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Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:40 am
by Cammo
I guess you really need to work out what you want if it's a roadbike as well.

Most decent race setups for these bikes won't use any sort of air filter, as soon as you start using a filter you'll be negating some of the benefits of ram air or hrc carb setups IMO. FWIW my race bike (full nc30 hrc carbs) would be fairly unrideable on the road, i.e. it doesn't like to sit at even revs and just wants to rev through.

Is it an option for you to change carb settings for race use? If so I would go for the rvf hrc carb setup. A Rick Oliver replica parts set and a replica hrc airbox lid would be a good start. Then you could always use some sort of filetr and slightly smaller jets for road use.

If you want ram air you can do nearly all of the carb mods yourself but you'll need a ram air box/snorkel and an electric fuel pump. Again, probably not something you would be wanting to use on the road.

I'm really happy with my nc30 hrc carb setup, it gives a good increase in power but probably more importantly it gives a lot better torque curve over an sort of standard setups. It keeps up no problems with the typical 650's here in Aus on the straights.

Just my 2c.

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:16 am
by Joeblogs
Hey,

Cheers for that, sorry for the confusion, I only use it on the track, I have a 07 Tuono R for the road. Does rick do a ram air, air boxs and snorkle?

Also is the snorkle the aluminum inlet thing that comes out over the radiator.

Cheers for all your feed back, been very helpful

Jb

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:35 am
by superlite
Joeblogs wrote:Cheers for that, sorry for the confusion, I only use it on the track, I have a 07 Tuono R for the road. Does rick do a ram air, air boxs and snorkle?

Also is the snorkle the aluminum inlet thing that comes out over the radiator.
Rick doesn't do a ramair kit. You can get HRC repro airbox lids that go with an undertray, but the HRC set-up never used ramair, so you'd be best to check out after market ramair kits from RLR and similar.

The snorkle is that rubber thing on the front of the standard airbox. Most ramair kits use fibreglass lids that have a longer one that comes down and out the top of the radiator.

Here's a pic of a ramair lid (slightly bodged up and on the extreme side!).

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Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:48 am
by Joeblogs

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:53 am
by CMSMJ1
sales@bmcracing.co.uk - drop Mike a line..

They also do 6.5 litre tanks from alloy with fibreglass over etc.

you want to email them and see what they can do.

Some of the fastest RVFs in UK are made by Mike so he knows his shit.

*might sound I am pimping them up - but rightly so, as my first ever races were on one of the RVFs and it was bonkers! - really nice gang of people to deal with too..*

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:54 am
by superlite
Joeblogs wrote:Would one like this be good? http://www.akhara.com/nc30/nc35hrcairbox/index.html

Jb
That's the NC35 HRC airbox lid and will work a treat if you do the rest of the HRC 35 mods (slide springs, velocity stacks, needles, jets, etc.). It's still not overly difficult to get those parts these days (in fact there was a full kit on eBay last week).

But it's not a pressurised ramair set-up, so depends what you're after.

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:57 am
by Drunkn Munky
This is a Ram air box made made ANR i belive
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There also known by some as HRC replica boxes so weather or not they can be used with the HRC setup i dont know.

Heres how they fit, notice it exits above a dropped rad.
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You can also see the fuel pump mounted on the rear subframe

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:43 am
by Neosophist
ZXR400 fuel pump?

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:50 am
by Drunkn Munky
Neosophist wrote:ZXR400 fuel pump?
Dont know TBH but i hear ZXR pumps are used.

Re: HRC carb upgrade

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:36 am
by superlite
Loving the carbon Kevlar 8-)