I'm just catching up on my E-Mail, so somebody
may have already mentioned this, but don't forget
the Kawasaki Mach III series which included 350
-500 & 750cc bikes. The 500 was a hot, very
fast, but hard to handle bike. Back in it's
heyday, the first time it appeared at (and won)
the Daytona race, fans thought Yevonne DuHamel
was showing off doing wheelies out of the turns,
but the truth was, when the bike came on the
pipe, the power jump was so horrific that it did
uncontrolable wheelies. If I remember right, the
power jump was something like from 23hp, jumpint
to 110hp in about a 200 RPM band (on the race
bike version). If you were on wide open when you
hit that pipe conversion, you were in for a
helluva thrill! And all it took was a little
porting to change a street bike into the same
power output as a race bike, and it wasn't long
before proting patters were all over the place!
Dick J
Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net> wrote:
> Good case in point is the record holding
> streamliner built by the Burklands
> and first campaigned as I believe, the
> "Peanuts" car, then by Jack Harris
> and now JAZ Products. The only 200 mph plus
> car on the salt that is started
> with a rope. Reliable too! Brett Harris made
> all his driving qualifying
> runs and a record qualifying and record return
> run on the same day. Their
> turbocharged back-up motor was still in their
> snowmobile on the rack over
> the cab of their pickup push truck.
> Wes
> ----------
> > From: Carl Dreher <focusrsh@arn.net>
> > CC: land-speed@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Two Stroke Performance
> > Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:29:56 -0600
> >
> >Joe Ready wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> The reason that I'm writing now is the
> >> information about the two strokes.
> Apparently Carl knows what he is
> talking
> >> about. He also showed his age unless he
> reads alot.
> >
> >Both!
> >
> >BTW, the Suzuki "Water Buffalo" was the basis
> for their 750cc triple
> >racer that Barry Scheen made so famous.
> >
> >There is a variety of older privateer version
> of 2-stroke racers out
> >there, including those from Honda, Yamaha and
> Suzuki. They're not cheap
> >but they aren't like collecting old Ferraris,
> either.
> >
> >If you REALLY want some kick-butt 2-stroke
> power, go look at what is
> >available from the snowmobile folks. I
> believe the SCCA Formula 440
> >class is based on a 2-cylinder Kawaski
> snowmobile motor. (Something
> >like that... I don't keep up with SCCA too
> much.)
> >
> >- Carl
> >gettin older every day
> >
>
>
>
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