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Wolf44
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 02:15 pm: |
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Well the first weekend with the buell I bought from Bartel's was quite anticlimactic(I think I spelled that right). I had all day on Saturday to get things going right on it where I could race it on Sunday. Well so I thought I went out for the first practice session of the day and everything seemed to be ok(besided the fact that I had on gearing for Willow when I was running gateway.....waaaayyyyyyyy offfff), my egt's were staying right where eklund told me to keep them and the bike seemed to handle pretty well except that I was dragging the exhaust in turn 2 and 7. Towards the end of the morning I noticed that my temps were creeping up a bit and I just kept an eye on it to make sure it didn't go over the 1300 mark. We have a "challenge series" in our club where we run two races at lunch to get some of the locals involved in racing. After the start I lead coming onto the front straight, got passed by an xb12, passed again right before a red flag. Came back into hot pit and checked the egt's and my temp had gone up to 1467..eeeekkk...I pulled back into the pits and called eklund. Since I didn't get a cable with the ecu Jeff came up with a plan, we tried a couple things and we still didnt' get the temps down so I shut down the Buell for the weekend. I've got the old ecu program that runs off of DOS so I ordered a new ecu and cable with the new software to get things sorted out, hopefully before MAM in oct. Luckily I still have my sv and I got going on it to get it dialed in for the races on Sunday. I got everything ready on that and ran it on sunday. I finished 1st in GT Lights, 2nd in Lightweight Grand Prix and Lightweight Superbike. I wish I could have had the Buell running so I could have run in supertwins and thunderbike...oh well theres alwasy next race heres a vid I shot from my sv during the LW SB race...it gets good about minute 6. Dan |
Wolf44
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 02:18 pm: |
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help if i loaded the vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-fWuRbnJDs |
Alessio66xb12r
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 08:45 pm: |
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GREAT |
Smoke
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 10:23 pm: |
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good run wolf. keep it up. tim |
Josh_
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 11:12 pm: |
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Cool. So you bought one of Bartel's race bikes? When? First Buell? What's with the ratio of the video? And why does Anthony keep passing you on the straight? |
Wolf44
| Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 04:08 pm: |
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its anthonys camera, he lent it to me with the agreement that I'd let him pass me a few times. Actually when I mounted it, I mounted it sideways so the aspect ratio wassupposed to be the other way...ooops. yup first buell |
Mxer83
| Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 09:35 am: |
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cool thanks for sharing!! |
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