Vintage 11/78 High Performance Article

I have a copy of a Cycle world 11/78 that I believe would be of maximum interest.

"Taking It To The Tens"

If there was some way that i could post the entire thing here that would be great. I scanned the entire article and have it in individual page JPG. files.

I'd like to read it! I'll just wait here 'till it shows up.... :blink:

I remember the artical well. Took quite a bit of work to make a Z1R run a high ten. How times have changed.

Actually it did not take much at all. I wound up copying the article with mine. I did not even bother changing the carbs like Yoshimura did in the article. I had the bike timed in Hawaii and got into the high tens regularly, even though not consistently. But I never did say I was a Pro drag racer. It is an1103 with Bonneville cams and a little bit of head work. It took a lot more with the GS1000. RC had to punch it all the way to 1200.
Now- Anyone know how I can post this article????

OMR is pretty good at posting stuff like that. If you already have it scanned you may be able to get it into a pdf format but am not 100% sure. I think there is a free pdf application you could try but cant remember the name. Try a google search for it. Good Luck, I would be interested in reading it too.

otakar wrote:

Actually it did not take much at all. It is an1103 with Bonneville cams and a little bit of head work. It took a lot more with the GS1000. RC had to punch it all the way to 1200.

Pops Yoshimura pulled 133 hp / 76ft lb torque on a gs1000 road racer with a stock bore, i wonder what that would relate to in the quarter mile?

The # do the talking. Only 76 pound /feet of torque. The two # should be much closer together. This meant that he got all of his HP up hi on the RPM band. Now- If he got 110Hp and 110 Lb/Ft of torque, that would be impressive.

If someone wants a zip file of this article. send me an email to otto@condormodels.com and I will send it to you directly. That way we can discuss it here with more objectivity.

Otto

If .pdf is the key to getting it posted, then it should be quite easy if you use the latest version of MSWord. All you have to do is copy the .jpgs to a Word .docx, then save as .pdf.

A couple of superbike riders used to come to our local track Wed. night grudge races back in the day. 1015 Yosh Kawasakis they were running mid 10's going through in 3rd. gear ,maybe a little 4th., at 133-135 mph. With the front wheel in the air,road race gearing is not for the 1/4...

Well I sent out four Zips of the article so far. let me know what you think.