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<blockquote data-quote="passenger0_0" data-source="post: 15399" data-attributes="member: 208"><p>Hi Steve D., I agree with you that Steve Hamel is getting very high hp and it's a credit to his skill & knowledge, especially with his bike running on petrol. On youtube video I've seen suggests even higher hp readings but at an rpm would make most Vincents engines explode like something out of the film The Hurt Locker. My outfit The Fast Lady is also on youtube for anyone interested. Ducatis and the like all produce peak power at what - say 8,000 - 9,000 rpm plus, good luck with making any Stevenage Vincent reliable at these speeds. Don't get me wrong, the potential is there as proven by the Irving-Vincent team in Australia who have Vincent-based bikes reliably producing 165+ hp but these are not 60 year old engines with fragile 1" crank mainshafts etc..... Extraordinary Vincents (and not mine I might add) give extraordinary performance but require extraordinary skill to build and are not just simply an assembly of off the shelf performance parts. I'll sign off now from this thread as I've gone on much loner than intended but will leave an open question anyone considering hotting up a Vincent needs to consider - do they possess this skill? If so then good luck in keeping the legend alive. Happy tuning - David</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="passenger0_0, post: 15399, member: 208"] Hi Steve D., I agree with you that Steve Hamel is getting very high hp and it's a credit to his skill & knowledge, especially with his bike running on petrol. On youtube video I've seen suggests even higher hp readings but at an rpm would make most Vincents engines explode like something out of the film The Hurt Locker. My outfit The Fast Lady is also on youtube for anyone interested. Ducatis and the like all produce peak power at what - say 8,000 - 9,000 rpm plus, good luck with making any Stevenage Vincent reliable at these speeds. Don't get me wrong, the potential is there as proven by the Irving-Vincent team in Australia who have Vincent-based bikes reliably producing 165+ hp but these are not 60 year old engines with fragile 1" crank mainshafts etc..... Extraordinary Vincents (and not mine I might add) give extraordinary performance but require extraordinary skill to build and are not just simply an assembly of off the shelf performance parts. I'll sign off now from this thread as I've gone on much loner than intended but will leave an open question anyone considering hotting up a Vincent needs to consider - do they possess this skill? If so then good luck in keeping the legend alive. Happy tuning - David [/QUOTE]
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