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And no 4 stroke V4 in the list. Shame on them:
The 10 best motorcycle engines ... ever! - Motorcycle Top 10s - Visordown
-Bob
The 10 best motorcycle engines ... ever! - Motorcycle Top 10s - Visordown
-Bob
Heads look similar to those on a Cosworth DFV - no coincidence.I like the looks of the older one better.
any loser can string some words together for a magazine:wackyit is in print after all, so it must be true......
+1All that said, I think the article misses the boat pretty badly. No TZ750?
Please.
NSR Big Banger... the engine firing order courtesy the Big Bang RVF750 V4 4 stroke...
Someday I predict all of the Gp bikes will be V4s... after all it sports the most
advantages in MotoGp... just as Rossi...
HONDA NSR500
Year: 1992
Horsepower: 168bhp @ 13,000rpm
Torque: 78ft.lb @ 11,450rpm
Layout: 498cc, two-stroke, 60-degree V-four
Honda’s NSR was the most successful of the 500cc two-stroke Grand Prix
missiles, and frequently the most scary too. That was mainly due to its V4
engine, which was generally the most powerful on the grid - and sometimes so
vicious that the world’s best riders couldn’t control it.
The NSR was debuted in 1984 by Freddie Spencer, who’d won Honda’s first
500cc title the previous year on the sweet-handling NS500 triple. The
liquid-cooled V4 was a much nastier device. It differed from Suzuki and
Yamaha’s V4s by having a single crankshaft, instead of twin contra-rotating
cranks. The reduced friction aided power: the first NSR’s 144bhp was purely
awesome in 1984.
Fast Freddie won the championship in 1985, and Wayne Gardner followed in
’87, by which time the V4’s breathing had been improved by increasing
cylinder angle from 90 to 112 degrees. Eddie Lawson regained the title for
Honda in ’89 - after the NSR’s evil-handling chassis had been reinforced in mid
season to cope with an engine by now producing 162bhp.
Honda’s V4 ruled the Nineties, with five titles for Mick Doohan plus one for
Alex Criville. Along the way it went to “big-bang” firing order (cylinders firing in
quick succession for added traction) then back to “screamer”. In 2000 even
Valentino Rossi couldn’t tame a NSR that had been tuned to make almost
200bhp. By the time Rossi took the final 500cc crown in 2001, the NSR had
won 130 GPs and ten world championships in 18 years. It was the most
dominant two-stroke Grand Prix engine ever created, made the MotoGP bikes
that replaced it seem utterly bland in comparison, and scarred a lot of brave
men in the process. To this day, the NSR500 engine is the maddest thing ever
made.
Yep... they really did thanks to Mick Doohan...Wow, they really made a Big Bang RVF750?
I think the bolt on deep sump was a corse only item and used much later than the 851. Shower injectors came later too.Did the Corse 851's have a deep sump, or is that from a later version (748R? 916SPS?)
Likely no V4 four-strokes on it either (none with round pistons anyhow)....How about a top 10 race engine list?