BiKenG

I'm sure they can be made to work. Wiring will just require connecting the right stuff and same 7/8" handlebars so should be possible to physically fit them. However, both those tasks may require some thought and modification to make fit. I doubt it will be simply plug and play, but I see no reason why they cannot be made to work.

I seem to have finally been able to change my email address for the forum (so different servers in the route for any notifications to me) and this morning I received a correctly formatted notification from a different thread, so rather looks like one of the intermediate servers used for my former address was having the dmarc problem. However, it does suggest there is an actual problem with this site's email. I've just been able to sidestep it. Have to see how things continue.

Logged out of the site and back in and I am now able to post without problem. No idea what the actual problem was, but it's specific to this site. As I say, everything else works perfectly. Also cannot really say if this morning's problem is related to the email notification/mime problem which is still occurring.

Nope, same sparse HTML. It's not interpreting the mime format at all. Also, this morning I was unable to reply to this topic. I click on reply and I see the box to type in the reply but that immediately disappears and back to the original page for the topic. I restarted Safari (I'm on a Mac), but no better. Tried it on another Mac and that worked. Tried Google Chrome on my Mac and seemed to be OK, but not logged in. Logged in and get same problem again. Back to main forum page (in Chrome) and then to this topic again (no more login parameters in URL) and it works so I am able to type this. Since everything else is working perfectly as always, I can only assume that this site has made some changes which are screwing up some users.

Recently, all notifications I receive regarding new messages to a followed thread (may not be limited to just this one thread) are just pages of HTML code, rather than the formatted message. I have not changed anything my end and all other email is working fine, but VFRD notifications are garbage. Looking at the raw message I see the following:- X-Spf: ⁨Received-SPF: permerror (smtp04.mailcore.me: error in processing during lookup of domain of vfrdiscussion.com: Could not find a valid SPF record) and lower down:- Authentication-Results: ⁨dmarc.icloud.com; dmarc=fail header.from=vfrdiscussion.com⁩ Authentication-Results: ⁨dkim-verifier.icloud.com; dkim=fail reason="key not found in DNS" (0-bit key) header.d=vfrdiscussion.com I don't know for sure this is new as VFRD notifications have not previously been a problem causing me to check. Have there been any changes to the notification messages that might be causing this? Anyone else seeing it? Hopefully any reply here will not suffer the same problem.

If you're referring to Mohawk's bike, then that would be wrong-ish. Their profile is not stock at all (based on RC45), but I seem to recall he had stock cams reground rather than completely new manufactured items. I could be wrong about that last though. I do however think we are straying way off topic here and we should really be sticking to the WILD exhaust system. I am far from blameless in this I know, but I think we should get back on track and curtail our 'flights of fancy'.

Ah but wouldn't be VTEC then would it. 😀

Can't disagree with you at all there. 😀

Don't believe everything you read. Fuel consumption of the VFR1200 is not the problem idiot journalists made it out to be. Not a problem at all.

Yes I get the customise thing, as Mohawk will testify, I'm not a standard bike kinda guy either. But trying to extract huge power increases, to me means I started with the wrong bike. Particularly as actual engine performance has virtually nothing to do with how fast I may, or can ride.

Doesn't have to be anything like a pig. My eVo4's plenty nimble and fast enough. Just ask Mohawk. 😀

Mohawk is not at 140. More like 120 something, I forget exactly what. I've ridden with him and it's a nice quick bike. I still wonder though at trying to make a bike go faster. Seems a bit of a fool's errand. Why not just buy the faster bike in the first place. Not like they're in short supply and nothing, I mean NOTHING will ever make a VFR800 go like e.g. a FireBlade. Or a VFR1200 come to think of it.

In simple terms, max. power only determines top speed. Torque determines how quickly you get there.

Sadly, whenever a manufacturer says they 'retuned' an engine with the implication that they may have dropped power, but increased torque, the reality is usually they simply lopped off the top end, with maybe a slighter fatter torque curve, but rarely is it actually higher. Don't get carried away with thoughts of the apparent extra power of the 'F' model though. Horsepower only determines top speed. Torque is what gets you there.

Well the ECU has complete control, as we know from multiple ride modes on other bikes that can cap the performance. The smaller diam. headers on the CrossTourer will increase torque while restricting top end power and with different ECU mapping that's all that's required to change the engine characteristics. You can check, but I'm pretty sure that when I did I found the pistons, heads, cams and intake stuff is the same on both bikes. Makes huge sense from a manufacturing point of view.