RE: Kawasaki unveils Supercharged Engine ...
12/01/13 10:43 AM
With the styling ques going in the direction they are...at the moment...I can see a monster 14 coming out in a few.Styled even MORE killer than the new 14's.Hope I'm around to check em out;)Gonna be a radical change in the near future.Gonna be lots of factory go-fast options on the way....;)
* Last updated by: Grn14 on 12/1/2013 @ 10:43 AM *
RE: Kawasaki unveils Supercharged Engine ...
12/01/13 11:12 AM
Have you met square wave? Speed of light is that one wave make a move. So in theory, if you could make a machine that equals the speed of light? Here is SqWay. See you on the Highway, getoutheway!
No shit, the mother of all motion is Mother Magnet.
Tormenting the motorcycling community one post at a time
Unless technology has changed since my high school years of car obsessions, turbo's have lag. Lag has no place on a 300hp+ motorcycle, Superior to a supercharger or not.
May I offer a diff way to look at it. Lag we all here about is based on boost greed or how far are you willing to push. How much lag in your build is up to you.
Compression plays a huge roll as well as turbo size. Stock compression 350 hp turbo, no lag. In boost at 3300 RPM. Same Rpm you leave the driveway with. Sure there is lag below that but I certainly can't feel it. Boost comes in way to fast and over comes any feeling of power loss.
Drop a few points of compression now you can ramp up the boost and yes lag, boost 5500 RPM. But huge power on it way, hang on. 450 plus very easy to achieve.
What I find odd in this case is Engine size, Low compression, water cooled, high psi. Hp number very low. 310 ??? What gives. She has more. Dream motor to mod.
Engine Supercharged and intercooled, four-stroke, DOHC, four valves per cylinder, inline four-cylinder Maximum Horsepower 310 hp (Horsepower measured in PS at the crankshaft under controlled conditions. Actual performance may vary.) Displacement 1,498 cc Bore x Stroke 83 x 69.2 mm Compression Ratio 8.2:1 Induction Eaton Twin Vortices Series roots-type supercharger with air-to-water intercooler Maximum Boost 16.8 psi
Watch 1 min in. Low compression build. Now this bike will have some lag. Looks Fun to me.
* Last updated by: Romans on 12/2/2013 @ 4:05 PM *
This was taken by team saki pour my head back there is way back there in the R&D dept. called the Rinse&Dry engineering test room. This is final production.