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Old 11-28-2005, 02:00 PM
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Just wondering if anyone on the site has turboed there hawk. I was wondering what you came up for in regards to mounting the turbo.
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Old 11-30-2005, 01:05 PM
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I have read a few posts about it. Personally it seems like to big of a pain in the ***. Piping wise, time wise, money wise...etc, etc.
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Old 11-30-2005, 04:20 PM
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Although it would be a good candidate, it's low compression and has good torque to make up for the lag.

I used to own a 1984 Kawasaki GPZ750 turbo, that thing was a blast in a straight line but not the best for carving corners. I needed to get a second grip on the bars so I didn't fall off when the turbo kicked in. First production bike to dip into the tens!
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Re: turbo

want me to save you endless headaches and lots of money?

sell your superhawk and buy a ZX10/GSXR1000/R1/CBR1000/hayabusa/ZX12R/ZX14.

Cause a superhawk turbo is only going to make about as much as they make stock, and will be a huge hassle to do. The reason inlines are great for turbos, is because it is easy to make equal length headers/manifolds for the turbo to feed off of(plus they are fuel injected from the facotry these days).
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One of my old riding buddies had a buell st something or other. You know the one with a flip up seat. He put a MR Turbo kit on it and it would keep right up with my hawk and gave me all I could handle. Now if it can help a pig like that I'm sure it could do pretty well on the hawk.
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