old450rider
08-31-2006, 11:49 AM
Okay, here's the deal.....
I purchased (and had installed) the HRC kit for my new ('05) 450R. When I went to pick it up they gave me back the box with the stock parts in it. So I was out looking in the box today, and the jet bags (both) were unopened and the cam was in the bubble wrap with the top torn off but stapled shut. Now maybe I'm just the suspicious type, but it seems to me that they, at the very least, didn't install the jets that came with the kit. At the very worst, they didn't intall anything but the accelerator pump and snorkle and K&N filter I also purchased (oh, and the pipe end cap).
Another thing that makes me wonder is that they didn't have it done on the day they said it would be done because the didn't have the correct cam shims to put in. I had to wait until they got those in so they could install the cam.
So I guess I have a couple of questions in regards to this (before I go storming in and make an absolute fool out of myself).
1. Would the bike run right without a re-jet after installing a K&N filter and end cap from the HRC kit?
2. Is there anyway to tell the HRC cam from the OEM cam?
3. Is there any other way to tell if the work was actually performed?
I have only run the bike up the street a block or so, I haven't had a chance to get out and really run it yet, so I don't know if the performance is suffering or better or what.
So, can anyone help me out here?
I purchased (and had installed) the HRC kit for my new ('05) 450R. When I went to pick it up they gave me back the box with the stock parts in it. So I was out looking in the box today, and the jet bags (both) were unopened and the cam was in the bubble wrap with the top torn off but stapled shut. Now maybe I'm just the suspicious type, but it seems to me that they, at the very least, didn't install the jets that came with the kit. At the very worst, they didn't intall anything but the accelerator pump and snorkle and K&N filter I also purchased (oh, and the pipe end cap).
Another thing that makes me wonder is that they didn't have it done on the day they said it would be done because the didn't have the correct cam shims to put in. I had to wait until they got those in so they could install the cam.
So I guess I have a couple of questions in regards to this (before I go storming in and make an absolute fool out of myself).
1. Would the bike run right without a re-jet after installing a K&N filter and end cap from the HRC kit?
2. Is there anyway to tell the HRC cam from the OEM cam?
3. Is there any other way to tell if the work was actually performed?
I have only run the bike up the street a block or so, I haven't had a chance to get out and really run it yet, so I don't know if the performance is suffering or better or what.
So, can anyone help me out here?