New Kwaka Screamer Engine

[skaz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjou0zRJZBE

Turn ya speekers up and get an ear full of that, sounds epicly awesome

[MVnut]

Kawasaki have been building screamer engines for ages, the best ones were called H2s

[Toast]

That sounds sweet!

Hope Hopper can do good with the Kwak this year.

[CHOPPA]

what configuration is a screamer?

For some reason i dont like hopper but his gear looks cool haha my moneys been on jorge from last year been following him through the 250s love his style and attitude!

[skaz]

A screamer engine uses an even firing order as oposed to the 'big bang' engines the other manufacturers use, which have an uneven firing order.
The theory is that the big bang configuration is easier on the tyres and easier to ride due to the power dilivery characteristics. However kawasaki now think that modern electronics systems, i.e. traction control, open the door for a return to the screamer format.
Theres an interesting wee article here on the top gear site of all places:

http://topgear.com/blogs/motorsport/...reamer-engine/

[Skunk]

It's still in testing at this stage. Not race ready.

Bloody cool sound though.

[Badjelly]

A screamer engine uses an even firing order as oposed to the 'big bang' engines the other manufacturers use, which have an uneven firing order.

Just to add my $0.10... Ordinary road bikes are screamers, as are all World SBK bikes. The World SBK organisers banned the big-bang configuration when the manufacturers started to experiment with it.

The Ducati 800 is a screamer, I believe.

By the end of the 990 MotoGP era, all the bikes were big-bang. When I went to Philip Island MotoGP in 2005, the only screamer was the Harris V4 used by the WCM team (which folded shortly after). The difference was obvious from the exhaust sound: the WCM sounded like an ordinary multi-cylinder motorbike; the others sounded like something between a Harley and a very loud, high-revving 4-stroke lawnmower.

[Tony.OK]

A bike doin 20 odd thousand rpms,what sounds better

[svr]

what configuration is a screamer?

For some reason i dont like hopper but his gear looks cool haha my moneys been on jorge from last year been following him through the 250s love his style and attitude!

True, Hoppers' got heavily manicured eyebrows (alarming!) - but seems to have got the hang of that whole `cranking the turns properly' thing.
See you at the salon.

[CHOPPA]

Just to add my $0.10... Ordinary road bikes are screamers, as are all World SBK bikes. The World SBK organisers banned the big-bang configuration when the manufacturers started to experiment with it.

The Ducati 800 is a screamer, I believe.

By the end of the 990 MotoGP era, all the bikes were big-bang. When I went to Philip Island MotoGP in 2005, the only screamer was the Harris V4 used by the WCM team (which folded shortly after). The difference was obvious from the exhaust sound: the WCM sounded like an ordinary multi-cylinder motorbike; the others sounded like something between a Harley and a very loud, high-revving 4-stroke lawnmower.

Man i was there for that event! i know the soud you mean! the duc sounded insane like a rocket when the different notes from the exhaust finally got to your ears