afpreppie04
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As far as I know, no one has done this yet, but it is common knowledge that the R6S makes about 20hp more than our beloved FZ. Given that the engine itself is the same (except the cams and thinner head gasket) the difference lies in the external parts, and looking through the lists of differences floating around and parts fiches that would be the larger throttle bodies, fuel control, aforementioned cams and head gasket, headers, intake box, ecu, wiring harness, and a few sensors. The gauge cluster would also have to be replaced.
Since there were so many 03-05 R6 and newer R6Ss made parts are pretty cheap used. After doing a little looking around the majority of the different parts (essentially everything except additional sensors) can be found for about $500 total. It would involve a lot of work changing over the main wiring harness and everything, and there would doubtless be some modifying required, but for less than the price of a new slip-on exhaust a much larger power gain could be found.
I am thinking I might start gathering parts for next winter's project. Since I will be due for my valve adjustment anyway I was going to try the R6 cam swap, so this would be more of an extra step (or 12).
Am I missing something completely obvious here in what I have found? It will of course be a lot of work, but I enjoy working on things, it is what I do for a living, just on cars. And finally I realize I could have just bought an R6 so no need to bring it up.
Since there were so many 03-05 R6 and newer R6Ss made parts are pretty cheap used. After doing a little looking around the majority of the different parts (essentially everything except additional sensors) can be found for about $500 total. It would involve a lot of work changing over the main wiring harness and everything, and there would doubtless be some modifying required, but for less than the price of a new slip-on exhaust a much larger power gain could be found.
I am thinking I might start gathering parts for next winter's project. Since I will be due for my valve adjustment anyway I was going to try the R6 cam swap, so this would be more of an extra step (or 12).
Am I missing something completely obvious here in what I have found? It will of course be a lot of work, but I enjoy working on things, it is what I do for a living, just on cars. And finally I realize I could have just bought an R6 so no need to bring it up.