Counter Balanced "B" Engine
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2011
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From: NH
F them and their busa's. As far as jap bikes go, I would love to have a vmax, been thinking bout trying to find a deal on a used one. Like the idea of all that power without the crazy riding position and all the plastic.
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Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Northern California
Are you going to tell me that your 'busa's pistons are as big and heavy as a Big Twin's pistons ? And I'm sure you've got a shorter stroke in a Hayabusa, too, and it's not in a narrow-angle V-Twin. I'm sure the counter-balancers in a Hayabusa are just HUGE and that's why the throttle-response is so slow.....
Road Captain
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From: Rockford, IL
Its all about doing something DIFFERENT..where is the fun of BUYING something that already has 180hp??
Road Captain
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From: Rockford, IL
Road Captain
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: Rockford, IL
It's probably aftermarket form the compensator clear back to the blinkers. Or ,at least it will be by the time he's done breaking ****.
Remember in the seventies when guys would shoehorn a nasty ,13.5.1 compression ,tunnel rammed, Big Block in a Vega ?
Same principle I would imagine.
Remember in the seventies when guys would shoehorn a nasty ,13.5.1 compression ,tunnel rammed, Big Block in a Vega ?
Same principle I would imagine.
The reason I tore everything down is because I wanted to drop a supercharger pulley size (more boost) and I didn't want to take a chance breaking anything with the extra hp increase
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From: Rockford, IL
It amazes me how misinformed people are about turbos/superchargers. It seems like people think that if you have forced induction you automatically have to rebuild EVERYTHING...thats not the case. I was running the procharger for a couple summers and didn't have any problems with it other than a belt change(supercharger belt, not drive belt).
Prochargers build boost with respect to rpm. This results in a very linear hp curve. You don't get the "shock" to the internal components that you get with a roots type supercharger. This puts a lot less stress on the engine/transmission
The reason why you hear of guys rebuilding everything after the addition of the supercharger/turbo is because alot of times they want more hp and they know that they are pushing the stock components to the limit.
Thats exactly what happened with me. Could I just left everything the way it was??? Of course I could have, I just didn't want to.
Sorry OP for hijacking the thread
Prochargers build boost with respect to rpm. This results in a very linear hp curve. You don't get the "shock" to the internal components that you get with a roots type supercharger. This puts a lot less stress on the engine/transmission
The reason why you hear of guys rebuilding everything after the addition of the supercharger/turbo is because alot of times they want more hp and they know that they are pushing the stock components to the limit.
Thats exactly what happened with me. Could I just left everything the way it was??? Of course I could have, I just didn't want to.
Sorry OP for hijacking the thread
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Joined: Mar 2010
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From: Hudson Valley, NY
My last bike I put on larger pistons and jugs, upgraded cams, had the heads ported, ignition etc... My little sporty probably pushed 92-95 HP and had serious nuttles, so I'm not "afraid to mod" anything. But I think with a Harley I like to do it with the aesthetics of the bike in mind, because well it's a Harley. To each their own though.
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From: Martinsburg, WV
What are you smoking? A Hayabusa is a couch. I could go for just as long on one of those as I could on my Deuce. It's not like it's a torture rack like the RC51 I used to own. Want a fun twin? That's a fun twin.
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Road Captain
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: Rockford, IL
I have sat on a few of them and I wasn't comfortable. That's just me though
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