Bucket Power

**texmo** · 7th August 2005, 17:28

To All you bucket racers out there, How much HP do you think your bike has at the wheel? I am pretty happy with my scooter and just wanted to compare it to your buckets.

**TonyB** · 7th August 2005, 18:56

*sigh* None. Kinda need a barrell for that :slap:

**texmo** · 8th August 2005, 14:13

There is a guy at Mt. Wellington with a 250cc sleved down to 125cc and its have 27hp at the wheel im told...

**TonyB** · 8th August 2005, 14:15

YES! Just found a barrel- now I will have some HP, but not very many.

I do know of one bucket down this way that started out with 7 and ended up with 14 or so

**texmo** · 8th August 2005, 15:58

A friend of mine has a 50cc bike hes bolting on a scooter kit to it as its all measures up and he will have a 22hp bucket racer. with a total cost of less than a grand.

**TonyB** · 8th August 2005, 16:05

at the rear wheel, or at the crank?

**texmo** · 8th August 2005, 16:12

rear wheel, none of this crank nonsence... My scooter pk50 will have about 18bhp maby a little bit more. Go the eight inch wheel

**TonyB** · 8th August 2005, 16:39

JeeeeeZuz! From 50cc? Thats 360hp per litre. Not baaad!

**ZorsT** · 8th August 2005, 16:47

Originally Posted by texmo

rear wheel, none of this crank nonsence... My scooter pk50 will have about 18bhp maby a little bit more. Go the eight inch wheel

rebuild after 5 hours is it?

**texmo** · 8th August 2005, 16:53

Nah its not that bad buts its no longer a 50cc with the kit on it its just over 100cc

**froggyfrenchman** · 8th August 2005, 19:17

have a gl145 in 400 impulse frame. atc200 barrels and piston with 8mm chewed off the bottom and xr125 stroke. original 145 head, thus creating 14:1 compression. took so much aloy outa the ports, i thought they were goin to colapse. Have gotten it up to 170kph in 1.5kms. will have to put the old girl on a dyno to see hp. out acelerates my best m8s fzr750 and in the impulse frame can do pretty impressive stoppies. Any other bucket owners think they can beat that?

**speedpro** · 8th August 2005, 19:29

Originally Posted by texmo

There is a guy at Mt. Wellington with a 250cc sleved down to 125cc and its have 27hp at the wheel im told...

That's a single barrel from a 250 twin, sleeved down to 100cc, custom power valves, etc etc, in a RS125 frame. It produced 27.5hp at the rear wheel on Brett Robert's dyno, with a very nice power curve.

My current bucket makes 22.5hp at the rear wheel, well it did when I built it. I can give average RG150s a good run at Taupo or Puke and have kept slow ZXR400s honest at Manfeild on the full circuit.