HOS
10-29-2008, 06:58 AM
Superchargers can work and they can work well. I know that turbos are pretty rare, but if you Google Supercharged Busas, mine is about the only bike listed in the world.
But of course there are more out there in the real world.
I have owned 4 previous Busas and this is my 5th and most heavily modified. After seeing a couple of supercharged bikes at Santa Pod ( my local track) in England I decided a few years ago, thats what I want !
Time between saw me receiving serious injuries in a near fatal accident where I got smacked hard by a car that didnt stop and left me for dead in a ditch
under my Hayabusa at the side of a country road, unconscious with less than an hour to live. Luckily I was made of stronger stuff than most and survived.
Finally last year after all the dust had settled on my medical treatment, insurance assessments and medical reports, I was able to start building the bike I wanted :cheers:
The starting point was an 02 model bone stocker Hayabusa in black and blue..... appropriate colours :oh yeah: This bike had only 10k miles on it, 2 owners and nill hard use. A real weekend, old boys bike.
Then I had it.
I had it modified almost straight away to fit the Yoshimura Cyclone "Race use only" 4 into 1 stainless with tri-oval race can. Airbox mods, pair valves removed, Power Commander and dyno time.
This was just the start a long a road of modification that is far from over today....its "ongoing" as they say.
I played around on the road for a few months with it just having been piped and chipped, but wasnt totally happy with the power delivery, it needed more.
So I talked to the only man in the UK I reckon with the talent and expertese to fit me a blower and to do it right !
The prime goal was for RELIABILITY above everything else.
That was my most important criteria for my bike.
This meant we had to plan the build as the engine builder Mark is a top drag racer and his work is all about building drag bikes that are designed to go blindingly fast and get stripped down and rebuilt after every race or two.
That was`nt his brief when it came to my bike and we both went through a really close and interesting learning curve with the bike.
Mark is full of energy and go fast !!!! He is a low 7 second standing 1/4 man on his own blown (road legal) Busa. Yeah... hes fast ! :oh yeah:
He came round slowly to the way of thinking... R E L I A B I L I T Y .
The bike/engine build evolved as we went along.
I spent a fair amount of time in his unit talking with him and deciding on best/better options for the road.
Because it is primarly a road bike but with the ability to race !
I took a while and I was getting anxious to get it out on the road and play with it !
The day it was ready I was nervous. The roads were very damp, wet even and I`m collecting a rapid and mentalist blown Busa ! I`m racked up wtih pain most of the time anyway, so when its wet and slippery as well...... hmmmm....
Mark had test ridden the bike well to make sure it wouldnt let me down or slap me down the road, it was all part of the service he gives.
He wanted me to be totally happy with the bike, something he repeated to me again and again at each stage. For no other reason that he wanted me to be happy knowing a little of how I got there.
Mark was extremely excited and pleased with the bike when we talked the morning of the day I was picking it up. Wheelies in every gear I seem to remember he said ? (I was running stock wheelbase at that time)
He loves this bike and he did oh so NOT want to give it back to me that day. It became his baby.
I now have the best running and rideable bike I have ever ridden in my 38 years of riding bikes. You cannot imagine what this is like on the road and my words arent good enough to express it.
Turbos sound cool, this sounds nasty ! It rips your ears hard.
Smoooooooooth as ice on the throttle. Liquid and fluid seemless POWER. Stunning and deceptively rapid.
Perfect fuelling all the way through the revs range.
Sit the bike at 2000rpm in 6th gear cruising easily in the sunshine.... wind that throttle as hard as you like without changing gear or any hesitancy and its smacked you hard into the seat hump and gone to the horizon without a hitch.
Gear changes become irrelevant on this bike, you can of course drop it down a gear or two and nail it if your in the mind to.
The rush is badass when your hitting 6000rpm in 6th and it takes off with that big turbine whistle and whooosh of the blower, nothing, but nothing can or will stay with you. ~Unless they`ve got boost.
People round here do`nt bother looking when a noisey bike comes past, but the whole street does with this !
The local traffic cops keep overtaking me when I`m cruising thro town, they then turn off and swing back around so they can overtake me again just to look at the bike... I aint joking.
There is no power curve on the graph, its a straight line increase in power from 2000 rpm to the top.
Running at 7 psi boost tops, its hitting max 234 rear wheel horsepower.
For the road thats enough..... well for now... :oh yeah:
But of course there are more out there in the real world.
I have owned 4 previous Busas and this is my 5th and most heavily modified. After seeing a couple of supercharged bikes at Santa Pod ( my local track) in England I decided a few years ago, thats what I want !
Time between saw me receiving serious injuries in a near fatal accident where I got smacked hard by a car that didnt stop and left me for dead in a ditch
under my Hayabusa at the side of a country road, unconscious with less than an hour to live. Luckily I was made of stronger stuff than most and survived.
Finally last year after all the dust had settled on my medical treatment, insurance assessments and medical reports, I was able to start building the bike I wanted :cheers:
The starting point was an 02 model bone stocker Hayabusa in black and blue..... appropriate colours :oh yeah: This bike had only 10k miles on it, 2 owners and nill hard use. A real weekend, old boys bike.
Then I had it.
I had it modified almost straight away to fit the Yoshimura Cyclone "Race use only" 4 into 1 stainless with tri-oval race can. Airbox mods, pair valves removed, Power Commander and dyno time.
This was just the start a long a road of modification that is far from over today....its "ongoing" as they say.
I played around on the road for a few months with it just having been piped and chipped, but wasnt totally happy with the power delivery, it needed more.
So I talked to the only man in the UK I reckon with the talent and expertese to fit me a blower and to do it right !
The prime goal was for RELIABILITY above everything else.
That was my most important criteria for my bike.
This meant we had to plan the build as the engine builder Mark is a top drag racer and his work is all about building drag bikes that are designed to go blindingly fast and get stripped down and rebuilt after every race or two.
That was`nt his brief when it came to my bike and we both went through a really close and interesting learning curve with the bike.
Mark is full of energy and go fast !!!! He is a low 7 second standing 1/4 man on his own blown (road legal) Busa. Yeah... hes fast ! :oh yeah:
He came round slowly to the way of thinking... R E L I A B I L I T Y .
The bike/engine build evolved as we went along.
I spent a fair amount of time in his unit talking with him and deciding on best/better options for the road.
Because it is primarly a road bike but with the ability to race !
I took a while and I was getting anxious to get it out on the road and play with it !
The day it was ready I was nervous. The roads were very damp, wet even and I`m collecting a rapid and mentalist blown Busa ! I`m racked up wtih pain most of the time anyway, so when its wet and slippery as well...... hmmmm....
Mark had test ridden the bike well to make sure it wouldnt let me down or slap me down the road, it was all part of the service he gives.
He wanted me to be totally happy with the bike, something he repeated to me again and again at each stage. For no other reason that he wanted me to be happy knowing a little of how I got there.
Mark was extremely excited and pleased with the bike when we talked the morning of the day I was picking it up. Wheelies in every gear I seem to remember he said ? (I was running stock wheelbase at that time)
He loves this bike and he did oh so NOT want to give it back to me that day. It became his baby.
I now have the best running and rideable bike I have ever ridden in my 38 years of riding bikes. You cannot imagine what this is like on the road and my words arent good enough to express it.
Turbos sound cool, this sounds nasty ! It rips your ears hard.
Smoooooooooth as ice on the throttle. Liquid and fluid seemless POWER. Stunning and deceptively rapid.
Perfect fuelling all the way through the revs range.
Sit the bike at 2000rpm in 6th gear cruising easily in the sunshine.... wind that throttle as hard as you like without changing gear or any hesitancy and its smacked you hard into the seat hump and gone to the horizon without a hitch.
Gear changes become irrelevant on this bike, you can of course drop it down a gear or two and nail it if your in the mind to.
The rush is badass when your hitting 6000rpm in 6th and it takes off with that big turbine whistle and whooosh of the blower, nothing, but nothing can or will stay with you. ~Unless they`ve got boost.
People round here do`nt bother looking when a noisey bike comes past, but the whole street does with this !
The local traffic cops keep overtaking me when I`m cruising thro town, they then turn off and swing back around so they can overtake me again just to look at the bike... I aint joking.
There is no power curve on the graph, its a straight line increase in power from 2000 rpm to the top.
Running at 7 psi boost tops, its hitting max 234 rear wheel horsepower.
For the road thats enough..... well for now... :oh yeah: