Turbo charged 2.5L Rocket 3 for sale Derby, UK

[Jagster]

This bike featured in the 2024 Rocket celebration event hosted by Bennets-BikeSocial at Elvington Airfield.

It was the fastest Rocket 3 at the event.

A tidy looking machine when I looked at it up close.

Pardon our interruption...

 

[Mighty Mouse]

This bike featured in the 2024 Rocket celebration event hosted by Bennets-BikeSocial at Elvington Airfield.

It was the fastest Rocket 3 at the event.

A tidy looking machine when I looked at it up close.

Pardon our interruption...

This Rocket seems to have crept into your soul. You got to watch it up close and personal. You’re thinking of buying it aren’t you

 

[Jagster]

This Rocket seems to have crept into your soul. You got to watch it up close and personal. You’re thinking of buying it aren’t you

Oh yeah..............Reeeeeaaaaal close................................

 

[Gimlet]

This bike featured in the 2024 Rocket celebration event hosted by Bennets-BikeSocial at Elvington Airfield.

It was the fastest Rocket 3 at the event.

A tidy looking machine when I looked at it up close.

Pardon our interruption...

Do you know anything about this bike or where the work was done? I know it will be long gone by now, but if I'd seen it when I bought mine I'd have bought that instead if it had been available.
Thinking about it, a modest turbo like that seems the ideal way to go. Cheaper than the full supercharger kit and the perfect amount of performance for the road without going over the top or over-stressing the engine. And it does away with the dilemma of which exhaust system to go for.
I'd seriously think about doing the same to mine if I knew where and how to go about it.

 

[Mongler07]

AWESOME, its like it was MADE for a turbo in that config but 200HP shameful for a turbo setup considering the supercharged is 350hp plus and a NA build is 250ish. I get it, it's 10/10 cool points for the turbo but for the cost why not just go 200hp NA?

 

[Jagster]

AWESOME, its like it was MADE for a turbo in that config but 200HP shameful for a turbo setup considering the supercharged is 350hp plus and a NA build is 250ish. I get it, it's 10/10 cool points for the turbo but for the cost why not just go 200hp NA?

It's because in order to go beyond 200hp with the turbo, he would have needed move some other stuff to the next level.
He mentions injectors as being the next requirement to break past 200hp.

I have also heard on the grape vine that the stock pistons are quite brittle, so I assume forged pistons are a sensible bit of insurance.

I guess he decided to do a different project rather than to keep going with the Rocket.

 

[Jagster]

Do you know anything about this bike or where the work was done? I know it will be long gone by now, but if I'd seen it when I bought mine I'd have bought that instead if it had been available.
Thinking about it, a modest turbo like that seems the ideal way to go. Cheaper than the full supercharger kit and the perfect amount of performance for the road without going over the top or over-stressing the engine. And it does away with the dilemma of which exhaust system to go for.
I'd seriously think about doing the same to mine if I knew where and how to go about it.

It certainly ran nice at Elvington when I saw it there.
Search for JKR Racing........Think they are in the Midlands.

 

[Gimlet]

AWESOME, its like it was MADE for a turbo in that config but 200HP shameful for a turbo setup considering the supercharged is 350hp plus and a NA build is 250ish. I get it, it's 10/10 cool points for the turbo but for the cost why not just go 200hp NA?

What NA build would you go for to achieve 250 bhp? I'm not disputing what you say, just interested to know how to get the best bang for your buck. I know this bike has so much more to give without going mad, breaking the bank and turning the bike into a fragile drama queen. What route would you take? Genuine question.

 

[Mongler07]

let me restate that this turbo build is AWESOME and looks 11/10 and like these bikes were MADE for a turbo with that setup.
Considering that you can just tune and tweak the stock setup to over 170hp with a dyno and some know how.... Moore Mafia did it with a MUCH better power curve with torque coming in WAY SOONER

injection is the limit as its not about revs, its about the curve and preventing detonation, My suspect is that a ported head and some cam work (like the carpenter kits do) will easily net 30hp more. a decent turbo setup like this one has if DIY is about 2 grand maybe more if its worth what the listing said. Its just a cheat code for putting more air in the system.
the 250 stage would Defiantly be doing internal work with forged pistons for a higher compression and detonation resistance but if its a rev power build then defiantly rods as well. seeing as the 2300 can do 250 with the same setup its safe to say that this is whats required to get to that stage.
injection is CHEEP, and all his setup should need is to regap the piston rings to handle the turbo and possibly a thicker head gasket to lower compression. its just that 200 hp seems tame for a turbo setup. still would be an amazing ride regardless and clearly is a show head turner.

 

[Gimlet]

let me restate that this turbo build is AWESOME and looks 11/10 and like these bikes were MADE for a turbo with that setup.
Considering that you can just tune and tweak the stock setup to over 170hp with a dyno and some know how.... Moore Mafia did it with a MUCH better power curve with torque coming in WAY SOONER

injection is the limit as its not about revs, its about the curve and preventing detonation, My suspect is that a ported head and some cam work (like the carpenter kits do) will easily net 30hp more. a decent turbo setup like this one has if DIY is about 2 grand maybe more if its worth what the listing said. Its just a cheat code for putting more air in the system.
the 250 stage would Defiantly be doing internal work with forged pistons for a higher compression and detonation resistance but if its a rev power build then defiantly rods as well. seeing as the 2300 can do 250 with the same setup its safe to say that this is whats required to get to that stage.
injection is CHEEP, and all his setup should need is to regap the piston rings to handle the turbo and possibly a thicker head gasket to lower compression. its just that 200 hp seems tame for a turbo setup. still would be an amazing ride regardless and clearly is a show head turner.

I don't doubt you could yield a lot more than 200 bhp with a turbo but as far as I'm concerned that isn't the object of the exercise. It's about finding the sweet spot for this bike for road riding, not chasing numbers for the sake of it. 200 bhp and around the same figure in torque would be perfect.
Bearing in mind that 2K is about the price of an exhaust system and a remap, that figure for a turbo kit sounds like a bargain. And for an engine of this size I believe the stock engineering would handle it with ease without additional maintenance burdens. I'd happily pay that, and double it for someone else to fit it for me.
If it cost me 4K ride in/ride out to do what this guy has done I think that would be very good value for money that would produce an awesome but entirely every-day usable all-round bike. With that in mind I do wonder why he sold it though.