kawasaki ninja supercharged h2
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Ummmm, because it's supercharged?
"Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. also has a long history of developing technologies for turbine engines. The lifeblood of these turbines is their blades, which need to be able to cope with extreme heat and vibration while spinning at high speeds.
Know-how from years of designing turbine engine blades was instilled in the first supercharger developed by a motorcycle manufacturer. And of course, designing a motorcycle-use supercharged engine in-house means that maximum efficiency could be pursued."
"Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. also has a long history of developing technologies for turbine engines. The lifeblood of these turbines is their blades, which need to be able to cope with extreme heat and vibration while spinning at high speeds.
Know-how from years of designing turbine engine blades was instilled in the first supercharger developed by a motorcycle manufacturer. And of course, designing a motorcycle-use supercharged engine in-house means that maximum efficiency could be pursued."
SAS Tom said:
Why do people keep saying supercharged when kawasaki themselves have released sounds with waste gate noises?
Looks like its using a centrifugal type supercharger, like rotrex etc.The compressor side is similar to a turbo, obviously driven differently.
The sound is most likely compressor surge, when it air bounces back off the compressor wheel when the throttle is closed.
....or something like that.
hebegb494 said:
Wow....competition for Turbo R1s everywhere....hope it doesn't pogo quite as absurdly...!!
( ps this is in jest - please do not go on to try to explain to me the difference between forced induction and crank driven aspiration etc.etc...)
Technically both are forced induction ( ps this is in jest - please do not go on to try to explain to me the difference between forced induction and crank driven aspiration etc.etc...)
Like Clen says, superchargers can pressurise the manifold and surge/need to be blown off.
Centrifugal type superchargers are meant to work more in the top end and be more linear, rather than a low down glut of torque.
s3fella said:
I had a go on a Kawasaki jet ski that had a 'turbo' on it the guy said and it was insane. 320hp he reckons and I cauldron beleive it.
I know they do a 300BHP S/C IL4 engine in thier jet skis 
.....http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/Product-Specifica...
SAS Tom said:
Well that's me told!
What are the noises on the video things that were linked to on here last week then?
What are the noises on the video things that were linked to on here last week then?
scarble said:
Like Clen says, superchargers can pressurise the manifold and surge/need to be blown off.
What's all this about cauldrons? Is this another BB meme that's over my head? Whenever I drop in here I can't make head nor tail of what's going on, you lot are potty.http://www.ninja-h2.com/video.html
latest teaser relased this morning...maybe it will be a 750? Roll on 30th....I hope it isn't going to be a huge anti-climax
latest teaser relased this morning...maybe it will be a 750? Roll on 30th....I hope it isn't going to be a huge anti-climax
So what's it for? Has there been any explanation?
If the intention is to make a small capacity engine behave like a large capacity engine, wouldn't they use a positive displacement supercharger, rather than a centrifugal type? Big bikes are already physically small and light, and very powerful. So why forced induction?
If the intention is to make a small capacity engine behave like a large capacity engine, wouldn't they use a positive displacement supercharger, rather than a centrifugal type? Big bikes are already physically small and light, and very powerful. So why forced induction?
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