Number864;128276 wrote: I don't plan on racing so I'm not concerned about it being legal. I can always put the flywheel back (I would assume) if I'm not happy or I decide to race in the future. I just was curious if anyone had done this to their bike and has any tips or pitfalls to watch out for.
After I laid down my bike at Putnam a few weeks ago, my cheap plastics shattered and I destroyed the rectifier wiring harness and I was forced to operate at a total loss for the rest of the weekend. And then a week later at Mid-Ohio, I found out that my stator had a short and was only getting about half-output. From the experience, my advice: don't.
I was unable to keep ahead of it charging it between sessions all day. My biggest issue, after I became religious about getting it on the charger immediately, was that by the end of the day, starting the bike was a one-shot deal. If you were racing, then whatever, you only need to start it once. But, this is a track day, and you might find yourself sitting for extended periods of time (e.g., trying to have a conversation with a CR after a session), and you will find out that your battery is no longer strong enough to start the thing. This happened to me a few times, and I had to push my bike across the paddock.
I simply cannot imagine the potential performance gain would be worth the completely obnoxious failure modes of a total loss system. (I just bought a new stator, because I'm not gonna keep doing it.)