So I think I want a blower on my Rocket

[Tripps]

In never thought about it before, but it finally dawned on me, I don't think they use first gear for the reading, and you would never really come off idle in 4th gear, so it makes sense to me now. It was a little bit of an adjustment at first, how you ride it. But I've never been on anything that pulls like that.

 

[idk]

Maybe my riding style is different, but I can be riding around at 1,200 to 1,500 in top gear, and open the throttle to overtake. Are you saying that you can't do that with a Carpenter motor?

 

[warp9.9]

Ian everyone's riding style is a little bit different. I would do the same as you but there is a difference in opening the throttle and going to full throttle. If I were puttering along in fifth at idle and needed to overtake and or pass someone I most like would not need all the motor to do it. I am not sure how fast fifth gear would be at 1200 to 1500 rpms but probably around 40 mph or so. And at that low of a rpm if you whacked the throttle wide open it would probably be hard on the crank unless you had it on a breaking dyno so you can hold that rpm and tune all the timing in the throttle percentage cells. You could be having some detonation and not even hear it. And as Wayne Tripp said it would not be good on the motor. Sure you can do it but why there is a reason why Triumph put a transmission on the bike.

 

[IMFASTTOO]

Of course you can ride anywhere you want in the powerband as I criuse in high gear at low rpm and thats the only way to get good gas economy but you dont want to wack the throttle wide open you would just roll it on and use part throttle

 

[Tripps]

Maybe my riding style is different, but I can be riding around at 1,200 to 1,500 in top gear, and open the throttle to overtake. Are you saying that you can't do that with a Carpenter motor?

Well sure you could, but if I was really in a hurry, I'd drop down a couple gears.

 

[TriumPhil]

Well, for you real sickos out there, for whom "too much is never enough", here's a dyno sheet from one of the de-stroked (1487 cc), turbo-charged , Rocket III motors that is one of two Carpenter Racing mills powering the Triumph-Castrol Streamliner out at Bonneville.
This particular pull was done at a very low boost setting!



Can you imagine our 2294cc motors, turbocharged and with higher boost settings? Can anyone say 700 HP??? A better question is... could anyone ride a 700 HP Brahma Bull/Bike like that?

 

[IMFASTTOO]

YES that was an easy pull at very low boost and we are surprised it made that much power with that small 1487cc engine

 

[Claviger]

Such an incredible build you guys did on those things.

So... is there a drive in drive out package for 414hp/254tq yet?

 

[IMFASTTOO]

Such an incredible build you guys did on those things.

So... is there a drive in drive out package for 414hp/254tq yet?

WELL we are wondering if there are any riders that would like to own a KING KONG TURBO SILVERBACK with CRAZY HP ??

 

[Claviger]

I'd certainly want one, though, I doubt many people would really want that much power when really put to the decision.

On a serious note, have you guys tried pairing an aerocharger with the 240/270 kit yet for a street bike?