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A friend turned up on this while I was visiting another mate, he did all the work.. including fitting the turbo (from a Peugeot diesel), its got low compression pistons which take it out to 1440cc.

How does that work with what looks like the standard airbox and carbs?

There was a bloke in Clacton in 1990 who had a turbo'd Z1300, it also had a mono shock and chain drive conversion.

Nice work.
Is that an open exhaust coming out of the turbo at the front?
I bet that's quiet

Julian_Boolean wrote:How does that work with what looks like the standard airbox and carbs?

There was a bloke in Clacton in 1990 who had a turbo'd Z1300, it also had a mono shock and chain drive conversion.

It has carbs, but it has a plenum chamber that's made to look like the standard airbox. I'm told fitting a turbo to an injected bike is pretty easy, not so for a carbed bike.

rickm wrote:Nice work.
Is that an open exhaust coming out of the turbo at the front?
I bet that's quiet

Yes I think so, but it didn't sound that loud when it was revved. There's a short vid of the bike here..
https://youtu.be/1xnb9NBaA_o

That looks wicked I wouldn’t mind a spin on that

Bevelhead wrote:

Julian_Boolean wrote:How does that work with what looks like the standard airbox and carbs?

There was a bloke in Clacton in 1990 who had a turbo'd Z1300, it also had a mono shock and chain drive conversion.

It has carbs, but it has a plenum chamber that's made to look like the standard airbox. I'm told fitting a turbo to an injected bike is pretty easy, not so for a carbed bike.

That's my understanding as well, and having multiple carbs is supposed to be more difficult than a single carb, Yamaha did it with the XJ650 Turbo and had to seal the carbs.

Yeah, "blow thru" set up.

Turbo's are often fairly quiet as the exhaust note is broken up by the turbo.