is also capable of doing 1 mile wheelies... its just that you can't make it do it.

AGAIN... just my stupid :2cents:
 
#6 ·
i take it you have not softened up the suspension for the drag strip??? You will not get good launches with stif suspension.. it hweelies too easy.
Set it ALL the way soft..... that alone will knock a couple tenthes off your 1/4.....
 
#7 ·
TY all, this is my first bike im still learning i can lanch get on the street but the strip is so sticky plus i dont get to go much. the lanching on street is 8,000-9,000 rpms. but i tryed the same lanching on the track i almost landed flat on my back. yea i have softened up the rear becuase the first time i ditch it was on a backroad with many pots holes. the great state of alabama loves to take a pot hole that is 4ins deep and full it full it and full it. so its 3ins high. my back tire started bouceing and got in the grass i lose it. thank god the road toss me a differnet direction on the barbwire. So i softened it so not all the way so i will try that TY. i ran 12.2 in a 1/4 mile. plus im 240 lbs. im hopeing i can get things off the website so far it has help me. i fond out i when the right way with my spockets. 14/43 stock is 15/42. i say to anyone on my bike one down in the front spocket is nice.
thanks for your time
 
#8 ·
12.2 is not TOO bad for your weight, in full leathers i was aobut 210 the last time i ran with my Z1000. which is much heavier then the 6 but a bit more power too, power to weight is close.. but the Z is actually slower in the quater... i ran a 11.32 at 1000feet leevation, my friend who was probalby runnign the track weighing 190 on his Zx6R ran it at 11.11 on the same day same track.... So you should be able to pull mid 11's at the least if u run a light jacket and jeans to keep wait low. but yeah softener her all the way out, get tier downs for the front, and the new sprockets should buy u at least another tenth.. id say if u have ehxaust too then a 11.1 hsould be doable.. his bike was as stock as they come and suspension wasnt even touched off the showroom setting
 
#10 ·
TY everyone, i still learning my bike mostly because i dont get much of a chance ride and play because here cops will give a ticket even in a empty parking pot. stoppies come easyer to me then wheelies do. i think its the fact that i can see the ground comeing at me..lol..not my back hitting the ground.
i was wanting to going be to the strip this weekend but we dont go. i still have been praticeing lauches but this is street not strip. im just hopeing to learn it. i have a friend with a 6R with same stuff as me but he runs 7.1 in 1/8. but his weight is 150 at 5'11...im a fat azz at 240 6'1.
thanks for your time
 
#12 ·
the first time i when to the strip with all my leather now the leathers were bought in 03 i was 160 lbs then....so i wanted to goin all leather, all never do that again till i get some new pants. i liked rod swert because the jacket still fits but the pants nope. lets just say i couldnt lean forword because the pants was so cuting into me. im going to try it again the next time i go.
 
#13 ·
DIET will cut your ET a half sec if you can be 60 lbs lighter....

but the 60' is gonna predict your 1/4... drop one tenth oiff the 60' and the ET will go down a half sec or so
 
#14 ·
1.8's for the 60 is about what i do and i know the bikes will do 1.6's or better...your prob a 2.1-2.3 at that ET.
 
#15 ·
yea my ET is normally 2.1 so 2.2 because i cant lauch good at the strip yet. i race all the time on the street and leave the line at 8,000 rpm. i tryed at on the strip almost landed flat on my back. next year im going to try and go to the strip as soon as it opens, but i can pratice all i want on the street but the strip is so much differnet.
 
#16 ·
at the strip u need to let some cars launch first... and run in their tracks after they get some of the track prep crap off.......unless u have a hweelie bar track prep doesnt help 99% of riders on the strip, pick the slickest spot cuz itll be stickier then the street.
 
#18 ·
i was digging through some old time slips, bene in my wallet almost two years so i wouldnt call em the easiest to read... but got a 1/8th of 7.38 with a 1.97sec 60' time and thats a 11.32 1/4 at 124mph... if only i had a bike with a halfway decent top end id be in the tens... just need that extra 40HP everyother 10 has....oh well.
 
#21 ·
yeah i just clean it when it gets too full of receipts.... leave the ones that look important --- IE old. Those extra old slips saved a check i had in there from gettign ruined when i wrecked though, the wallet got a whole ground into it, even thorugh a couple receipts
 
#22 ·
60 foot times is the whole drag race..(its actually all of first gear but you cant measure anything after the 60' time so lets just concentrate on the 60' time)

the biggest thing i see at the dragstrip from newbies is they either give it way too much rpms and dump the clutch and almost flip over or not enough and dump the clutch and bog the engine...both is a killer on 60' times....I always tell a new person at the track that on the first run , just take off like you would from a stop light and get the feel of the track and see what your 60' time is....then you can start to bring that 60' time down......

to get your 60' time down , especially on a 600, is slide the clutch.....if your leaving at 8,000 then your gonna have to slide the clutch, that means as soon as the bike grabs you dont let the clutch out fully, you want to start rolling the throttle as soon as the rear tire grabs then let the clutch out slowly..(slowly is a relative term since its all happening in less than second) you want the revs of the motor to stay constant and not drop down (bog) or try to flip over.,......

you want to get the clutch out and the throttle to wide open as soon as you can with out flipping over or bogging the engine, if the bike starts to wheelie thats ok as long as you dont have to back off the throttle, any time you have to back off the throttle at the launch its going to kill your time and this takes practice and seat time...(and maybe a clutch or two during the season if you do it a lot :crazy: )

a 1.8 60' time usually will get you the times that the motorcycle mags publish.....thats a decent launch...once you get real good at it then your 60' times will come down to the 1.6-1.7 range....my best on 600's and 750's has been low 1.7's and i use to run mid 1.6's with my old 89 gsxr1100....this is all with nothing tied down and stock swing arm....

biggest thing is just to have fun..dragracing the bikes is a blast ...just takes a little practice to do it well...:cheers:



jack
 
#24 ·
yeah, its been a long time Jack... life bene busy?


Slipping the clutch is a must.. otherwise u need the perfect set up and RPM to just dump it and go right.... plus that will tend to load the rear shock way too much and make it wanna wheelie more then slipping will.
A good launch can spin the rear tire without much of a wheelie. Guys that do it a lot have no issue with the tire sliding for as long as it will till it catches.... for me, id back off just a hair and get it gripping... i cant afford to loop the bike. Dumping it once this year doing a wheelie at 77mph cost me plenty for a lifetime
 
#26 ·
pratice first no use of throwing big money into a small motor for a 1/8 get good gear ratio good plugs and wires good tires a tre and lower the bike and get your launches down straight and you will run good times. If you want a motor that runs nitrous and all the other fixings move up the new 1,000's their light fast and you will get better times on them. Then when you have mastered that grand then put nitrous or turbos with extended swingarms and lower the hell out of it and go to the quater to play:luck:
 
#27 ·
get...good plugs and wires...a tre
the 600s dont have timing retarded in early gears like the busa and TLR and such.... normally ppl get advancers for them to make max power in a competitive track bike, even on pump gas a small amount of advancement can still be had....
And all the halfway new bikes run direct coil ignition, there are no wires.. you could put in MSD coils but not sure youd see much of a gain, I'd kinda like to see some dyno results for that... they are not too expensive, but i htink its jsut practice... you can destroy a guy with more HP if u outlaunch....
 
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