If I recall correctly, my bike shows 3,000 rpm at 70mph, give or take. So at 9,000 rpms that would equate to 210 mph. The Carpenter package doesn't make enough hp to get there. However, I wouldn't run more than 140 anyway, unless I was at a track and had full gear on. So anything above 6,000 rpm in fifth gear for me is wasted. If gearing would allow 9,000 rpm at say 150 mph, now that would be worth the cost of the package to me. Then I could use all the rpm's in all the gears, not just the first three. That would be a real "bruiser."
I am not against having more rpm or more horsepower, I like them just fine (and spend a great deal of my time looking for them beyond R3's.) Nor am I telling anybody else that one is preferable to the other. Neither have I said that the Carpenter package isn't smooth or tractable. It is that my intent was to not open up the motor (change cams or porting/valves) for now but to make as much average hp as I could with just a pipe and intake changes.
I am not against having more rpm or more horsepower, I like them just fine (and spend a great deal of my time looking for them beyond R3's.) Nor am I telling anybody else that one is preferable to the other. Neither have I said that the Carpenter package isn't smooth or tractable. It is that my intent was to not open up the motor (change cams or porting/valves) for now but to make as much average hp as I could with just a pipe and intake changes.
