At the drag strip they lowered both bikes and regeared them accordingly. In stock trim, the neutered Busa slugged by at 10.23@140mph while the neutered Ninja popped off a 9.95@144mph.... after the mods the Busa put down a 9.688 but later suffered a clutch failure due to inproper installation of the aftermarket clutch installed previously. The Kawasaki put down a 9.573 on the 2nd pass, then backed it up with a 9.583 on the 3rd pass. The Busa was given the stock plates and a set of stiffer clutch springs, which indeed did the trick and the Busa popped off a 9.559, making the best pass of the day... inching by the Kawasaki by 0.014 seconds. Of course, there were only a few runs done on each bike... surely more passes would have yeilded even better times for both bikes.

On the road test, they found the stock Busa to be somewhat peppier than it looked in the canyons, but with the TRE installed to bypass the limiter, they found the throttle response more abrupt. On the stock Ninja they said the twitchy throttle response through the RPM's made acceleration through corners tougher, but after the pipe/remap all problems were solved and the ZX is said to have transformed into a bike that QUOTE: "Makes a Sunday ZX12R ride in the twisties a much more attractive proposition".