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Berkeley Sports: Berzerkeley Lives! Jul 28, 2008

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Well, the Kumho Tires $2008 Challenge presented by Grassroots Motorsports is approaching rapidly, and there’s still a lot of work to be done on our Berzerkeley. However, we have completed a very important step: The Berzerkeley’s Suzuki GSX-R powerplant came to life over the past weekend.

After chasing sparks through the wiring harness, we finally got the motorcycle ECU to play along with the rest of our electrical system. Completing this step and verifying that our engine would indeed run, we were further impressed by the absolutely angry noises the car made. We haven’t quite installed an exhaust system, either, so it kicked out some pretty impressive flames from the header.

Next, we’ll further clean up the wiring, install the exhaust and refit the fiberglass body shell. We’d also like to tighten up the steering gears a bit before taking the Berzerkeley on the road. That should even leave us some time to test the car before the Challenge.

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Comments

Nashco:

Testing?!? Is that even legal? :)
Jul 28, 2008 1:17 p.m.

Lord_Mulgath:

Hey, I've got a 98 GSX-R 750 engine, fuel injected model, and I haven't been able to get it to start :( It's very similar to the one you guys are using. I haven't been able to get my hands on the kickstand unit to check the resistance, what did you guys come up with? or better yet where did you find the info to trick the ECU into working? I have spent weeks trying to get this thing to work. Please enlighten me! I really want to hear this thing alive again!!
Mar 12, 2009 8:22 p.m.

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Completing this step and verifying that our engine would indeed run, we were further impressed by the absolutely angry noises the car made.