217 mph Hayabusa

[rogerj]

Is it possible that a Hayabusa can go 217 mph. The owner says this one can.http://www.kittyhawkfreepress.com/obxmo ... enews.html

He says its totally modified. My experience with speed was on my eliminator. at 165, I could barely hold on. I can't imagine what 217 would be like. Has anyone here gone that fast?

mixer

[niterider]

Never ever that fast!!! I have been at about 110 mph on a kz400 years ago. Now 95 to 100 mph is fast enough for me and not for long distances at a time.

[Sobereality]

lol that dosnt sound safe

one idiot : 900 pounds of bike / is there a release letter involved ?

[ZooTech]

Is it possible that a Hayabusa can go 217 mph. The owner says this one can.http://www.kittyhawkfreepress.com/obxmo ... enews.html

He says its totally modified. My experience with speed was on my eliminator. at 165, I could barely hold on. I can't imagine what 217 would be like. Has anyone here gone that fast?

mixer

Bill Ward stands by his fully loaded 2000 Suzuki Hayabusa. When I say loaded, I don’t mean luggage, I'm talking metal steroids ! This is the bike your parents warned you about. There are more modifications here than we have space to write in. Let’s just say Bill has had the beast up to 217 miles per hour and once raced it at the Hertford Racetrack. Bill lives in Elizabeth City and commutes on his Hayabusa to work at the NAPA Auto Parts store in Kitty Hawk.

Assuming the speed was achieved as a result of certified methods, sure it's possible. In order for the results to be certified, however, two runs must be made, one in each direction, to account for any head or tail wind. The results are then averaged to obtain the official top speed. This is usually done at the Bonneville Salt Flats or similar testing grounds.

[oldnslo]

Very possible. '99's did about 194 stock. It takes a lot of mods to achieve speeds in the over 200 range, but has been done on numerous occasions. Increasing wind resistance becomes a bigger factor the faster you try to go, and it takes much more horsepower to overcome it as speed increases. I've heard of 233 on a '90's Suzuki, but it shared few parts with the street bike. Everything was modified somehow, and probably wasn't much fun to ride on the street.

[Skier]

I thought the latest batches of 'busas could do over 200 MPH (true land speed, not indicated) off the showroom floor.


I might be wrong, it's happened once or twice before...

[shane-o]

arnt the ZX14R's supposed to be faster than the GSX1300R off the sales room floor?

I heard a 14R, would do about 335kmh (I think thats 210mph) with no probs and no mods.


But I ve always liked a good story so that could be completely crapola.

[Aquaduct]

Frankly, I doubt it. Bikes, even the busa's, have notoriously bad aerodynamics (well, technically it's the rider whose aerodynamics suck, the bike just can't fight it). Read about someone being clocked from a police plane at 200+ mph a while back and some engineers I know calculated that you'd have to be up in the 200+ horse range to be able to push it that fast. Tough to do that with the size engines you're talking about. If someone did try to tweak the motor to rev that high and pound that hard, I wouldn't want to be on top of it when the valve train let loose.

I think this is wishful urban legend thinking.

[ZooTech]

I think this is wishful urban legend thinking.

A quick search on ol' Google turned up this:

http://www.landracing.com/events/worldf ... tary01.htm

Rick Yacoucci running his Hayabusa in the MPS-G 1350 cc class ran a qualifier at 219 mph and backed it up with a 221mph pass.

It's not only possible for a modded Hayabusa to manage 200+ mph, I think it's darn near expected. I got a CD-ROM from Mike (the Admin) and it includes a video of three Hayabusa's, one stock, one with nitrous, and one with a big-bore kit and a turbo all racing a supercharged Viper on a desert road in New Mexico. These bikes (and the car for that matter) were reaching speeds north of 200mph without trying.

[Aquaduct]

Alright, I stand corrected. But I'll still let the daredevils get on the plane, I'll get in it!