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- From: davet@loowit.wr.tek.com (Dave Tharp CDS)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: CBX and other 6 cyl's
- Message-ID: <10918@wrgate.wr.tek.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:17:07 GMT
- References: <1edu9bINNaua@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <BxxvJA.5zs@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Nov20.093913.4739@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.093913.4739@microsoft.com> chrispi@microsoft.com (Chris Pirih) writes:
- >In rec.motorcycles weiss@bdcv8 writes:
- >;could follow Honda's lead and produce a V-8 masquerading as a V-4 (NR750).
- >
- >The NR750 is a 32 valve inline 4. It could possibly
- >be described as a parallel 8 with very thin cylinder
- >walls, but not really as a V-anything.
-
- Wrong, Grasshopper. It is definately a Vee-4. Two cylinders sloped
- forward, two cylinders sloped backward, common crankshaft, 4 twin-throat
- carbs nestled between the cylinder banks. It could also be described as
- a VFR750 engine with very odd shaped pistons. It was covered in detail
- in "Automotive Engineering" a couple of months ago, an SAE publication.
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- | Dave Tharp | DoD #0751 | "You can't wear out |
- | davet@loowit.WR.TEK.COM | MRA #151 | an Indian Scout, |
- | '88 K75S '48 Indian Chief | AHRMA #751 | Or its brother the Chief.|
- | '75 R90S(#151) '68 CB450(#751) | AMA #524737 | They're built like rocks |
- | '65 R50/2/Velorex '57 NSU Max | | to take the knocks, |
- | 1936 BMW R12 | (Compulsive | It's the Harleys that |
- | My employer has no idea. | Joiner) | give you grief." |
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