meh. I’ve never ridden a bike that I felt was beyond my capability of riding in a straight line.
That being said, a stretched bike putting down 250+ hp would lose its appeal to me after a couple trips to my local dragstrip.
It would be cool to have a toy that reliably ran 8’s @ 160+ mph… I think Id much rather have a nicely setup SV 650 or 636 for the track.
friend of mine has a dsm turbo on his gsxr750
Well I was thinking about doing it but it might be over kill.
Probably the same one I saw up there a few years ago. Ran a 9.2 or something @ like 166. Had to launch really soft but once he got it rolling, man did that thing take off. the guy knew his shit. Wasn’t a hack job at all. Really nice work and didn’t cheap out.
there were a couple… there was a kid with an 01 1000 that was turboed… it went 8.3 (with a pro, only 8.9 with him) and he had a stretched 08 too… he went 9.2 on that, NA…
he was cutting 1.5 60’s… so i doubt it was him
theres an old guy that has one too… hes pretty knowledgeable and that bike scoots… he was a little more hesitant on it… still ran low 9s @ 160’s…
My favorite rider I’ve met at NYI is the old “hippy” with the stretched gsxr 1000, he had his motor sent out and all sorts of work done… its NA and hes high 8’s… his bike is silver and black, and he’ll tell you. “you gotta do a burnout man” he ruled.