My '06 I've had for 6 years. It has 28,548 miles on it of which I've put about 8,000 of those miles. Over those years, I've installed the raptor petcock, did my own tensioner mod (@25,500 miles), A seat lift of about 1 1/4 ", de-snorkeled the airbox, installed a K&N drop-in filter, and drilled six 3/8 holes along the back edge on each side of the air box. On the exhaust side, I've drilled 4 7/16 holes in the back plate of the muffler. I ported the exhaust side of the head removing most of the restriction. I was concerend about removing all the material all the way out to the exhaust gasket as I believe that the restriction does have a purpose combating a reversion pulse as the exhaust gas exits the port and hits the restriction in the head pipe. I also tried to smooth that transition into the head pipe as best I could without burning through the inner pipe
Prob. wasted effort but... . For the carb, I'm running a 55 pilot, the spacer mod @ about 40% of stock spacer and a 155 main. Idle screw is out about 3/4 turn. From the photo you can see that I've flipped the risers around to accomodate my long arms. Installed a Corbin seat, Progressive 412 shocks, and BikeMaster oval mirrors. The battery box and upper belt guard are plasti-dipped flat black.(lower guard is removed). [edit]: I also have a Trail Tech digital Tach/Hour meter mounted on the handlebars between the risers. I just adjusted the spacers in the front forks to get a proper sag height. Loaded sag height was almost 50% of travel. Now closer to 30%. Much better but probably due for some new springs! Next up may be a stage 3 cam and a custom header pipe.
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