Hayabusa goes 4 wheels

Step 1: Take a Smart car dismantle its engine
Step 2: Take a Hayabusa engine and replace the engine
Step 3: Do some minor modifications

and this is what you get...


Next you realise you want more power out of the engine... Drop in a turbo... and now this is what it becomes...



Finally, find a Ferrari and put it to shame...

A show of power

Not many Hayabusas in the world can hit the speed record of 259mph (414.4km/h), let alone lift the front wheel up at that speed. This a show of brute horsepower at work. Power wheelies at that speed is unimaginable.


Charlies 636HP Turbo Hayabusa

Here's the bike being tuned by Dave Owens on a dyno machine. 636hp (474.3kW) and 330ft/lb. of torque.

Riding Talents

Train them young and the possibilities are endless...

How I wish I had talents like them...



Terry Martin

Crash and Back

Imagine crashing off a bike...

Imagine crashing off a bike at high speed...

Imagine coming back on the same bike to try for 200mph again...

Imagine no more...


Conquering 200MPH & Disaster on a Naked Hayabusa

Fast

When you thought you were going fast with your Superbike down the highway in full throttle maxing out the engine revs and clearing the meter. This is what defines "fast"


The Fastest Mile- 256.79 MPH on a Turbo Hayabusa

Variable Geometry Turbocharger

Turbochargers works on the simple principle of increasing the intake air density by compression. Being able to fill more air into the combustion chamber will allow more fuel to be added to produce more power.

However the operation of the turbocharger relies solely on the exhaust gas velocity to drive the compressor. Thus the compressor will be at optimum operation range when the engine is under heavy load. When the throttle is opened, it will take a certain period of time (depending on the turbo's characteristic) for the turbine to spin up to it optimum rpm and the engine intake does not see as high a pressure as it would want thus this delay in the power delivery is known as "lag".

To reduce lag, one of the direct way is to simply use a smaller turbocharger as the turbines are smaller and lighter, it has lesser inertia and thus takes a shorter time to spool up. However due to the smaller size, the volume of air that it can take in for compression is restricted at high end and thus the performance is choked. Vice-versa to allow more air to be compressed and thus more power to be produced a bigger turbocharger is normally chosen. However this will directly increase the turbo lag. Thus its often a dilemma for engine builders.

This lag is not desirable as it creates an suddenly surge of power after a period of lower power... thus this non linear power delivery will affect how the vehicle have to be driven/ridden.

It is this problem that led to the development of the Variable Geometry Turbocharger. It is simply a turbocharger with an additional set of fins which regulates the flow of exhaust gas into the turbine. This additional set of fins are controlled by an electronic actuator. The opening and closing of the actuator varies according to the engine's load (ie. rpm).

At low rpms, the fins are closed to a small gap allowing the slower exhaust gases to accelerated into the turbine region (theory based on fluid dynamics, for the same volume flow, the small the cross sectional area will result in a faster fluid flow)


At high rpms, the fins fully open allow the full flow of exhaust to spin the turbine. Giving the turbo its full potential in performance.
The VGT technology was previously more commonly found in turbo diesel engine due to the lower exhaust gas temperature. Only until the recent years with the use of space age metal technology where the fins that are constructed will be able to take the high temperature (about 1200 degree Celsius and above) of petrol engines.

Recent application of the VGT can be found in the 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo.

John Noonan 407 km/h Landspeed

John Noonan 407 km/h Landspeed
Video sent by Turbobusa

Noonan's Record 246.818MPH (397 km/h) (top speed 253.152MPH - 407 km/h), October 2004



793-B 1650CC/APS-BF John Noonan Racing, Rider: John Noonan



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Big Cc Racing Turbo Busa

How much is enough? That's normally the question that many will ask. How much will you use then? Sometimes, when common sense is thrown out the window along with tens of thousands of dollars, we'll get to see amazing feats of engineering. For this instance a big-bored, stroked and turbo-ed hayabusa built by Big Cc Racing.

Turbos for hayabusa comes in 3 horsepower ranges, Stage1 (Street) : up to 250hp, Stage 2 (Pro-street) : up to 500hp and Stage 3 (Ultra street/race) : 500hp and upwards. The current stage of development is over 700hp for the hayabusa ultra kit. That requires major engine and chassis rework to ensure that the bike can hold together with that amount of horsepower.

Below are pictures of one of the bigger turbos that the Big Cc Racing are building. Expectations on the dyno are of 600 to 700 bhp from its 1600cc engine. Here are some sneak photos prior to finishing. Check out the goodies on this bike.

Mocal oil/water exchanger, samco hoses, dual wastegates etc.

Big CC CNC Plenum & Billet fuel rail supporting 1200cc injectors, billet Aeromotive regulator & billet Aeromotive post filter with big bore Goodridge fittings all round.

GT40/94R Big Impeller turbo capable of 800bhp in car application. Both sides are rose jointed for aded support. Billet sump & Goodridge oil feed to turbine.

Motec M400 engine management & AMS1000 boost control & also water injection tank. Note quick release Limo connectors.
Inside Big CC Swingarm Weldon monster fuel pump, Aeromotive pre pump filter suspended by Ohlins reworked shock absorber. Air tank for boost & shifter also in the Arm


Sequential firing high flow header pipes made in 321 stainless steel with dual wastegate for twin entry turbine. Note billet Pair block offs

Mocal oil cooler kit, NLR oil return pump, ohlins suspension. Twin Tial 38mm wastegates with triple dump pipes

Big CC Standard triple clamps with Spondon risen clip ons. & Motec Sport Dash logger

Big CC Swingarm. RC Component rear wheel


The Bike has so far made 602bhp at 30psi of boost on the dyno. It is expected once run in to map up to 45psi of boost which should see over 700bhp.