innovativems said:Love the side covers on the engine!
Swivel said:57hp.....?
Dyno chart printout.....?
Guess work....?
Standard head ports and 36mm carb.....?
More than a Manx Norton.....?
Trav said:Yea I'd be very surprised if you've got 57hp.. I spend alot of time on the SR500 forum and that's pretty much unobtainable, especially with the poor intake port design. Maybe 45hp. Using a VM36 and not even and FCR39, though.. such a high peak HP figure doesn't seem right. I don 't believe the guys who are actually racing these engines are getting HP like that, and they aren't worried about getting street worthy reliability out of them. Road racing, flat track, etc.
Also, for any high output compression overbored SR, the jug needs to be reinforced with through studs etc, from the head down through to the case, or it will fail (split) eventually.
Maybe the guys that did this work know something nobody else does.. there's always a chance!
Dyrden where are you at? I'm in the US on the East Coast. I might be parting with mine...
Tim said:Oh, we'll be there! Last year we were set up with Dime City Cycles, Loaded Gun Customs, Cafe Racer TV and Ace Cafe up on the hill for a cafe racer area. Bike show, live music, hot girls on a golf cart... was all good. This year should be even better with Triumph as the manufacturer sponsor.
Trav said:No I will not be making it out there. I'm located in western MD
Dyrden said:You got 7 SR500s for pennys and I cant find one for less than 2k that runs.
Lucky bastard. Beautiful build. What are you doing with the others?
Swivel said:No way is that SR 500 on the Dyno pumping out that much unless it is 720cc,got 20% nitro in the alky and is ready to grenade at 7K.Dyno figures from dynos that are not the industry standard MC dyno,the Dynojet dyno,are worth just about zero.That car dyno needs calibration.Put it on a real bike dyno like one of these:
http://www.dynojet.com/motorcycle_dyno/200i_dyno/Default.aspx