Yamaha's plans for a factory turbo

[crazyyamaha]

i owned a 1982 650 yamaha turbo bike, and it had no reliability issues at all. i was 20 yrs old at the time, and like most 20 year olds, totally indestructable(lol) i ran the living snot out of that bike and it took it all. put over 40000 miles on it before i sold it to buy a v-max. to see how far yamaha has come, compare the turbo at 650cc and aprx. 100hp to the current non turbo 600cc at aprx. 125 hp. dont be fooled by hp numbers, if yamaha wants the apex next year to have 180hp. it will, without a turbo.

Then I want 180 hp non turbo sled

 

[cjasonbr]

Turbo or not that is the ?, but Yamaha released the 2007 R-1 resently. This all new bike has got a new engine setup that cranks out 180 HP without ram air effect. We may see a R-1 derivated sled engine in the near future at 170+ HP.

You have to remember that the r1 engine being used now is about 160+ on the motorcycle application. They carbereuted it for the sleds and fuel injected for the motorcycles. Perhaps if you just put a comperable fuel injecting system on the current sleds you could get another 30-40 ponies....

 

[rxrider]

Turbo or not that is the ?, but Yamaha released the 2007 R-1 resently. This all new bike has got a new engine setup that cranks out 180 HP without ram air effect. We may see a R-1 derivated sled engine in the near future at 170+ HP.

You have to remember that the r1 engine being used now is about 160+ on the motorcycle application. They carbereuted it for the sleds and fuel injected for the motorcycles. Perhaps if you just put a comperable fuel injecting system on the current sleds you could get another 30-40 ponies....

The R1 (2004-2007) engine is not the same design as the engine used in the RX-1/Apex (2003-2007), it is a totally different design. HP number of the '06 Apex and '03 R1 engine is about the same at 150 HP, both FI engines and of a similar design.

 

[Alatalo]

I do not know about a turbo, but hopefully we will see snowmobile engines based on this cylinder: http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/produ ... /home.aspx
A future 500 cc twin...?
A future 750 cc triple...?
A future 1000 cc inline four...?
All with four valve cylinders, variable length intake funnels and fly-by-wire throttle...?

 

[Auskins]

Turbo or not that is the ?, but Yamaha released the 2007 R-1 resently. This all new bike has got a new engine setup that cranks out 180 HP without ram air effect. We may see a R-1 derivated sled engine in the near future at 170+ HP.

Where did u find that HP number?
It doesn't say on the Yamaha sites, other then it has more then before.
The bike should be sweet with that varible intake...

 

[rxrider]

Turbo or not that is the ?, but Yamaha released the 2007 R-1 resently. This all new bike has got a new engine setup that cranks out 180 HP without ram air effect. We may see a R-1 derivated sled engine in the near future at 170+ HP.

Where did u find that HP number?
It doesn't say on the Yamaha sites, other then it has more then before.
The bike should be sweet with that varible intake...

I'm a member of Yamaha's Motorcycle Racing site so I get info from european HQ on email, here is a link http://www.yamaha-motor-europe.com/prod ... yzf_r1.jsp
Then click on - Technical info