Yes sir...., its great value for money...., the price of performance parts so cheap that your jaw will drop ... And I absolutely agree with you on the cribbing part... as students we saved every penny... sacrifices were made... no eating outside, no movies, no dates, to ensure that we could save enough to buy the parts required... if you really want something then find a way... nothing good ever comes for free...

Darn the distance

My exact thoughts.......I won't want a local mechanic **** up a performance kit.

I cant understand why distance should be a concern. Its just a plug and play option and even a half minded retard can do the install. Its that simple, direct and fool proof. There is nothing that can go wrong unless, he is a full retard .
This is indeed a must for every street R15. More fuel efficiency, improved reliability and increased performance.

I was planning to get it done locally in Mangalore. The upgrade happened quite suddenly. Decided on the spot to go ahead with it as I wanted to get the cylinder head reworked and Joel had sometime to work on the cylinder head. Rest of the job, including assembly was done by expert mechanics at the workshop.

And I can tell you from my observations that a mechanic who knows his job and listens to any given instructions can do the job. It's an ordinary single cylinder motorcycle, nothing fancy as it's made to sound like. I understand that most of you are skeptical about it but in all honesty it's just a bolt on kit and a half decent mech with some experience opening up engines will set it up in no time.

Hi Joel.
Im Tushar and im from Bombay but currently I am doing Mechanical Engineering in Mangalore.
First things first, you are a genius! Hats off to your mods fir YZF-R15!!

I have a query..
Does 165cc oversized piston gives any increase in the top end of the bike?? (Im crazy about InternalCombustion Engines, but this query was always there in my mind!!)

Hope you will clear my query...

Thanks in advance!!

^Yes, it improves the overall rev-range. Since the gearing remains unchanged, the top-speed is the same, but gets there much quicker. You will see a significant increase in power across all throttle points, right from low-end till top-whack.

Yes. It bumps up the power throughout the powerband. So there's enough torque for the engine to accelerate even in 6th gear.

And I ll take it that the Big Bore + Exhaust kit is available for the RTR180 as well... Thanks for the info...

Neither I am a student not I am broke....i stated that my RTR is just few days old.....I have enough money to get the stage 3 upgrade but I am waiting for atleast 6 months for my RTR to upgrade it to a real devil.

BTW, a very nice review you have presented... I am jealous now..


Joel, mine is RTR and as devilish aka bishal (from B'glore) stated me you are too keen to get an RTR for upgradation .

P.S : Now you have a PM

Just got my bike from its 3rd Service today.
Spoke to the head mech about fitting the big bore kit, and he was like, the auth service centre would do the odd 'labour' job of fitting the big bore kit ..

These mechs have a a good deal of experience of opening up engines and related stuff and may be better suited for doing the plug and play big bore fitting rather than an unknown/local mech ..

In which case my earlier post should not matter to you at all. It was not to offend anyone but to ensure the thread does not get derailed in the usual OT.

RTR can be souped up to be one helluva scorcher. Good luck with your set of upgrades. Have fun with the stock setup and get your upgrade whenever you desire, but remember in 2 months time Joel will start travelling all over the world It also happens to be one of the bikes he loves working on!

Review is just to make people understand the potential of these upgrades. Also to make them realize that while they all dream about a liter class (including myself, having ridden a few already) they can get their 150s to keep up with the 250s and still keep their running/maintenance costs lower than any 250cc bike.

Exactly my thoughts. I had spoken to the mech who exclusively works on R15s at the SVC here and he said he can do such a simple job without any issues. He has experience opening up engine of R15 several times and that of many other bikes as well. It's really not as big a deal as we presume it to be.

Meanwhile posted an update on my thread!

Cheers,
KwokFist

@kwokfist : Ha ha tension not

The mechanics are having difficulty in putting up a HID kit and I expect them to...

Karol Bagh might be the place for HID fitment Yamaha mechs are probably better at assembling engines. Find a good mech or check with the ones from SVC if they are capable of doing the job.