taking a turbo to my 550

would that give me any kind of results as far as power an performance.......just an idea?

 

well.. i'll chime in.


not knowing too much about the bikes, specially anything other than 650.

If the exhaust & intake stuff from a seca turbo would work on the 550 engine and frame.

You'd look at about 30-40hp gain. but you'd also need some sort of pressurized fuel system, so you don't run really lean when at boost.

The Turbo Seca's use pressurized carbs, and a pressurized petcock fuel system w/ pump.

The engine also had it's compression lowered, as well as some stronger insides to withstand the boost.

easiest way to turbo a bike, is have one that's fuel injected, and computer managed, get a small turbo (no bigger than t3, infact that's way to big) Mitsubishi has alot of small turbos, from the 6a to i'd say 13g. Then a fuel management system, Megasquirt's the most used.

A dyno would help with tuning and such.

Oh, and the best thing about the turbo, it has no additional hp till it starts to build boost, which for the tiny tiny 6a turbo on the Seca turbo, starts out at 5500-6000.. and then it's like doubling your HP in an instant.

 

Click here and all shall be revealed:

Turbo XJ550

Ugly as sin though.

 

not so ugly naked! Wish my 550 could ever like that nice.
The old flat front lawn tractor style fairing was pretty nasty for sure.

 

He bought that for the same reason I would have, to own a little piece of history, and have a nice little collectors item.

bike looks sweet without the fairings, but i'd be all original, and put them back on

 

well i dont have a seca i have a maxim and the fairing looked really funky.....i think ill skip the turbo and harness the power from the motor and just put every little thing on it...........ohh wait i know ill design a blower for it....just kidding how rediculous would that look anywas thanks for the opinion just throwing out a crazz idea

 

i believe there are blowers for motorcycles.

i haven't seen any cause i haven't cared much but i've 'heard' of them

 

hey new project fit a 350 smallblock on a seca frame with a b&m blowe and alluminum rods&pistons, 3 angle valves pushing 500hp then lets see how fast an xj can really go huh anyone up for the task all i need is fundage.......huhuhhuh maybe its an impossibility.......