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Calling all you owners of black storms to a show and tell pics and improvement list
Here is mine

1997 44000 miles

Performance

High level race exhaust
Dyno jet k&n
Stick coils
Dr Honda velocity stacks
Tps set to 430 ohms
Restricter remover from headers
Lightened flywheel

Suspension

Fireblade front end
New rear shock
5mm shock spacer
Renthal bars

Brakes
Cbr600f4i front calipers and master cylinder
Spazo levers
Goodridge lines all round

Cosmetic

Under tray
Belly pan
Fireblade mudguard
Seat cowl

Over to you

looks very nice and loads of mods ,i would love to put blade frontend on mine but i dont know how easy it would be ,mine is totaly standard at the mo.

my bike as it is now

,got carbon engine protectors , blade front end 50mil upside down fully adjustables ,blade wheel discs brakes ,brand new levers new adjustable clip ons braided lines krieger cct's twin h/light conversion, piper filter and a sh1t load o new bolts to go on over next couple o month(aint in a hurry its £"^%$ freezin),, ps always on the look out for a watanabe tank

Restrictors in the headers? Explain please!!

On the right hand exit of the headers there is a large piece that need removing
If you remove the rhs link pipe and look down the exhaust in to the headers you will see it

Ooh something else for me to attempt!

Cheers Lloydie.

lloydiecbr wrote:On the right hand exit of the headers there is a large piece that need removing
If you remove the rhs link pipe and look down the exhaust in to the headers you will see it

There is a long running debate that this is not a restriction left there through laziness, but it is a design feature to match the pipe lengths / resonance / gas flow kind of thing. And removing it has a -ve effect on midrange.

So have a good read before you get the file out.

i get the feeling honda knows best on this one, unless it was cheaper and easier to manufacture the exhaust in such a way that you had that little piece of metal left there.. i have spoken to a forum member who took it out of his exhaust and he said there was an improvement, so who knows, unless someone dyno's there bike first and then again after removing that bit of metal, we will never know for sure....