Just because you can...

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bbelk
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Couldn't that be a supercharger of some kind? Fuel injection at least - possibly with injectors much closer to the head.


Anyway - sure you should!
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Chuey
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Major Softie wrote:
jagarra wrote:There is that fabricated panel below the tranny, if you blow it up you can see what looks like a ignition switch there, maybe a tiny battery next to it.
And, btw, that little panel is the only thing I don't like on the bike. If that panel had been pounded out of aluminum, wit soft corners that blended with the engine cases, I would have found that much more satisfying. As it is, it's the only thing on the bike that looks like an afterthought, and a compromise.
I like the panel fine. It looks home made but for me it fits. As far as the lines of the bike, I really really really do not like the rear plates where the axle goes through.

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bbelk wrote:Couldn't that be a supercharger of some kind? Fuel injection at least - possibly with injectors much closer to the head.


Anyway - sure you should!
No, it's a Weber DCOE side draft carburetor.
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bbelk wrote:Couldn't that be a supercharger of some kind? Fuel injection at least - possibly with injectors much closer to the head.
I thought it looked like a DCOE but a supercharger would have been nicer. I wonder why superchargers are not used more often on bikes as they work great on cars. There was a BMW boxer race bike with a supercharger way back.
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barryh wrote:
bbelk wrote:Couldn't that be a supercharger of some kind? Fuel injection at least - possibly with injectors much closer to the head.
I thought it looked like a DCOE but a supercharger would have been nicer. I wonder why superchargers are not used more often on bikes as they work great on cars. There was a BMW boxer race bike with a supercharger way back.
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They did a neat job of bolting the kompressor on the front of the engine. Simple; driven straight off the crank and no synch problems with the single carb.

I have a Kompressor on my my car. You can't see it, which is a shame but it's in there somewhere.

Nice word Kompressor
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barryh wrote:They did a neat job of bolting the kompressor on the front of the engine.
Yep, factories are like that, even then.
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Here's more story / I didn't look close enough while there. http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2016/02/24 ... metal.html
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That was built by the gas box in Cleveland Ohio they are a small custom motorcycle shop . http://www.thegasbox.com/
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