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Pods, 4-1, Jet kit: Should I do it?

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Fact is, from where I stand, if you pay the money and get a DJ-kit and K&N pods...there is no question about success (don't know what type of exhaust you're runnin'). Your bike WILL run perfectly. The engineers that designed these fairly high priced items wouldn't have a job if they were sellin' "guess-work".

The kits and pods absolutely work together...the only problem people run into is when they try to save a few bucks by guessing at the jets or needle settings. If you pay the $230.00 or so bucks for a DJ-kit adn K&N pods your bike will run wonderfully. In absolute fact........if you don't have a 4-1 exhaust...all you have to do is remove the mufflers and run it on straight headers (I can get by with that up here in the secluded mountains).

I truly have never run a Stage 3 DJ-kit with pods and a stock exhaust....but I'm sure someone here has. Truly, again, with the price of gas, unless you live in a major metro-area I can't believe that anyone would have a problem with you riding and being a little loud. (Of course you might...the republicans are still in charge..and I'm pretty sure that they think that it is better to drive a gas guzzlin' tahoe than a gas saving motorcycle.)
(Riding a gas saving motorcycle, that is a bit loud, but saves gas, doesn't allow them to the much needed priviledge/attention of 'showing off' in their self-absorbant tanks.)

Good luck: sorry about the politics......but since W. has taken over, my life as an educator has been hell (poverty and total lack of respect will anger a blue collar highly educated man). I can't escape him or it.

Good luck..if you need any help just ask: kid
 
Kid,

Thanks man, I'm ordering stuff tonight. I am getting a 4-1 V&H, K&N Pods, and DJ Stage 3. I can't wait...
 
dtkid said:
Fact is, from where I stand, if you pay the money and get a DJ-kit and K&N pods...there is no question about success (don't know what type of exhaust you're runnin'). Your bike WILL run perfectly. The engineers that designed these fairly high priced items wouldn't have a job if they were sellin' "guess-work".

The kits and pods absolutely work together...the only problem people run into is when they try to save a few bucks by guessing at the jets or needle settings. If you pay the $230.00 or so bucks for a DJ-kit adn K&N pods your bike will run wonderfully. In absolute fact........if you don't have a 4-1 exhaust...all you have to do is remove the mufflers and run it on straight headers (I can get by with that up here in the secluded mountains).

I truly have never run a Stage 3 DJ-kit with pods and a stock exhaust....but I'm sure someone here has. Truly, again, with the price of gas, unless you live in a major metro-area I can't believe that anyone would have a problem with you riding and being a little loud. (Of course you might...the republicans are still in charge..and I'm pretty sure that they think that it is better to drive a gas guzzlin' tahoe than a gas saving motorcycle.)
(Riding a gas saving motorcycle, that is a bit loud, but saves gas, doesn't allow them to the much needed priviledge/attention of 'showing off' in their self-absorbant tanks.)

Good luck: sorry about the politics......but since W. has taken over, my life as an educator has been hell (poverty and total lack of respect will anger a blue collar highly educated man). I can't escape him or it.

Good luck..if you need any help just ask: kid
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I beg to differ. This is not exacting science. They use a mathmatical formula, and some on hand testing to come up with what they sell, and what they sell IS IN FACT educated guess work. No two bikes are the same. They could be the same models from the same years with the same set up and have drasticly different jetting settings. There are too many variables to deal with. Atmospheric conditions, temperature, altitude, state of tune, inexactness of build.. .the list goes on. Will your bike run follwing their design? Most surely. Will it run well? Maybe. Maybe not. It may not run well at all. Not to mention the fact that in YOUR case you are dealing with a, well known by many many before you with greater knowlege than you and I both on the particular model, historicly finicky bike with regards to podding. I am not trying to disuade you in any way in doing this. I am very much PRO pipe and pods in a given situation. I just dont want to see you turn into yet another of the countless who have done such modification only to find the bike DOESNT run the way they expected it to, and become greatly frustrated, put off and dispondant by the amount of NECESSARY tuning to get the bike right. Keep in mind, my bike is BONE BONE STOCK. Not an intake or exhaust mod to be seen, and i have played with the STOCK jetting, the jetting put into the bike by the DESIGNER OF THE BIKE, because I didnt like the way it ran. I just now think i have gotten it very close, and I have been playing with it for well over 3 months now. And again, I stress, I have done NOTHING to it to change things like you are about to. Like I said, it just really comes down to deciding WHAT EXACTLY it is you expect and want from the machine....
 
CafeKid:

I reckon I've just been lucky. I've never had any trouble with the DJ-kits and pod set-up.

However, I'm not one that takes my machines to the track or tries to squeeze the absolute max. performance out of them either.
 
Oh yeah:

For me....I initially purchased the K&N pods to be able to remove the airbox. The bike is sooo much easier to work on (access to wiring and battery box and obviously, carbs) and, fact is, I think they look COOOOOLL MAN.

Opting for pods necessitated the need for the DJ-kits! That is why I started "Podding" and "Re-jetting" my rides.

In agreement with you, Cafe, I don't think the small increase in performance is worth the cost in funds.........I don't even operate my machines at their top-end!!
 
Well UPS misrouted my jet kit and it's now been rescheduled for tomorrow...
And tomorrow after work I'm going to the dentist....dang....
 
So...

Something came up which prevents me from getting the whole shabang... For now.

I also figure I want to be on the road yet this season and not have my bike in my garage anymore. BUT!!! This winter is when I plan on doing the modifications. I am sold on it.

Thanks all for talking to me about it. I feel as though I can make and informed decision on it.
 
Craiger said:
I hope you got the bike cheap.
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Not as cheap as I would have liked (500$). There was no paint on the chain when I bought it, but when I emailed the PO for the picture
of it from the craigslist ad for paint comparison (as I had forgotten to take a pic with the bike all put together before starting the tear down) he sent all the pics he had. It was then that I saw the 'ingenious' artistry. That and digging into it I've found more and more out of spec, but it was running, registered and ridable when I bought her.

Skyboy8950 said:
I'll paint my new pipes and Pods green to match my bike.

Will I have to rejet again when I paint my pods?
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Hahahaha.:D No rejetting, just drain some headlight coolant out to compensate

Baatfam said:
Your Grandpa was a wise man....
Green bikes, (and cars), are bad luck...
I won't own 'em, drive 'em or ride 'em....

(Does that make me an "old timer"?)

I've been looking for a 2000-2002 Kawasaki ZRX and they are almost all green...
I'd pass up the greatest deal if it's green.....

Later,
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My bike is going to be green, wood sprites be damned.
Besides, this is the year for GREEN:D
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If you are going to play with your bike in winter, have a think about puting some GSXR carbs on it thay will make it go. go for 1052cc 34mm carbs, 1127cc 36mm carbs or GSXR750 g,h,j flatslids made my GS feel like a new bike:D
 
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