Forged pistons Now: Ceramic Engines.

Omer Farooq Khan ohmfab@comcast.net
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:53:25 -0500


> It rev'd to something like 20k, IIRC, and was on some
> test bike produced by a major japanese motorcyle
> manufacturer.  I think the major reason it never flew
> was that it would have cost something like $100k
> to produce, once again IIRC.

Are talking about the oval piston Honda NR750?  I don't know the details but
I think they made a few to meet homologation rules and those were priced at
$50,000+.

A picture of the engine:
http://www.sportbikez.net/html/showpicture.php?picture=324

and the bike:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~john/vfr/specs/92-nr750.html

Drool....

Omer F. Khan
92 White SE-R w/ stuff
88 Yamaha FZR400 w/ 600 motor swap