sad1975
Junior Member
i am thinking putting a turbo on my fz6. has eneyone on the fotum did this. just looking for some opinion or some info.
fz6 turbo
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dysfoundation
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dxh24
Ambitious But Rubbish
Well, 2 ways you can do this, if it's possible...
1: toss a turbo on it, drive it 1 day blow your engine, be searching CL for a new bike
2: do it the right way and upgrade your inner engine parts before you attempt the turbo
Yamaha makes there engines certified to be able to hand a certain amount of stress. By forcing more air into the engine to create more violent explosions, you are creating more stress/heat. So, typically when one tries to put a turbo on something they upgrade the inner workings first so that the engine can take the stress without doing damage. also you may have to look into a better cooling system... more heat means more expansion, and on liquid cooled engine the tolerances are already very fine on these bikes...
All of this of course, costs money, it isn't cheap.
That being said i think the FZ has plenty enough arse for me lol
1: toss a turbo on it, drive it 1 day blow your engine, be searching CL for a new bike
2: do it the right way and upgrade your inner engine parts before you attempt the turbo
Yamaha makes there engines certified to be able to hand a certain amount of stress. By forcing more air into the engine to create more violent explosions, you are creating more stress/heat. So, typically when one tries to put a turbo on something they upgrade the inner workings first so that the engine can take the stress without doing damage. also you may have to look into a better cooling system... more heat means more expansion, and on liquid cooled engine the tolerances are already very fine on these bikes...
All of this of course, costs money, it isn't cheap.
That being said i think the FZ has plenty enough arse for me lol
Just buy my fz1 if your looking for more power. MUCH cheaper than a turbo kit
dxh24
Ambitious But Rubbish
+1
What he said, unless you're looking to get your bike in a magazine or take it to bike shows, upgrading to the 1 is not a bad idea
novaks47
Yeah!
True, but there have been quite a few people that have turbo'ed R6's, and our FZ's use de-tuned R6 engines(via cams and ECU), so it's probably not all that difficult. Expensive? Oh yes, very much so! lol I'll bet you wouldn't even have to upgrade the internals on these engines. For the money, it'd probably be cheaper to just slap on an R6 top end, and get an R6 ECU to get a good bump in power. Then turbo it. Ok, so forget the money, and call it more fun.
Yes it has been done. One of our members from San Antonio did it a year or two ago. He created a thread for it.
