KX Guru Racing JT Engine Works KX500 Induction Crank testing
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 12:23 am
I know, I know... Turbo Cranks have been out for 40 years and they don't work and are a waste of time and money... Except.... We have a Steve Paris Turbo Crank up and running in "Project Clapped out 1998 KX250... what works?" and have shown a 15-20% gain on a broad range of RPM's We have more testing to do but so far I'm really excited about this.
So much so that I'm going to duplicate the experiments on my KX500..
Steve Paris is the only person to have a Patent on the Turbo Crank idea.
He contacted me about 2 years ago and we talked a bit about how it works, and why it works when so many others did not.
Steve's design acts like a compressor, not a sweeper... Most of the designs I have seen try to fan or sweep the charge up the transfers.
Steve's design compresses the charge and then directs it up the transfers.
I gave it many, many nights of thought as to why it would work when others failed.
I came to a conclusion that the only way it could work was that the cases had to be modified as well as the crank.
So I called Steve and sure enough.... I was right. Yes, sometimes I get lucky.
Here we are, the test bed.
This is my 01 KX500 Supermoto that has had a fair amount of riding done on it.
I hadn't ran it in about a year and a half.
In fact, I think Oscar Cota was the last to ride it down at his place in So Cal when we were putting Sean Colliers bike together..
We robbed a bunch of parts off it for Sean's bike and I just haven't had the time to get it all back up and running.
So much so that I'm going to duplicate the experiments on my KX500..
Steve Paris is the only person to have a Patent on the Turbo Crank idea.
He contacted me about 2 years ago and we talked a bit about how it works, and why it works when so many others did not.
Steve's design acts like a compressor, not a sweeper... Most of the designs I have seen try to fan or sweep the charge up the transfers.
Steve's design compresses the charge and then directs it up the transfers.
I gave it many, many nights of thought as to why it would work when others failed.
I came to a conclusion that the only way it could work was that the cases had to be modified as well as the crank.
So I called Steve and sure enough.... I was right. Yes, sometimes I get lucky.
Here we are, the test bed.
This is my 01 KX500 Supermoto that has had a fair amount of riding done on it.
I hadn't ran it in about a year and a half.
In fact, I think Oscar Cota was the last to ride it down at his place in So Cal when we were putting Sean Colliers bike together..
We robbed a bunch of parts off it for Sean's bike and I just haven't had the time to get it all back up and running.