Bonneville America Forums Forums General Motorcycle Forums Other Bikes Ten kinds of wicked: Rocket III Turbo

I can't remember seeing this here before, so here goes:

"The Triumph Rocket -- er, Rocket III -- starts life as a production bike with the biggest capacity in motorcycledom (with apologies to the Boss Hoss). And there are very few who would say that the stock 140 hp at 5,750 rpm and 147 lb. ft. (200 Nm) of torque at 2,500 revs makes it wimpy ride."

"When you consider that the Triumph development engineers only believed their customers capable of managing electronically restricted 147 lb. ft. (200 Nm) of maximum torque at 2,500 rpm, you can imagine what 266 lb. ft. (360 Nm) at an unbelievably low 2,900 revs can do with a motorcycle before you take a seat for the first time."



Unlike some other turbo kit we've seen, there's no cutting of the back side of the front fender.

The rest of the story:
http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcycles/triumph-rocket-3-turbo/index.htm

Max. Power: 220 hp / 161.9 kW at 5,000 rpm
Max. Torque: 360 Nm at 2,900 rpm
sound pretty badass

I'd love to hear that thing whirr up...

I have seen a Rocket turbo before but that one is nicely done and looks clean. I like it.

yummy

Occasionaly Martin Motorsports shows up with their turbo Rocket at the Ephrata PA Breakfast ride. Sucker looks bone stock, including the exhaust. Be afraid!

Very clean. Eurosports Cycle in good ole Fort Worth has a Rocket III with a turbo for sale on the showroom floor. Theirs is mounted under the bike in front of the rear tire. The folks in the shop that have given her a twist say "you really know you've got something when you get on this".

I can only imagine...

Check this Rocket III out....this is at my local dealership. 335 hp with 302 ft torque. I am not sure how to post pics of it...

http://www.echocycle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=74

Ceuls

here ya go:

That fender makes it look like a character on the Simpsons.

Now that that is a bike I'd like to see...

Ran into this checkin out the CL listings this morning.
Turbo R3 for sale.
So... Anyone else heard of Methanol injection?!?

I've heard of it.

It is a water methanol injection and has been around for for a while. Used as far back as WWII on prop driven airplanes (that I know of- maybe longer). It lowers the intake temps and adds a higher octane, so you can run higher boost psi's and more timing; thus making more HP (in a turbo or other forced induction application). Snow Performance sells a really good kit for trucks and has info on it (I had the single shot on my 01 Cumins Ram- 488RWHP and 704ftbls torque at the tires).

I have got to have me one o those!!!!