I've been building up to today for a couple weeks. First off, lots of miles in the last few months. Time to change the spark plugs again. That alone made a massive difference to how smooth she runs and starts.
The plugs weren't gone, but had worn to the point that the gaps were way off. Over 8k miles in the last six months. Maybe six thousand since I put the last plugs in. For the cost of new NGK plugs, I counted it as a no-brainer.
One of my previous days off, I spent riding around and collecting parts. I ran all over. The parts finally came together from Ace Hardware and five auto-parts stores in two different towns. Lowe's and Home Depot turned out to be a waste of my time. Chores had to be done the following day off. My next day off after that, I built a Manometer. Today, I got to use it. The pic is the levels before adjustment:
The pic is somewhat misleading. It was worse than that when I first re-started the bike, after warming the engine. The levels were crazy. The pic is after things settled down.
It was some P in the A to adjust. The adjustment screws are not turned, but "touched." It took a little while, but here's the end result:
Man, she purrrrrrssss! She just frickin' sounds awesome! Even better than when I bought her. Goosing the throttle results in a smooth, upward sound that I can only describe as a growl. So smooth, it's sexy.
It started raining like cats and dogs not long after that last pic, and still raining, it was well after dark before she was back together. So I didn't get to take her out. Tomorrow, though... Long way to work FTW!!
The Manometer was built from this awesome post:
http://www.600cc.org/forum/f91/building-manometer-25485/
The information to use it came from another awesome post:
http://www.600cc.org/forum/f91/how-sync-throttle-bodies-fz6r-15991/