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ENGINE MODIFICATIONS
"All
engines Jimmy won races on were built by one of our Supersport motor
builders, Mike Fargnoli, explains Landers. We are sponsored by Giannelli
racing exhausts and all the systems we use on our bikes are right
off the shelf. We use the Yoshimura EMS units for programming the
Fuel Injection. That's pretty much it for the engines"
The only internal
engine modifications allowed in AMA Supersport is careful reworking
and blending of the valve seats in the heads for maxium flow. The
750cc SuperSport class is pretty much a level playing field between
Suzuki factory supported privateer teams. No one gets to spend any
time in the parts warehouse at American Suzuki, carefully measuring
and selecting production parts like heads and cylinders that are at
the far end of approved production tollerances for a slight advantage
in increased compression or reduced friction. The same certainly doesn't
hold true for the even more competive 600cc SuperSport class were
all the major manufacturers are involved in a battle for supremacy
with their top factory riders.
"We use
only USE Maxima lubricants in our bikes," explains Landers. "No
other other oil companies can give us the engine protection or performance
gains that we get with Maxima racing oils. The other oil guys all
claim to be the best - but after winning all our championships and
hundreds of races with zero oil related engine problems - we will
continue to rely on Maxima exclusively.
"For racing fuel which we have to foot the bill for, Nutec Special
5 is our fuel of choice."
BRAKE
MODIFICATIONS
"Though we prefered to use the Braking
Wave Rotors in 2001 due to their light weight, we had to use the Suzuki
Origional Equipment rotors, again in 2002, due to the rules and regulations
of the class. Our choice of brake pad was Brakings CM 66, and CM 55.
Nothing gave Jimmy the braking power or confidence as the Braking
pads....and we tried type brake pad available. The rear brake rotor
was lightened by Bill McCue at TCM products (formerly WRM)."
DUNLOP
TIRES
"Dunlop 208's and 209's were used throughout the
season. Pressures varied from track to track but mostly were in the
range of 30psi front and 30psi rear."
HANDLING
"All suspension tuning was done by Jim Lindemann of Lindemann
Engineering. Jim has worked with us for years and has been instrumental
to our winning three National Championships as well as several endurance
titles. Stock forks as required by rules with Lindemann internal mod's.
We use Ohlins rear which are shocks also tuned by Lindemann. Jimmy's
specific chassis spec's and set up data from track to track is proprietary
to the team"
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OTHER
GOODIES
The main stays we used (the guage and upper cowl support) were manufactured
by GP Tech. Reasonably priced, durable and very light. They also have
replacement components for their brackets that in the event of crashes
would allow us to change just one side, or one "ear" if
need be instea d of the whole bracket. It saved us time making repairs
and it saved us money cause we were'nt always having to buy the entire
bracket when one suffered only
minor damage.
Steering dampers we used were Ohlins. Simply the best out there.
Chains were off-the-shelf EK 520 chains and we used PBI sprockets.
Motion Pro hooked us up with virtually indestructable, long life clutch
cables and throttle cables, as well as the majority of the tools that
the crew used.
Rearsets and foot controls on Jimmy's bikes were manufactured by TCM
products (the same guys who lightened our rear brake rotors). Majorly
durable components and simple no non-sense design. We also used PPTuning
rearsets which we purchased from Fred Renz at Yoyodyne. Fully adjustable
levers and lightweight trick units. PPTuning clip ons were also used.
Our painting was done in-house by our staff painter Jason Stowe and
we used Sharkskinz bodywork and fasteners. We used standard height
Zero Gravity windscreens because the optical clarity of Zero Gravity
screens is unmatched.
All decals were purchased through Bellco Inc...a local company in
Alabama who specializes in specialy sign work for motorcyle racing
teams. Chris Bell is our contact....a real stand up guy. Reliable,
reasonably priced, and enthusiastic about anything involving racing
and motorcycles.
To protect the bikes and bodywork when they hit the ground we used
frame savers manufactured by PPTuning which were also purchased from
Yoyodyne. The frame savers are unigue in the fact that they have replaceble
thread on plastic mushroomed ends which obviuosly means you only replace
the damaged plastic portion if the bike goes down as opposed to the
entire frame saver. Again, it saved us critical time and also money
when our bikes would go
down.
All crew communication equipment (radios and headsets) were built
by an english company, Autocom, which is distributed here in the U.S.
by Top Gear Accessories in New York. Awesome quality and an essential
component when relaying and recording rider data from different segments
of the track as well as signaling info.
Yoshimura
R&D of America
4555 Carter Court, Chino, CA 91710
Phone: (909) 628.4722 • Fax: (909) 591.2198
www.yoshimura-rd.com
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new Penske, Fox, White Power Suspension (408) 371.6151
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/ Ohlins (714) 630.4777
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