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Offline mr200t

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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2009, 02:48:02 PM »
aaahhhh thanks very mucho, guys. big help really. so its a 'no' on the b5/6 cowl?

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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2009, 05:01:22 PM »
Other than some of the more generic parts (brakes and so forth), there's very little on the B4 common with anything including the B6.

I had the Gimble cowl on my B4.  Very nice, quality piece. 
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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2009, 12:55:33 AM »
food for thought you get 8 hp with the kit with no other mods thats $140.00 per 1 HP worth it in my book...
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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2009, 04:26:01 PM »
food for thought you get 8 hp with the kit with no other mods thats $140.00 per 1 HP worth it in my book...
So basically a 13% increase in power from a 10% increase in displacement...seems like it's on the right-side of the percentages.
I'm sure with some of those wild carbs you've shown in the past it'd be even greater increases.
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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2009, 08:06:09 PM »
Seat cowls and belly pans are still available from Gimbel, a German manufacturer. Prices on eBay are 100 euros for the seat cowl, sprayed and 20 euros for the belly pan, unsprayed. I have both for sale since I'm selling all my spare Bandit parts.
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After 3 years on the Bandit I've made enough mistakes to learn from and now it's time to make new mistakes on a new bike :bigok: Poor Bandit has had it's life, over 100.000 km's, dented frame, both wheels are not straight anymore, after visiting the 16000+ revs too many times the engine is using oil, but apart from that it's still going strong. Though 4 bikes, 2 mini-bikes and a car is too much for one garage :roll:

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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2009, 11:13:03 PM »
food for thought you get 8 hp with the kit with no other mods thats $140.00 per 1 HP worth it in my book...
So basically a 13% increase in power from a 10% increase in displacement...seems like it's on the right-side of the percentages.
I'm sure with some of those wild carbs you've shown in the past it'd be even greater increases.
Or 2.89 HP per MM bore increase...
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Re: bandit newb in dire need of direction
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2009, 10:22:00 PM »
im looking to do a streetfighter interpretation. so if anyone has a seat cowl, id like to buy it or borrow it so i can lay down a frp mold. its not hard to do and completely safe for the original piece. if not im just gonna chop the tail.  :thumb: