We have found a nice location in the heart of taipei to locate a showroom, our trusted mechanic will stay in the old place though which further complicates things, luckily taiwan has an awesome shipping system and we already have a large contract with the biggest courier firm for our other business so we will try and work something out.
TURBO ANYONE?
The pink BWS-125 that belongs to my wife is going through a very interesting transformation, basically theres a young chap (i forget his name!) who drives a lovely red alfa romeo who is starting a company building bolt on turbo kits for scooters............ oh how i laughed at him, turbos and single cylinders go together like poo and bread!.
Anyway he got it working once before on a kymco G5, the bike delivered 1.0 bar of boost with a special little turbo.
So how can he acheive what so many others have failed at?.
Well he claims the FI system makes it easy to fuel, ok im with him on that one.
Also others who have attempted before used turbos from small diesel engines, these turbos he plans to use are custom made to work on a small 4 stroke single scooter, this makes sense since alot of turbos are made locally, if you had the specs you could have them made specially.
Then theres the engine, we already run a forged piston and crank, so bottom end strength isnt an issue, the piston will also hold together with about 2.0bar as well!.
We can alter the compression ratio ourselves with custom made gaskets, spacers and/or modding the head.
My only doubts are the ignition timing, we cant control it, so that may limit our boost potential.
The kit is going to be running on our 164cc engine, with all the trimmings N/A it makes around 15WHP, adding 1 bar of boost in theory makes 30WHP............... in theory.
I do indeed have doubts, but hey its going to be fun to try!.
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