Forced Induction Supercharger/Turbocharger

What? F3R is CHAIN Driven?

Old Apr 4, 2003 | 03:27 PM
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Does anyone have any pictures of the set up?
Old Apr 7, 2003 | 09:01 AM
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Broken chains on motorcycles are pretty damn rare (assuming that they're properly riveted together), and they're transmitting plenty of torque, they're putting up with a lot of reflected torque from the environment (bumpy roads, etc.), and they're not doing it in a comfortable environment.

Even a "wimpy" bicycle chain has a working strength in excess of 500 lbs. Put that on a 6" drive sprocket and it's capable of taking 125 ft-lbs of torque - not too shabby.

The single biggest problem with chain drive is that the efficiency and life drops off dramatically with contaimination, but I think that's going to be less of a problem under the hood of a track-only car than it is on the swingarm of a dirt bike.
Old Apr 7, 2003 | 01:12 PM
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Any pictures of a set up like this and whom can I talk to get a set up. I think this would be a great idea. The only hard part would be to build a nice cover to house it all so it is not exposed. I can't see why it would make that much noise because if you think about how many millions of motors use this concept for the over head cam set-ups.
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