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Understood, I was just curious because like you had stated about the SXV motors we end up rebuilding about every 18 hours of track time on our race bikes. For what the motor was designed to do, I have yet to ride anything of similar comparison. But reliability sucks huge dicks.
But your FSAE cart looks super impressive
But your FSAE cart looks super impressive
Some of the schools with a real budget and more people on the team have been doing cool stuff with the R6 and F4i engines like vacuum crankcase evacuation and dry sump setups. All it takes is people, money, and time. I would have liked more of at least one of those three things..
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That car runs a pre-production 2010 R6 engine, it's basically an early dyno test engine that was donated to the school by Yamaha. The SXV/RXV engines are really sweet, but a lot of the schools have had some serious problems with them cooking the undersized starter motors and some other failures I can't remember. We had looked at those, but it appeared that the development costs were going to be too high and the safety margin too low. I would actually love to use the Yamaha Genesis 80FI snow machine engines, they're like a pair of YZF250 engines put together but they use a CVT so some type of external transmission would have to be used. Yamaha was rumored to have been thinking about using that engine with an integral transmission for the next Banshee (or was it Blaster, I always get my names wrong) which IMO would be the ultimate FSAE engine.
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Reliability is even worse when you strap it to a car with a bit more weight than a race bike, and add some sticky tires too.
Some of the schools with a real budget and more people on the team have been doing cool stuff with the R6 and F4i engines like vacuum crankcase evacuation and dry sump setups. All it takes is people, money, and time. I would have liked more of at least one of those three things..
Some of the schools with a real budget and more people on the team have been doing cool stuff with the R6 and F4i engines like vacuum crankcase evacuation and dry sump setups. All it takes is people, money, and time. I would have liked more of at least one of those three things..
Why was the roll hoop so high?
we had a gsxr motor that we got good power out of (like 88 rwhp). Went back next time w/ an F4i motor on a dry sump. No-one did any thought process behind it other than 'dry sump is fast mmkay, hyuck'. Nuked the motor.
