Engine configs

Ah, the Vertical Turd!

Hammo

 

Yup V12 and or Jet Power

http://www.classicmechanics.com/bissue/2003-10b.jpg
http://www.classicmechanics.com/bissue/2003-10a.jpg
http://www.richmondlabs.com/Automotive/RichmondV8/V12_Kawa.jpg
http://www.richmondlabs.com/Automotive/RichmondV8/V8-Kwacker2.JPG

Full story here (all one url)
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cach...com/ft1.htm+kawasaki+v12+z2300&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

and here
http://www.dethlefsens.dk/besk_mc/z_diverse/kawa_z2300_v12.htm

and here
http://uk.zn1300.com


This guy (Allen Millyard) is a Legend

Also another V12 one here
http://www.richmondlabs.com/Automotive/RichmondV8/joebody.jpg

Tony Platt
Stanza

 

Come to think of it, it was an inline 6 and i think it was benelli

JL
(very fuzzy memory of the 70's and reading my uncle's bike mags)

 

Six, opposed, horizontal, Goldwing and derivatives.

Mark.

 

Steam, Electric & Turbine...

 

There was a Benelli Sei up the Mt White Cafe a few weekends
back... Looked nice, apart from seeming to be about 9 feet wide...

It was a bit like this one:
http://www.motorbikes.be/Pict.asp?id=1023
but you can't see how wide that 6 cylinder motor is from that
photo...

big

 

Richard Nixon had to see "Deep Throat" three times before he could get
it down Pat![1]

Cheers
Goaty
1. You have to be over 45 to understand the references!

 

On 23/10/03 7:54 AM, in article , "Goaty"

Yeah that'd be right, Gets into a PhD and expects his humour to oh so tres
witty! Bloody agesit.

Hammo

 

"Goaty" wrote

Living with Dickie, Pat would have to have been able to swallow anything.

Theo

 

There was an opposed 4 2-stroke GP bike. (It used a Konig snowmobile engine)
I'm sure there was an opposed twin too. (MZ, CZ?)
Four inline were the TZ700 and 500.
V Four were the Honda NSR500s

 

Although splayed out in a V the Yamaha is technically a square-four (or H four).
A V should have a single crank like the NS400 triple.
(so sayeth the book of Clem)

 

The Laverda Formula-one endurance racer is the only V6 I can think of.

 

Count Morbidelli made a V8 2-stroke car engine (formula 3 I think) and a V8 4-stroke bike.

 

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:15:20 UTC, "Manning"

} Here is my working list of engine configs to write about in the
} Motorcyclopedia. I haven't written any of these yet, I'm working on the
} animations.
}
} Have I left any out?
} ******************************
} 4 Stroke Engine Configurations, with 2 stroke where applicable:
}
} - Single ( + 2 stroke)
} - Twin, V (all angles, + 2 stroke)
} - Twin, opposed, horizontal

'Boxer' as noted already. Also in 2-stroke:
http://www.doidschleera.de/KFZ/2R/BK350GES.HTM


--
// Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike
// Enschede '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed
// Netherlands ('76 Honda CB250G Bouwpakketje)
// "Far away is only far away '90 K75C Kommutabike
// if you don't go there" '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip

 

} A mid thirties (?) outfit (Woolmer, me thinks) in the UK produced a
} horizontally opposed four - sort of like two Boxer engines, one on top of
} the other. Cured the problems of cooling the rear pots, but gearing the
} whole operation together made it very complex. Apparently it was gutless and
} top heavy to boot. The company didn't survive, not suprisingly.

Wooler. And it was somewhere '50's. The first models had a single
crank with hinged conrods and excenters; later they used a more
sensible design using dual cranks, but the company folded before they
went into production.

--
// Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike
// Enschede '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed
// Netherlands ('76 Honda CB250G Bouwpakketje)
// "Far away is only far away '90 K75C Kommutabike
// if you don't go there" '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip

 

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:34:01 UTC, lemmiwinks

} Boxer wrote:
} > Been thinking of getting one myself, would cure the speeding problem.
}
} Oh I dont know, I once had my Dad's MZ up to 140kph. Loooong downhill,
} with a stiff tailwind. You can still speed, just requires more forward
} planning

Even so, you can't claim you were going that fast accidentally.

--
// Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike
// Enschede '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed
// Netherlands ('76 Honda CB250G Bouwpakketje)
// "Far away is only far away '90 K75C Kommutabike
// if you don't go there" '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip

 

Should also have the bloody carbs in the valley (not that there's
actually any room), and they should have stuck with *either* piston
port, *or* crankcase induction. Not both! Bah, I still love it.

Cheers,
Ash

 

What was the two stroke that had one big cylinder and one small cylinder
(1950's ?). It used the small cylinder as a compressor to supercharge the
larger cylinder, cannot remember the name.

Al

--
Al

"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon. "

Remove *ME* before replying

 

I dont know if you're thinking of Puch? Its an Austrian marque, sold in
the US as Allstate/Sears. Its a split single two stroke with one piston
behind the other rising and falling together, but a common combustion
chamber. The rear piston somehow aids cylinder scavenging. If you want
to know more, you'll have to ask my Dad ;-)

Cheers,
Ash

 

Are they primitive USD forks?

Moike