Newb 09 gsxr750 quickshifter install

[MVLUV]

Been surfing this forum for a few months since a link to RORZ's build was sent from a work mate.
So after wasting an enormous amount of my employers time I thought I would introduce myself via a thread.
I have always been into cars and bikes, Jap,Euro,Aussie whatever with the exception of Harley's. Just don't get them. Now I'm also into Hakosuka's thanks to you know who.
My own car history is uninspiring bordering on embarrassing so we will go straight to the bikes.

Started with one of these

Then the MV in the same pic




Then one of these



Then the Gsxr which I have done about 12 trackdays on. Its standard except for the pipe and shorty levers.



Since I have been doing more trackdays I thought a quickshifter would be a handy mod. So I ordered one of these.

I looked at a few including dynojet, bazzaz and some dodgy no-name ones. The selling features of the Annitori were the strain guage type switch with no moving parts, ability to use in race pattern or street, the plug and play with no loom splicing and the fact it is stand alone as I don't need mixture control or TC or any of that other stuff.
So started with removing the tank and seat


Removed the air box and located the coils which are individual for each cylinder on these things.

The above pic shows the coil loom already connected. They come with a male and female plug that go in line with the plug you remove to the coil.Easy.
Next, ran the sensitivity indicator and ground lead to the under seat area. Also ran the strain guage to the shift position.
I measured the shift rod position as I like it just where it is.

Connect coil loom to strain guage and indicator loom via plugs.
Get some help if you need to

Connect ground to battery

Tidy up and cable tie all cables securely as the loom runs past throttle actuator, and leave some slack on the strain guage for shifting.
Set up is pretty simple. You turn the ignition on and off three times and the fourth time you leave the key on.
The three leds on the indicator now under my seat scroll through from the green one to the amber to the red. When the desired led/sensitivity is illuminated you turn the key off and it is maintained in that setting until you go through the set up procedure again.

This adjustment is for strain guage sensitivity only the ignition cut time stays the same. Annitori won't tell you what the cut time is but the magic number seems to be around the 60 millisecond mark.

Air box, tank and seat back on and we are good to go.
I havn't had a chance to test ride yet but a quick check shifting gears at idle showed a definite ignition cut.
So hope to test in the next couple of days.
Then some more of this.

[Uncle]

Nice list of bikes.
Welcome to the forum.

[rorz]

Hey buddy


Was good to meet you at Phillip Island a little while back. Be glad you went with the Annitori/HM quickshifter, I'm still having major problems with my Dynojet/Powercommander one. Haveboxed it all up and sent it back to the US, now they're being dodgy about refunding my money... they want to send me back the quickshifter that doesn't work.... and have me pay for postage. Fucking wankers...

Let us know how you go with it. From what I hear though, they are the best quickshifter around and used by shitload of race teams so it should be sweet.

[MVLUV]

Hey buddy


Was good to meet you at Phillip Island a little while back. Be glad you went with the Annitori/HM quickshifter, I'm still having major problems with my Dynojet/Powercommander one. Haveboxed it all up and sent it back to the US, now they're being dodgy about refunding my money... they want to send me back the quickshifter that doesn't work.... and have me pay for postage. Fucking wankers...

Let us know how you go with it. From what I hear though, they are the best quickshifter around and used by shitload of race teams so it should be sweet.

That sux mate, not good for business pissing off someone that races as word travels fast around paddocks.
So I got a chance to take it for a half hour ride and my first impression was how direct and abrupt it is. My only reference is from a k1300 BMW quickshifter that was silky smooth and almost like a slush box in a car.
It is a real kick in the pants feeling with not a lot of mechanical sympathy. I reckon it will be the bizz on the track but it is not something I will use around town as I think chain and sprockets will suffer and it is just smoother with the clutch. Although it could be useful if your having a red hot go at the traffic light drags.

[MVLUV]

Finally got the chance to do a track day a couple of weeks ago to properly test out the quick shifter. Seems the faster you go the smoother it feels. I was concerned that on the track where you shift at or near peak power the shift would be pretty abrupt. This was not the case, all shifts were clean and smooth and each straight was a bit of a break as you just shift when the needle hits 14k or so.
I also found I was up about 10kph at end of the two straights (Queensland Raceway) which indicates the compounding effect of fast, smooth shifting. Also indicates how crap my previous shifting was.

[Nathan Tinkler]

Welcome mate. Ten kays is insane.

[rorz]

*Wants a quickshifter*


They sound tough as well. You can really hear them on bikes with full systems at the track. Oh well, at least I got my money back on the Dynojet unit I had.