Turbo a 2 stroke?????

[capulin overdrive]

How hard would it be to turbo a 2 stroke bike, and what would it require?


Have searched and searched, and every thing I've found turns into a Detroit deisel Charlie fox.


Obviously sleds are getting done, and there's some Banshees done.

 

[mtn-doo]

Contact Brice at Turbo Performance. He has turboed a CR500. He feels an Aero Charger feeding a Smart Carb would be very do-able. Corey of APT is working with Aero Charger on this as well. They are right down the street from APT.

 

[powdermuncher]

It will take fuel injection to make a turbo 2 stroke bike reliable -- just the way it did with the sleds--none of the carbed once were reliable.

 

[Spaarky]

It will take fuel injection to make a turbo 2 stroke bike reliable -- just the way it did with the sleds--none of the carbed once were reliable.

Are you serious???? There is hundreds of carb XP's and Polaris carb turbo's running around. They are stupid simple, and very reliable. My current carb turbo I have had since 08. (that doesn't include the ones before that) It runs like a top, and has never left me stranded. I think the worst that happened, was I lost a oil pump. Could easily happen to a efi sled.

I don't know bikes, so I don't want to give bad advice. I cant imagine it would be much different. Just some very basic principals. There is a carb turbo thread in the general section, check it out. Pages and pages of reading.

 

[capulin overdrive]

What, if any are the tricks to exhaust and reeds?


This may have been pre-powervalve, but the stuff I've read says the reason 2 strokes are hard to turbo is because the pipes are tuned to provide a little backpressure that is needed. Thus the reason a Detroit has actual exhaust valves.


Is it really slap a turbo on and go? Stiffer reeds required, etc. etc???

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

not to be rude, but its not that hard, and where your concerns are headed, not gonna be a project to take on personally.

one of the bigger issues being, you need to make sure you have a stator capable of running a fuel pump, as well as some gauges. aerocharger would definately make for the simplest cleanest install without having to deal with coolant and an oil resivoir/pump combo for an auto turbo.

The internally vented smart carb could prove to make boosting things insanely easy. its basically boost reference onces you slap a charge tube on it as best I can understand.

IMO, carb turbos are relatively simple, and just take a little different train of though compared to efi turbo stuff. Anyone who thinks carbs can't be turbo'd and efi is the only way for success needs to get out more.

 

[capulin overdrive]

not to be rude, but its not that hard, and where your concerns are headed, not gonna be a project to take on personally.

one of the bigger issues being, you need to make sure you have a stator capable of running a fuel pump, as well as some gauges. aerocharger would definately make for the simplest cleanest install without having to deal with coolant and an oil resivoir/pump combo for an auto turbo.

The internally vented smart carb could prove to make boosting things insanely easy. its basically boost reference onces you slap a charge tube on it as best I can understand.

IMO, carb turbos are relatively simple, and just take a little different train of though compared to efi turbo stuff. Anyone who thinks carbs can't be turbo'd and efi is the only way for success needs to get out more.

We're not up to including mothers in the discussion yet, think my ego can handle it.


Appreciate your posting and have learned. I always forget about oiling.

 

[Two2]

Contact Brice at Turbo Performance. He has turboed a CR500. He feels an Aero Charger feeding a Smart Carb would be very do-able. Corey of APT is working with Aero Charger on this as well. They are right down the street from APT.

turbo performance where they are?