3000 plus Hours of development and design time!

[RICHARD ALBANS]

You have blended the radius’s vey well not a easy feat. Well done

We have spent a huge amount of time in the details. We have taken weight out of the design wherever we can, undercutting to bring wall thickness down. Including the supercharger oil reservoir within the cases and directing air over the reservoir to help keep the oil cool. Directing air onto the drive belt to keep the temperature of the belt in check. Integrating the blow off valve inside the plenum. Integrating the engine breathing canister into the back of the plenum. Making the supercharger outlet fit at an angle to slide into the plenum on assembly on O rings, so no silicon hose joiners and clamps. The plenum presses over the throttle bodies again on to O rings. Something not shown is the carbon fibre air intake, not only for looks but also to keep the weight down. The drive pulley is aluminium and lightened with holes and reliefs, as is the internal drive plate. Making belt adjustment easy etc etc. As much thinking time as design time. A real challenge. But enjoyable.

 

[ruzzle]

OK I gotta ask... any boost limiting valve this time?????

 

[Gregger]

Thanks Richard. Can hardly wait to see the pictures of the final product. You guys appear to know what you are doing... Well done!

 

[estoma]

I will be disappointed if we don't make at least what the prototype made, 305 whp. 260 ft'lb of torque.

Richard. I've had a look at your earlier video;

And you seem to be doing a pukka engineering job here, once again. Things have really come along the last nine months, despite COVID-19 and other challenges, when comparing the 3D screen-dumps included here to the prototype pieces featured in the video. You probably need to consider an update on that. Please include some 3D stress simulations using the software's FEA features, assuming that you are using SolidWorks® or similar.

There is only about 75 mm (3") clearance between the oil cooler screen and the front tire's rear edge. How much of that will be lost when the assembly is fitted, complete with the clutch slave cylinder and possibly another cover over that?

I am hoping that you are going to offer this in three stages since I, for one, do not intend major heart surgery on my Rocket any time soon - meaning to the extent of installing low compression pistons, etc. I would not object to cams, though, since we will already work on the clutch and water pump. Something along these lines, I would think;

Stage 1. 8-10 psi. Stock compression and clutch. Maybe mild cams. 230-250 rwhp. Just enough to scare the local Tupperware torpedoes off for good.

Stage 2. 14-16 psi. Lowered compression, beefed-up clutch, wilder cams. 280-300 rwhp. One up on that blown Suzondayamasaki that sputters by every so often.

Stage 3. 14-16 psi, but the Full Monty. Stage 2 plus stronger con-rods, balancing, optional blueprinting, optional methanol/water injection, intercooler on the lefthand side (in full view), larger headers. 330-350 rwhp. With optional 'Street Outlaw' wheelie bar, of course (-:

 

[RICHARD ALBANS]

Richard. I've had a look at your earlier video;

And you seem to be doing a pukka engineering job here, once again. Things have really come along the last nine months, despite COVID-19 and other challenges, when comparing the 3D screen-dumps included here to the prototype pieces featured in the video. You probably need to consider an update on that. Please include some 3D stress simulations using the software's FEA features, assuming that you are using SolidWorks® or similar.

There is only about 75 mm (3") clearance between the oil cooler screen and the front tire's rear edge. How much of that will be lost when the assembly is fitted, complete with the clutch slave cylinder and possibly another cover over that?

I am hoping that you are going to offer this in three stages since I, for one, do not intend major heart surgery on my Rocket any time soon - meaning to the extent of installing low compression pistons, etc. I would not object to cams, though, since we will already work on the clutch and water pump. Something along these lines, I would think;

Stage 1. 8-10 psi. Stock compression and clutch. Maybe mild cams. 230-250 rwhp. Just enough to scare the local Tupperware torpedoes off for good.

Stage 2. 14-16 psi. Lowered compression, beefed-up clutch, wilder cams. 280-300 rwhp. One up on that blown Suzondayamasaki that sputters by every so often.

Stage 3. 14-16 psi, but the Full Monty. Stage 2 plus stronger con-rods, balancing, optional blueprinting, optional methanol/water injection, intercooler on the lefthand side (in full view), larger headers. 330-350 rwhp. With optional 'Street Outlaw' wheelie bar, of course (-:

Thank you for all your comments. As you can understand just finding time to post on here is difficult. We have the Honda CBR1000RR, the 5.0 Mustang, Harley M8 kits and other projects being juggled at the mo. I’ll try and drop stuff here as often as I can.
You do know that there isn’t an oil cooler on the Rocket, it’s just a guard covering the expansion bottle and reg/rec unit. So the actual movement is of the radiator. We push it slightly forward. But not much.
we do intend offering a St1, 2 and 3 something similar to what you have suggested. Certainly the exhaust is a huge restriction and I am working on that at the moment.
we are running a bit later than scheduled. One of the 5 axis machines has destroyed itself in a big way so work has and will back up until it’s fixed. We have ordered over half a tonne of 6082 alloy billets that will drop on the door step very soon. So lots going on. Jus added a bit more p-rn

 

[phar2slo]

I need to stop taking my phone to the toilet with all this p_rn on this post.

Looks like it's going to a Funtastic bike to ride with one of those attached.

 

[bootworks]

I just spit out my stupid light beer....Did you say 305 whp, 260 ftlb torque? Elon, are you listening?

 

[RICHARD ALBANS]

OK I gotta ask... any boost limiting valve this time?????

We rarely use any form of limiting valve. We use a blow off valve to disperse unused air. i.e. on idle or cruise where the supercharger is making airflow but the engine doesn't want it. The BOV is built into the back of the plenum.

 

[RICHARD ALBANS]

I just spit out my stupid light beer....Did you say 305 whp, 260 ftlb torque? Elon, are you listening?

We made that on the prototype so I expect similar when we get the production set up dialed in.

 

[RICHARD ALBANS]

More renderings.