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[k14]

Man, have a read of this, I can't believe it still goes.

[James Deuce]

Tht was brilliant! I'm never gonna waste money servicing the bike ever again! (NOT!)



Thanks for that - bring more!

[erik]

The article said the temp in the combustion chamber could read 2000°C, that's even higher than the melting temp of steel!

It doesn't make sense that the engine could survive all they did to it, unless maybe running the engine with no load lowered the temperature heaps.

I wonder what would happen if they did the same test with the bike on a dyno?

[pete376403]

i would expect that under load it would die sooner. Says an awful lot about Kawasaki engines, though.

You see similar things at bike rallies in the burnout contest - bikes run until the rear tyre catches fire, exhaust pipes glowing red hot, and still the f*ckers won't die

[Two Smoker]

That was amazing to read about, still doesn't mean i will treat my bike anything like that (although i cain it quite often) but like Pete said, shows something about Kwaka's

[Shazuki]

Says a lot for Japanese steel and alloys!And probably a decent engine oil was used...I wonder how an American engine would have handled that? or Italian, German or Brittish...LOL

A friend of mine once tried a similar torture with a Mazda 323 1300cc.He put a brick on the accellerator pedal and left it to die...it drank around 15litres of fuel sputtered to a halt and started straight away when more fuel was added...
Me thinks the manufacturers are far more harsh when testing their engines.

[georgedubyabush]

I'll bet those dodgy poms chucked on an old can they had lying around and flicked it off to some poor unsuspecting bugger...