Sounds like you are building a FrankenSTein bike!!!!!
I had thought about this, but there are several issues preventing it. First, the clutch cover bulge would prevent a pulley from ever being put on the front of the crank, and second, there's not enough vertical room under the tank for everything. Then there's the issues of low thermal efficiency and no way to cool the charge air.How about a supercharger? They put them on V65 Sabres!
How so?Maybe I'm building up my project bike all wrong!
I'm just restoring it so I can start using it for my commuter bike, instead of wearing out my 2010!..How so?
No one should be in that big a hurry to get to work? LOLMaybe I'm building up my project bike all wrong!
Not to get to work, but it would be fun to shutdown anything else while getting to work!No one should be in that big a hurry to get to work… LOL
Well, response time, mainly. With a vee configuration, there's no efficient way to plumb both banks of exhaust into the turbo. So, you end up with a lot of volume in the exhaust tract between the exhaust valves and the turbine wheel, and this allows the exhaust gas to cool and to slow down, both of which increase lag. If this were an inline and I had the room to place the turbo close to the engine, I'd do a single without question. In the interest of reducing lag as much as possible, and because packaging twins on a vee engine are easier than a single, I'm going with twins. Another obstacle with a single down low is returning the oil to the engine, which I talked about in my last post. If you placed the single high enough to get around the oil return issue- above the swing arm, to the left of the shock with the exhaust coming up through the hole in the swing arm- it would be even more laggy because it'd be even further away from the engine.Why use twin Turbo?
Funny you mention shutting stuff down... I almost got shut down by a car coming home from a friends last week. I'd just pulled up to a light and a beautiful Chevelle pulled up next to me. I looked over and gave the guy a thumbs up and as I did, I saw the thing surging against the brakes. There wasn't anything sticking out from the hood, but I can spot blower surge a mile away. I thought, what the hell... and gave my bike a few blips and he nodded back, and when the light went green and we were off. Well, I was; he was busy trying to find traction. Once he found it, he hung with me up to about 80 when I rolled off. At the next light, he was grinning from ear to ear and I was thinking, "holy ****..." The road opened up after the light and turned into a four lane undivided highway (and it was late and there was no traffic), so we went for it again. This time, I was slow off the line and he got a better launch, so he was able to get out ahead of me. I found my bearing and gave it the goods, but couldn't catch up to him. He wasn't pulling away, but I wasn't reeling him in either. We went quite a bit faster this time, but when he called it quits, I didn't look down at the speedo because I was watching him. I got next to him and waved my arm to follow me, and we pulled into a gas station. I popped my visor and he said, "Want to see what 750 HP looks like?" hah... like he even has to ask. No, I would not like to see what 750 HP looks like. Turns out, this guy had a built LS6 with a blower on top and an automatic behind it. He was a bike guy too, albeit Harleys, but his car made up for that. He told me that he was into his engine for about 25. I replied with, "yeah, I'm into my engine for about four..." He asked, "thousand?!?!" And I said, "no... hundred. " We talked a bit more about our rides and parted ways. He did say that his car weighed 3800 lbs, so I went online to look at some 1/4 mile calculators where you can punch in HP and weight and it looks like his car is a high- 9's/ low- 10's car. Anyone with drag racing experience care to conjecture how accurate that is? Either way, definitely one of the fastest street cars I've ever come up against. So next time you're in UT, if you see a blue Chevelle with 20" Cragar SS wheels, give 'em a thumbs up and he'll probably pop the hood for ya.Not to get to work, but it would be fun to shutdown anything else while getting to work!
I'm kinda thinking custom "STT1300" stickers. I'd say STTT1300, but I removed all the Touring from the bike, so I don't need the third T.Honda TT1300. Cool.
(Twin Turbo).
Gives you even more reason to see what you can squeeze out of those 1261ccsFunny you mention shutting stuff down... I almost got shut down by a car coming home from a friends last week.
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Either that, or see what the 7700cc's in my Caddy can do.Gives you even more reason to see what you can squeeze out of those 1261ccs
My rear T30 on my ST1300 went a whole 2500 miles so you are doing better then me. My front T30 tire has almost 5000 miles on it now and is just about done.Well, just about to turn 3000 miles on these T30's, and they're just about down to the wear bars. The front is shagged out on the sides, and the rear got it in the middle. I know this is a heavier, torquier bike than anything else in my garage, but I was really hoping for 6K miles out of the tires. They're great tires to the end, though. Going up the scale in price, I'm probably going to try the RoadSmart II's next.
That is why I went back to the darkside as I cannot afford to replace tires that fast with that few miles. I did like the way the tire handled during the short time I had it on.Mike, I lied... I actually checked the odometer today instead of just guessing, and it's been 2500 since I put the T30s on. Closer inspection of the front has be deciding to just throw another T30 on the rear and see what the front does, if nothing else than out of curiosity since I've never not replaced a front with the rear. But yeah... 2500 miles out of ST tires on a 525 lb. bike seems a bit of a joke. I love how the tires perform, but am not impressed with the wear.