abmyssaldarklord

Experience after Modding my bike(NCC-R16) for more pow-wow-er!!

This post is my Thoughts on my current SHIP/VESSEL/road-farer My NCC-R16(since its 165CC now).

In short my vessel accommodates only me comfortably, add another being to the equation and it feels quite uncomfortable, since the bike is kinda under-powered in stock condition.

I have always been a YAMMIE Guy, i had a RXZ 4 speed which was stolen unfortunately, it took me a long time to get over my 2 stroker who used to touch 110 KPH in her Full bloom days but later ripping the bike would make it overheat and it would often stop, i was happy but not the happiest cuz it would stop often when i used to drag with bigger bikes and cause me much embarrassment, repair didnt help much. though i cannot say i was happy that it got stolen it helped me heave off some pressure of my chest.

This was when i started reading the 2 strokes were being phased out slowly but certainly due to emission norms changing in the world i live in.
next came a Suzuki Fiero which was an awesome machine but i will not keep ranting about all my Ex lovers, cuz im a man of the moment, i love my present Love affair more than the previous ones for some unknown reason.

The RXZ kicked ass but had serious issues with overheating and ceasing partly due to my own incompetance in checking the bike every week.
The SUZUKI Fiero was also amazing where i managed to beat a P200 in a sprint of some 4 kms in the night.
but i needed a new bike since i need looks to go with it and research started, i started reading blogs and write up's and was planning to book an FZ, but when i went to Bangalore wheels my eyes fell on the R15 sure it had skinny tired and the likes but it had something about its shape which reminded me of a nice Buxom beauty nevertheless.

i was fired, after finally convincing everyone that this is what i want and there is no compromise and this what i'll get even if heaven conspires again i got my R15 Booked.
took 2 friggin months to be delivered, did numerous visits since the urge to ride it became unbelievably high, My dream of sitting in a bike with full fairing. Came back home riding the test R15 for the 5th time, the dealer would laugh at my plight everytime I asked him for a test ride when the bike was free, he could not say “no” as I had booked it already.

Finally by Jan 15th 2010 I got my bike in hand and started riding it and I hardly could control myself from the surge of adrenaline or the rush that came on when I ripped it till 6th gear, top-speed was my criterion and I would often check topspeed in the Hosur flyover since it has a 8 km stretch of unrestricted road with ideal speed tedtign conditions and after many attempts I managed a 144 with some tailwind and catching some Slipstream from a Tata Safari who was belting away but otherwise I felt the bike quite underpowered considering it has 6 gears.
Soon excitement became routine and routines became monotonous and the rush was wavering off and I needed some medicine for my Speed Itch which kept bugging me.
Then I came across XBHP and then the Daytona racing kit, since I was new to the world fo Hotroding I though this must be it but the price was a big incline and frankly too much and I quite didn’t understand how it well it performed in real life, I did watch the 0-150 video and thought well kick-ass lets start saving but commitments were many and my bike was just a few months old and I controlled my Itch. Then a friend of mine told me about this guy called “joel” and hwo I should get it modded from him if I feel any need for power.
This was forgotten at that moment but later I came across one of his posts and then started the research in December 2010 into the tech and all the mech that went into it.
More research continued and I kept reading in fascination, mostly posts from a member called “KWOKFIST” and another dude called “abhimanyu31”.
I took the bike to Joel’s workshop and had the BIG-BORE % SIMOTA Aitfilter fitted.
By 3 hours my bike was ready and on the run, I felt it has this distinct roar when combined with the simota air filter which has a very sweet throttle response which made me smile.

The Big bore was here, yes it was, I couldn’t stop grinning and my mad uncontrollable brain was already searching for big bikes to beat(yes that’s me,it sucks) but new engine so no speed.
A few days later after 400 km run-in was done I took it through its paces at Mysore road, accelerating low in lower gears and then rev limiter at 5th and then I touched 125 full upright, ok another stretch touched 129 and few more attempts managed 131 full upright and one 133 as well fully upright.
The whole ride was pretty long and after a few days my tank was out of petrol since it started jerking off(lol) and made note of the reading 18660 it was when I full tanked just after she was big-bored and now the reading said 19218 which is roughly 46 km’s per litre.
Joel uses this word “bang for the buck” I often laugh reading that one word but damn that’s what the borekit is all about(bang the buck lol).

Well office party happened and happened to take NICE road as a shortcut and was cruising around in the 80’s when I realized damn I could do some speed testing and squeezed the throttle the bike now revs freely till 140 in almost half the distance and then in another 10 secs came 146 and a very slight decline I saw 150 on the speedo, exhilaration possessed me.
This was repeated in the next stretch hitting the rev limiter again at 150..damn now I realized that I was no hallucinating on mushrooms or anything.
Well darn another few days later after I told my friend about the upgrade he kept talking how he would brandish me to hell in just the first 3 gears on his Stock R15 with a K&N.
I had enough we caught up for drinks and a ported SHOGUN also competed in a Drag and I had a good starts and was almost 2 bike lengths from the shogun and easily 4 bike lengths away from the stock R15, my friend not believing this wanted one more…the shogun started ½ a second before me I beat the stock R15 but I caught up with the Shogun in 4th gear almost near the rev limiter and the rest was cakewalk.
History has been made already.
News spread about this new bike and a big group of stunters barged into the bar demanding more info about this R15 that Killed a SHOGUN.
They wanted all the info possible but didn’t understand a thing as simple as compression when I spoke about higher compression ratios in the Big-bore.
These guys were Still speaking in 2 stroke terminology like chambers etc…..
Well conclusion is just the big-bore is enough to kick some serious Butt for starters.

adieu

Noor

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pravu

Mods always play a nasty sport on engine's quality and reliability. Never forget this. Its like planning a long term pain for short term pleasure.

I liked your narration and have been knowing Joel's concepts for quite some time now. Its a good solution for performance driven bikers but am sure the quality part would miss out from the scene.

Happy riding

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shv18

i believe you still have doubts about the reliability factor of kits provided from joel's end... i believe it is time to relook into that notion and have a second thought bro...

a good kit designed keeping in mind the capability and limits of the engine will not harm it in the long run and so far none of the guys have been disappointed from their upgrades nor ever witnessed any engine failures etc.... my 2 cents