{"id":81268,"date":"2008-10-20T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=81268"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:14","slug":"bandit-1200-with-gsf-1200-cam-full-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081020\/everyday-events\/bandit-1200-with-gsf-1200-cam-full-power","title":{"rendered":"Bandit 1200 with GSF 1200 cam for full power? Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1502360_57032825_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1502360_57032825_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Here&#8217;s an update on the work I reported before \u2605<br \/>\nThe Bandit 1200 and GSF 1200 have different exhaust-side cams.<br \/>\nThis changes the valve timing, and I wondered if that&#8217;s where the power is being held back?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what I thought.<br \/>\nSo we put it on the chassis dynamometer and tested it for real!<br \/>\nBefore: 2008\/02\/23 \u2014 110.8 HP at 9013 RPM<br \/>\nAfter the cam swap: 115.1 HP at 9469 RPM<br \/>\nWe saw a 4.3 HP power increase!<br \/>\nThe torque dropped just a tiny bit, but that&#8217;s charming!<br \/>\nHonestly, you really feel the difference when you ride it. Before, when you opened the throttle, the acceleration felt sluggish,<br \/>\nbut now it goes &#8220;whoooosh&#8221; and takes off.<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s a pretty interesting modification.<br \/>\nBy the way, I wanted pure stock data, so we didn&#8217;t change the jets or anything else \u2605<br \/>\nSorry it&#8217;s not monthly!<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Here&#8217;s an update on the work I reported before \u2605 The Bandit 1200 and GSF 1200 have different exhaust-side cams. This changes the valve timing, and I wondered if that&#8217;s where the power is being held back? That&#8217;s what I thought. So we put it on the chassis dynamometer and tested it for real! Before: 2008\/02\/23 \u2014 110.8 HP at 9013 RPM After the cam swap: 115.1 HP at 9469 RPM We saw a 4.3 HP power increase! The torque dropped just a tiny bit, but that&#8217;s charming! Honestly, you really feel the difference when you ride it. Before, when you opened the throttle, the acceleration felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[1922,156,55],"class_list":["post-81268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bandit","tag-gsf","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}