Does anyone have a BEC as thier daily driver?

If so,how many clicks do you log a day?

Reliable?

Complaints?

Mine is a daily drive when the British weather allows ( but you being in Texas wont have that problem ). Last year in between june 21st and november i covered over 3500 miles.
It will be as reliable as you build it, and I certainly have no complaints.

[Edited on 14/3/04 by Brooky]

Can't coment on the daily drive yet (SVA in a few weeks), but have hammered mine all day long at 6 track days with nothing but a dead fuel pump (now carry a spare) and , due to my own inexpereince in driving these things, a knackered 4th gear. And that's with screaming the thing all day and being very heavy on the brakes. Ran the oil to 120 deg with no problems. Hardly even used any tyre tread, even with copious tail slides. Seems very reliable to me.

Bike engines are probably more reliable that most CEC's as the japs know something about putting an engine together. The rest is, as Brooky says, down to how well you build it.

Jasper, to save us knackering 4th gear, can you explain further?????

Changing down is where you can get the problem. You can't use engine braking - like in a car, you either have to scrub off all the speed to change down at lower revs, or heel and toe and blip the acclerator to match the gear/engine speeds. On my first track day I changed down from 5th to 4th too often too hard, and eventually the gear change became klonky and then very hard to engage.

It's a known problem, especially with the early B & C type ZX9 box. The later E box is stronger and suffers from this less.

its not really worth heel and toeing in a bec, because you dont have the engine braking of a car engine the car will not be upset by the sudden drive speed change.
you also stand a bigger risk of ko ing your engine.