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Trackday choice of upgrade 2003 Tuono?

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weeksy

Joined Aug 2009
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So i've got a few TDs up next year, the largest being Parc Algar in Portugal for 3 days.

So i'm asking you boys what if anything i should change before then. Which will give me best bag for the buck?

I'm running a standard bike out of the crate to the best of my knowledge. I do have a 16T/44T combo to be fitted.

1. Gabro boiler chip (stock can)
2. Race can (ebay, no chip)
3. Powerbronze double bubble screen
4. something else

I've done 100+ trackdays and CSS, ESS schools so training isn't a major thing on my list. Just wouldn't mind a bit 'more' as it's a fast fast track apparently.
 
Can and chip (expensive but worth it). My 03 factory has stock titanuim race can and it is awesome, but any "open breathing" beast would do! (I still don't quite know how I get past my warrant each year with "NOT FOR ROAD USE" stamped on the can).

Free - I have heard that there is an airbox mod to help breathing in. Works best with can to help breating out as well.
 
weeksy said:
So i've got a few TDs up next year, the largest being Parc Algar in Portugal for 3 days.

So i'm asking you boys what if anything i should change before then. Which will give me best bag for the buck?

I'm running a standard bike out of the crate to the best of my knowledge. I do have a 16T/44T combo to be fitted.

1. Gabro boiler chip (stock can)
2. Race can (ebay, no chip)
3. Powerbronze double bubble screen
4. something else

I've done 100+ trackdays and CSS, ESS schools so training isn't a major thing on my list. Just wouldn't mind a bit 'more' as it's a fast fast track apparently.
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Weeksy buddy..............get yourself a can from ebay (chip not required at this stage!) and get a "Hooked" airbox from RSVzone (speak to hooked via PM - real name Craig -) it's an AWESOME bit of kit!! Once you have these PM DrRossi (Alain - in Holland), again on the RSVzone, and tell him what you have on your bike and he will "make" you a chip to match!!! He has done LOADS for the guys on RSV zone and they are delighted with the performance...........:thumbup

Think it's around the 50-60 euro mark!!! (cheaper tha PC111 etc....)
Airbox kit from around £100 - £160 for the carbon
Can = whatever you want to spend!!

All these togeher are an awesome combi!!!:thumbup


HTH ! ! !
 
LOL how rich do you think i am ?

that's £300-400 to spend mate.

I'm happy with the £30 screen :)
 
Mine has a Giannelli can and chip which was on the bike when I got it.
Apart from slightly lowering gearing with front sprocket thats all and its plenty for me on track and road.
 
Howdy Weeksy,
I see from your post you may already have an open can, so the chip it is eh, also you can mod the existing airbox - there is 2 stages of restrictor plates - one in the filter zone and the other is the flat plate at the base of the airbox, throw in a high flow airfilter and whoooompaaa.
If the budget doesn't go to Ohlins and the current set up isn't wallowing like a Maccy D's junky, than I'd just replace all the fluids and check the front spring length and spend some time on set up (if you can find a buyer for the kidney though - get the Ohlin's rear and a racetech rebuild kit for the front end).
I'd also invest in the centrally mounted crash bung set, the others don't do much for saving ones oh so pretty titanium can :(

Peter
 
much as i respect everyones advice on how to get the extra bh out of the stock bike, hand on heart now lads..... how many on here can honestly say they have ridden the T to its limits, and i dont mean in a straight line.
i myself know very few sports bike riders who can actually use the power thats given as standard and i do not count myself among them.
when i know i,m totally comfortable with the power i have, and i understand that i am at the limit of the bike.. then and only then would i concider the search for more ponies.

Even on the track i find my tuoldo giving me more than enough bant as i require, unless as i said... you like straight lines..

your choice.
 
charlie said:
much as i respect everyones advice on how to get the extra bh out of the stock bike, hand on heart now lads..... how many on here can honestly say they have ridden the T to its limits, and i dont mean in a straight line.
i myself know very few sports bike riders who can actually use the power thats given as standard and i do not count myself among them.
when i know i,m totally comfortable with the power i have, and i understand that i am at the limit of the bike.. then and only then would i concider the search for more ponies.

Even on the track i find my tuoldo giving me more than enough bant as i require, unless as i said... you like straight lines..

your choice.
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If i could ride any 1000cc bike to it's limits then i'd be in WSB mate :)

However the Tuono deffo has strong points and weak points about it, especially at fast racetracks. Wind blast being one of the major weak points.

Which is why i replaced the screen as my first port of call.

Whether i like straights or not, they are there on track and there's no way around them :)
 
The best £40 I ever spent was in having a pro suspension set up mate.
Got to be worth more on a track than the road, and the fact is that you will get better lap times with that done, than with a can and a chip etc.

Kais in Madchester did mine and I would highly recommend them.
 
Cannon said:
The best £40 I ever spent was in having a pro suspension set up mate.
Got to be worth more on a track than the road, and the fact is that you will get better lap times with that done, than with a can and a chip etc.

Kais in Madchester did mine and I would highly recommend them.
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Already done mate by 100% suspension in about Sept. Good mate of mine and did it for me as a freebie :)

http://www.100pcsuspension.co.uk/home.html

Top top bloke and an Ohlins god.
 
I'll second the suspension advise. And Kais, they did the Falco for me and a lot of the Enduro/crosser boys round here use them. They seem to specialise in fat blokes and big bikes :yes Be going up for a fettle on the T after crimbo. To many gizmos on the Ohlins for me.
On the Falco they reconned the front forks, new rear spring for a lardo and a reconned rear shocker + set up for under 300 quid. Transformed the bike and it was probably the best money I've spent on any bike. Bargain.
 
Charlie, I understand where you're coming from, but its can be a tad frustrating working hard hunting down 1098's in the tight stuff only to have them completely hose you in the top end stakes. If you've got the T breathing as she is supposed to, you're not giving away that much in the up to 220kph stakes, then its all about big flat bars ground clearance and drive out of the corners - helloooo twisties :drool

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And yes I waved bye bye to the back of him as he blitzed me down the back straight, they are such a cracking bike around a fast or a tight n twisty track, obviously not in the RC8 stakes but hey, nothing wrong with breaking out the book of 101 Excuses why you're going slow, not quite as much fun as the book of 27 reason to be Quick and Condescending - it all balances out in the end eh.

Hope you have a blast.:cheers

Peter
 
With regard to thefront forks AFI have a huge range of springs which you can taylor
to your weight and the road/trackday type riding you do. I have backed off all the preload
on the forks as AFI reckon the O E fork springs are too heavy...makes the bike far more
compliant and less of choppy ride with a bit more compression and rebound. My bike
is a Tuoldo and this has improved it a lot for me along with raising the ride height at the rear. I know the Ohlins stuff is far better but for someone of my riding capabilities I
now find it absolutely bang on. Which of course doesn't mean i wont be dropping the forks
through the yokes slightly and lowering the gearing.....over the winter of course.
 
fair play to you jotaman, i love the pics, nice move when the guy on the inside is doing the "knee down madness" thingy and you just scoot round the outside... fantastic.

you my friend are in the minority on here. as ... hand on heart... we all dont push our T,s that hard.
 
Jotaman

Fantastic pics there mate. Whats your tyre choice, suspension setup and body weight?
Thought I was using my T pretty well until I saw your lean angle.
 
Cheers Guy's, very kind :cheers
As far as rubber goes the only one that I'm really happy with are the Metzler Interacts - fuggggin fantastic man (I'm on the B compound), the only ones that keep up with the T in the heat: I'm running in Malaysia most of the time, as for weights, I'm an ageing 86kgs.
I found that the factory standard settings were fine (sachs shock and all), nice fresh 10 weight Motul in the front, 1 turn out on the front dampning and 1.25 on the rebound, not too much preload on the spring (3 rings from memory), the rear - was subjective to the state of the shock (I threw the shock after the last Sepang session - helllooooo Mr Ohlins, obviously I then felt guilty about the front end so said Helloooo to Mr Racetec up graded emulators and springs :drool- it all feels great but I haven't been able to get to the track for the last month, hopefully this weekend :cheers
 
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