-1 in the front

I have a 2003 VFR, has anyone tried going down one tooth on the front sprocket? If so does it make much of a difference and would you recommend it? Thanks for you help!!

 

anyone try this?

 

Dont know fro the newer ones, but sure help performance on the older VFRs.
A clearer hed saying what you mean "one teeth down on frontspocket?" might give more anwsers as then all know what you looking for direct.

 

It will help performance in the accelleration dept. You will turn higher revs at a lower ground speed, and you would need to get a speedo healer to correct the reading on the speedo. I went up 2 (+2) on the rear on mine and the speed reads fast by about 10 mph. Keep in mind the going down 1 tooth (-1) on the front is about the same as going up 3 (+3) on the back. You will lose top-end speed, but gain in bottom end performance. Also your mpg wil probably go down too.

 

I have an 04' with one tooth down in front. I never rode the bike without it though so I'm no help. It pulls good though when you flog it it'll rip. I have thought of swapping it out to solve speedo without putting on more stuff.

how easy is the healer anyway? They always say its easy, but I'm a freakin' hack...:yo:

 

I have one. It is very easy to install and they have great directions with plenty of photos. They also have a calculator where you can plug in the factory speedo error in addition to whatever gearing changes you have made. The calculator then kicks out the values that you need to set on the unit.

 

I went this route on the Hawk GT. I went down 1 on the front & up 2 on the rear. This did wonders for keeping the bike in the useful power band. When you have a bike that makes 47HP this is a very good mod.

On a VFR, unless you are not happy with the bike's acceleration, I wouldn't bother. A 5th gen put down about 95HP to the wheel, will easily break the speed limit in all 50 states & still returns 47mpg (at least mine will on long rides). It does this while being as reliable as the sun rise. Why mess with a system that works? You're never going to make a VFR behave like a race-replica. If you do this, instead of doing 11.5 in the 1/4, now it might do 11.2.

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