Aprilia RSV1000 v Kawasaki ZX9R v Suzuki TL1000R on the dyno

Horsepower
comparison in 250 rpm
increments.  The leader
at each stage is coloured accordingly.
Revs RSV
hp		 ZX9
hp		 TLR
hp
4000 44.1 41.8 43.8
4250 48.6 44.5 47.0
4500 53.2 47.4 50.6
4750 58.0 51.0 54.6
5000 60.5 54.4 58.1
5250 63.0 58.1 60.8
5500 64.9 61.3 64.9
5750 65.8 64.1 69.5
6000 67.1 66.6 72.9
6250 70.6 69.3 75.1
6500 76.5 72.5 79.0
6750 82.1 76.7 84.3
7000 87.6 82.4 90.3
7250 91.9 86.6 95.5
7500 93.8 89.3 99.6
7750 94.0 91.7 101.9
8000 94.5 93.3 103.9
8250 97.2 96.1 106.1
8500 101.2 100.4 110.6
8750 103.1 105.0 114.2
9000 105.2 109.4 116.7
9250 107.9 113.8 117.5
9500 109.1 116.1 117.6
9750 108.5 117.0 117.5
10000 108.1 119.3 Limiter
10250 105.7 120.6 Limiter
10500 Limiter 121.0 Limiter
10750 Limiter 122.9 Limiter
11000 Limiter 123.1 Limiter
11250 Limiter 122.7 Limiter
11500 Limiter 121.7 Limiter
11750 Limiter 120.7 Limiter
12000 Limiter 118.9 Limiter

The Aprilia RSV 1000 Mille, Kawasaki ZX9R and Suzuki TL1000R power deliveries are compared here in these tables.

 

You can see quite clearly the wheelie pulling low down grunt of the RSV Aprilia.   I would have started at lower revs to show just how strong the RSV is at even lower revs than these but chain snatch on the dyno prevented me from doing so.

 

The TL gains a clear lead from around 5500 rpm onwards, right up until it's early rev-limiter cuts in around 10,000 rpm.  When peak horsepower has only dropped off by a tenth of a horsepower.  I am sure you can understand why I said that I was banging off the rev-limiter everywhere when I was testing the TL1000R.

 

The ZX9R takes off from the TLRs limiter and holds a higher horsepower figure for over 2000 rpm than either the RSV or TL1000R peak at.

The TL1000R and ZX9R both performed quite a bit better than these figures suggest on the day they were dyno'd. 

However intake temperature was high on the day we tested the Aprilia.  The ZX9R and TL1000R are pegged back accordingly to equalize the field.

Each bike's peak number is coloured yellow.

The leader at each 250 rpm increment is coloured in its header colour.

 

 Torque
comparison in 250
rpm increments.  The
leader at each stage is
coloured accordingly.
Revs RSV
N.M.		 ZX9
N.M.		 TLR
N.M.
4000 78.4 74.5 78.0
4250 81.5 74.6 78.7
4500 84.2 75.0 80.1
4750 87.0 76.5 81.8
5000 86.1 77.4 82.7
5250 85.4 78.7 82.5
5500 84.0 79.4 84.1
5750 81.5 79.4 86.0
6000 79.6 79.1 86.5
6250 80.4 78.9 85.6
6500 83.8 79.5 86.5
6750 86.6 81.0 88.9
7000 89.1 83.9 91.8
7250 90.2 85.1 93.8
7500 89.1 84.8 94.6
7750 86.3 84.3 93.6
8000 84.1 83.0 92.5
8250 83.9 82.9 91.6
8500 84.0 84.1 92.7
8750 83.9 85.4 93.0
9000 83.3 86.5 92.4
9250 83.1 87.6 90.4
9500 81.8 87.0 88.1
9750 79.3 85.4 85.8
10000 77.0 85.0 Limiter
10250 73.4 83.8 Limiter
10500 37.7 82.0 Limiter
10750 Limiter 81.4 Limiter
11000 Limiter 79.7 Limiter
11250 Limiter 77.7 Limiter
11500 Limiter 75.4 Limiter
11750 Limiter 73.2 Limiter
12000 Limiter 70.5 Limiter
This first dyno chart is a 4th gear power run with the RSV traced against a ZX9R and TL1000R.  

The ZX9R and TL1000R had been tested on a different day so we used some correction factors to bring their power down to allow for the higher intake temperature etc. that the RSV had to cope with. 

The RSV leads the race until 5,500 rpm when the TL takes over, then 4000rpm later the ZX9R overtakes the TLR and carries a clear advantage for the the final 3000 rpm, as the TLR bangs it's limiter around 10,000 while the RSV is around 10,500 rpm.  Peaks in these equalised conditions were 123 for the ZX9R, 115 for the TLR and 109 for the RSV.

 Aprilia RSV1000 v Kawasaki ZX9R v Suzuki TL1000R on the dyno - power (6k)
Aprilia RSV1000 v Kawasaki ZX9R v Suzuki TL1000R on the dyno - torque (6k)

This is a torque run using the same correction factors as before.

The RSV takes off on a wheelie pulling hit of torque at 4000 rpm which lifts the front wheel under throttle in first second, even third if you get it right.  At 4500 rpm the RSV makes the same amount of torque as the ZX9R does at its peak of 88 at 9,500 rpm.  That should give you some understanding of the low down stomp of the RSV.

At around 6000 rpm the RSV has a big dip (the optional Aprilia Race muffler fixes this)   which see the TLR take over, the RSV recovers a bit between 6,500 and 7,500, but after 7,500 the TLR clears off in the distance.

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