Recent content by BUGSLAYER

Congratulations on getting your bike on the road. One of the problems I always have to watch out for when building a bike is "project creep". Its so easy to add just one more thing, and on and on it goes. It will be interesting to see how the magazine project deals with this.

I understood that fitting a turbo system requires a lot of work to fabricate parts, build the engine and install all of the components and tune it before I started the project. I'm not sure however, that everyone does and I think your article will educate a lot of people. I don't think its a...

The install took no more work or fitting than I had expected and budgeted for, but if you have to cut the radiator and re-weld the elbow; it's hardly plug-and-play is it? To get the best out of the kit also requires a lot of engine and transmission work plus dyno time to tune it and that’s...

The air cleaned does not fit inside the fairing although I specifically asked for this. We changed the original Gen-1 radiator to a Gen-2 in order to fit the inter cooler radiator, the oil cooler was also changed for a smaller unit and re-located. I'm out of town at the moment Richard but will...

I'm also having a stage-2 built using an T28 as part of a kit built by RCC. This was inspired by the Velocity stage-2 but this was shortly before they stopped doing business and we decided to go with RCC as a more secure option. My thinking in having the bike built seems to have been very...

What type of turbo will you use on your stage-2? This looks like being a great article, and I'd be very interested to know when you will publish ?

Apparently its 2 impellers in the same turbo housing which serially compress the charge. There is a nice explination and a drawing on the thread below at WW2Aircraft.net; Two stage Superchargers - Aircraft of World War II - Warbird Forums

The first one is my 03 FZ1 in Monument Valley on a ride from California to Austin. The second and third are my 06 Busa. The forth is me last month at Laguna Seca on a borrowed KTM RC8R (so you can see what an old geezer I am). The fifth is my 08 Super Duke on the runway at Crows Landing...

My family home is in Austin, TX but I spend a lot of time in San Luis Obispo on the Central California Coast. I have bikes in both places. My other bikes are a Yamaha FZ1 and a KTM Super Duke.

This board is a load of fun and I’ve learned a lot (I think) about Turbo bikes. One of the many things I don’t know however, is what makes a Turbo system a particular “Stageâ€￾. Is it the turbo size, the turbo control systems, the engine build or some combination of the all of these...