Moto GP to go to 800cc in 2007

Let's try again. How would you feel about a comparison with engines of equal
HP. You seem to be hung up on HP. That Audi Site is crap, isn't it.

I found a turbo petrol engine and a turbo diesel with the same HP after much
searching
Smart roadster 3 cyl 700cc 60 Kw, 110Nm 5.2 l/100km
Getz diesel 3 cyl 1500cc, 60Kw, 191Nm 4.7 l/100km
Didn't like that comparo?

Theo

 

My son used to have a Saab 9000 turbo. The lag was the reason he hated and
sold it. It was a piece of shit.

Theo

 

Do you actually know the difference between petrol and diesel turbos John?
With a petrol turbo the turbo spins down and stops at idle and low throttle
settings. This gives you no boost at low throttle settings. what you have
then is a low tune, underpowered petrol engine. To get power you have to put
your foot down and wait, and wait. An absolute pain in a Saab if you back
off before overtaking and then try to pass when the road ahead is clear.

With a diesel turbo the turbo never spins down and never ever stops (untill
you turn the engine off). This is why a turbo diesel has little or no lag.
The diesel has equivalent power output to a normally aspirated petrol engine
of the same size and a LOT more torque. And torque is a lot more important
than Hp.

Theo

 

Sodium methoxide?

You don't like the Volvo ones?

Hammo

 

What does he want a HUD for? If Sydney bus drivers can take their
eyes off the road for extended periods of time to send SMS messages
with their mobile phones, why can't he?

GB, HUD? We don't need no stikin' HUD!

 

Good thing you have growing a beard as your other hobby!!

Hammo (Phewwww, I'm worn out just reading it!)

 

Scruffy? Smack is buying your missus cars?

It can't be you. You are are always so sartorially elegant.

Hammo (PS Do you think the camera saw me?)

 

Tee hee, he said, SAAB!

Hammo

 

If you want 50 horsies out of a smallish diesel, you're talking Turbo.
This page might tell you something:
http://www.kubotaengine.com/kubotaperformance.htm
.... although they're using SAE horses, not Motorcycle Press Kit
Horses, and I'm not sure how they relate.

It'd be just a trifle ugly

-----sharks

 

They're a very capable, practical machine, boring as bat shit though.

Yeah I started down that route,ordered the Ohlins, took off the centre
stand for ground clearance, priced getting seats and etc, and then
bought the Raptor on impulse, best decision I ever made (in
context,getting a sportier bike that is, I probably should have bought
the TNT instead of the Raptor), it wasn't until I'd clocked up more
Km's in a month on the Raptor than I had in the previous 18months on
the Bandit that I realised I rather disliked the Bandit and didn't
enjoy riding it at all.

Don't get me wrong for the right person they're a brilliant bike, but
they're just too much the motorcycling equivalent of a Camry for me.
Sensory anaesthetic. Sopoforic.

JL

 

I'm sure Mr Costello would pay you a $150 a fortnight to paint
treestumps and shovel dirt into gullys

JL

 

Thats the one. Brilliant.

Now if only my bike could sound like that!

David

 

OK... how about
http://www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/video/m1030m1_diesel_motorbike.shtml

Moike

 

Quite a few interesting rides around/out of Canberra...

Gary (and they don't take an hour to reach)

 

All it takes is an MP3 player, a 900watt amp and a suitable horn speaker
mounted under the ducktail!

Moike

 

Errmmm the VTR1000F-SP1/SP2 cleaned up?!?!?! I wouldn't have said so...[/QUOTE]

Errmmm, didn't the VTR1000 score best selling sportsbike in Australia
for a couple of years running? ('98 and '99 I think).

big

 

Hmmm, thinks about JL, thinks about Clem - does the zoom tool go that
far???

;-)

big (ring ring: "Oh, Hi Pot, whats up?")

 

Bah - he's a Guzzi rider, what would _he_ know about chains???

;-)

big

 

Rennovating his kitchen and riding a scooter, last time I saw him...

big (and complaining about the new owner of the jungle bike)

 

They were "competitive" in 1986, Gerhard Berger won at Mexico City in a
Benneton BMW, and that engine was still used up till 1988 by Arrows.

http://www.research-racing.de/bmwturbo.htm

big (not really a car guy)