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<blockquote data-quote="lindie" data-source="post: 12422" data-attributes="member: 1466"><p>you mean it's a real feasibility that the 19 DIN horses my MZ is claiming is a "massaged" figure? but with a combined rider and bike weight approaching 280 kg i've seen 120kph on the speedo with a correlating readout on the tacho. </p><p></p><p>should i fit a turbo or lose 40 kg?</p><p></p><p>power figures over here have been a wank for decades as well with companies strangling engines early through the seventies and still claiming the previous models output figures so as not to appear to be de evolving. and with the converse applicable in japan for a long while to adhere to an artificial limit of 280 hp from their cars. yet with newer models weight figures rising and yet acceleration figures getting sharper there had to be some wondrous H.O.G. (not the harley owners group, their passtime with the first two words "hands on") fiddling of figures or plainly detuning for dyno testing/imposed lower rev ceiling. </p><p></p><p>as long as my rapide is capable of a higher speed than my MZ(in the region of 10 kph higher is all i'll ever really require living over here anyway) and i need to ride 1600 odd miles to legally do that, then the final power output is academic and best left untested. as long as the rockers rock, the valves valve and the connecting rods decide to stay in connection, and i suspect this to be more likely for longer at moderate revs, then the big girls motor will live a fairly unstressed life in my stewardship. but i plan to sample the torque from down low with open taps on a frequent basis. revs kill engines, but it's generally torque that destroys drive components. hope i find a happy medium somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lindie, post: 12422, member: 1466"] you mean it's a real feasibility that the 19 DIN horses my MZ is claiming is a "massaged" figure? but with a combined rider and bike weight approaching 280 kg i've seen 120kph on the speedo with a correlating readout on the tacho. should i fit a turbo or lose 40 kg? power figures over here have been a wank for decades as well with companies strangling engines early through the seventies and still claiming the previous models output figures so as not to appear to be de evolving. and with the converse applicable in japan for a long while to adhere to an artificial limit of 280 hp from their cars. yet with newer models weight figures rising and yet acceleration figures getting sharper there had to be some wondrous H.O.G. (not the harley owners group, their passtime with the first two words "hands on") fiddling of figures or plainly detuning for dyno testing/imposed lower rev ceiling. as long as my rapide is capable of a higher speed than my MZ(in the region of 10 kph higher is all i'll ever really require living over here anyway) and i need to ride 1600 odd miles to legally do that, then the final power output is academic and best left untested. as long as the rockers rock, the valves valve and the connecting rods decide to stay in connection, and i suspect this to be more likely for longer at moderate revs, then the big girls motor will live a fairly unstressed life in my stewardship. but i plan to sample the torque from down low with open taps on a frequent basis. revs kill engines, but it's generally torque that destroys drive components. hope i find a happy medium somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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