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[papasmurf]

Apparently someone has turbocharged an Enfield:-



http://auto.ndtv.com/news/royal-enfield ... ms-1418759

[neddy]

does he blow down the pipe while accelerating ?

[Presto]

Not a ‘turbo-charged’ but a submarine motorcycle. Instead of wasting time playing with under-water ‘customised’ machines – which we all very much need and want! – why don’t they spend a bit of time and effort to achieve something like a decent power-output from their ‘new’ engines?

[papasmurf]

Presto, I only posted the picture and the link in case anyone was interested. On a personal level I would never have purchased my Enfield had the motorcycling media posted the truth about Electra X's.
Now I am lumbered with something I expect to develop a major fault I cannot afford to repair every time I take it out for a ride.

[jefrs]

It looks like it could be a sensible CGT based trials bike. They could have something better than the Himalayan here apart from from the Land Rover snorkel exhaust (oh dear) and the painful looking rack (trials bike, keep it simple). The second bike is a turbo drag bike. Both look like they were deigned and built by RE factory apprentices.

[jefrs]

Oops the snorkel is the air intake, the exhaust is straight through, exit just in front of the rear wheel.

[Presto]

Seems they are projects of the Harris frame company.

[John R]

So the dirty duck isn't turbocharged. It looks as if it is; what's that thing that the snorkel leads into? As to the other bike, the one that is turbocharged, I wonder how well it goes? It is supposed to be notoriously difficult to turbo charge a single cylinder bike.

[Leon Novello]

Should have put more effort into fitting a decent seat and mudguards. Maybe he will when he gets home with half the paddock splattered onto his back and down his neck.

[Presto]

'More effort into the seat and mudguard'? In my opinion more effort into every inch of this pointless project. I suppose it's given us something to talk/debate about. But I can't see any redeeming feature to be honest - except they have fitted our host's very nice GT Continental alloy venturi cover!