聽過767i嗎? 採用V16引擎...
BMW E32 767i V16 "Goldfish"
In the late 1980s, BMW secretly built an experimental super 7 that was powered by a massive V-16 engine.
The project was the brainchild of Dr. Karlheinz Lange, the engineer who was in charge of BMW’s powertrain department at the time. He enlisted the help of an experienced engineer named Adolf Fischer to bring to life his vision of a 7 dialed up to 11. Fischer was seen as the right man for the job because he had designed the 5.0-liter V-12 found under the hood of the 750i and the 750iL.
Work on the new engine began in July of 1987. Fischer essentially developed an evolution of the 5.0-liter V-12 (called M70 in BMW-speak) that retained the 60-degree V but received four additional cylinders. The block was cast using high-silicon aluminum, and the heads were each fitted with a single chain-driven overhead cam. All told, the V-16 had a displacement of 6,651 cubic centimeters (about 406 cubic inches), and it was nearly a foot longer than the V-12 it was based on.
The engine was tested on a dyno for the first time on December 24, 1987, and the results were downright impressive. It generated 408 horsepower at 5,200 RPM, and 461 pound-feet of torque at 3,900 RPM. In comparison, the 750i’s V-12 was rated at 300 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque, and the U.S.-spec E34-series M5 used a 3.5-liter straight-six rated at 256 ponies and 243 pound-feet of twist.
With the 16-cylinder running smooth as silk, BMW began to look for the best way to shoe-horn it between the front fenders of an E32-series 750iL.
“What was immediately obvious was that the engine would not have fitted without a substantial redesign of the car,” explained project manager Hanns-Peter Weisbarth in an interview with Bimmer magazine in August of 2011.
The super 7 was still largely experimental, so BMW went with the simplest solution. The 750iL’s radiator was sent back to the parts bin and replaced by two smaller units that were installed in the trunk, a setup used more than a decade earlier on the IMSA-winning 3.0 CSL. The engineers cut ducts into the rear quarter panels, installed hand-built fiberglass scoops to direct cooling air to the radiators, and fitted the rear fascia with a wide metal grille in order to extract hot air from the trunk. The custom grille required the use of smaller taillamps, and the license plate had to be relocated to the bottom of the rear bumper. The prototype was painted in a dark shade of gold, so it was affectionately nicknamed Goldfish.
The series-produced 750iL was equipped with a four-speed automatic transmission built by ZF, but the V16-powered prototype used a six-speed manual gearbox borrowed from the 8 Series coupe. It accelerated from zero to 60 MPH in about six seconds, and it didn’t stop until it hit roughly 175 MPH, a dream come true for executives who commuted on Germany’s famed autobahn. The downside is that fuel economy checked in at 11 MPG in stop-and-go city driving, 16 MPG at 75 MPH, and as low as 9.6 MPG when cruising at triple-digit speeds.
Lange, Fischer, and Weisbarth knew from the very beginning of the project that the Goldfish might not receive the proverbial green light for production. The V-16 engine was promising, and bringing a 767iL to the market would have shown the might of BMW’s research and development department, but the automaker’s board of management decided not to move forward with the development of a super 7 Series because a V-12 was deemed big enough. The Goldfish consequently remained a one-of-a-kind prototype and today remains in BMW’s possession, though not on public display.
📝 by Ronan Glon (hemmings.com)
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レストア完成、
おめでとう、
HONDA and DREAM CB750FOUR (Doremushebe ..floatage.. Foix) are motorcycles to which Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was doing the manufacturing sales.
Details until developing
At first, the reputation in foreign countries was not fragrant though HONDA that accomplished complete conquest by the road racing world championship at that time aimed to advance worldwide on a commercial side, and announced and had exported the new car of dream CB450 etc. one after another except the desire. It is because there was respect that lacks from a room that the rider can manipulate even if the performance is put out by a small displacement little to easiness to get on because this values a top speed of the motorcycle as a flow from the race.
Then, all technologies at that time will be concentrated on manufacturing as a motorcycle at that time because it becomes a maximum level displacement though the vehicle that can correspond also to a recent race standard after coexisting of the performance and room is attempted because of the expansion of the displacement is planned and production was decided.
The vehicle manufactured thus is dream CB750FOUR (henceforth CB). The dream of the car name is a series trademark that HONDA was using for the efficient at that time, sports type.
The main equipment and performance of CB
Engine Parallel four cycle four cylinders OHC
The cylinder is narrowed a little by using a lot of parts of aluminum and width and the weight of the engine are suppressed though the engine adopted four parallel cylinder engine of two-wheel mass production first car considering externals. About the Shaiki valve, not DOHC but easiness to get on and productivity for the high rotation used from the low rotation were considered to a racer at that time, and ..daring.. SOHC was adopted. As two-wheel mass production car, it is the first time to have equipped four cylinders all with the carburetor.
Engine performance- 738cc・67 horsepower and maximum speed 200 km/h
The displacement and the horsepower of the engine were decided in shape to compare engines of this industry and others car. The performance that it is possible that it put on the speed at 200 km/h was still secured though it was suppressed from the priority of easiness to get on to the output extent more than the highest all motorcycles on the market, at that time, value though it was also possible that this engine raised the performance a little more. However, this is called the purpose is for the parts supplier to clarify the responsibility to the manufacturing thing to HONDA though parts only for CB will be both made as for a tire at that time and the chain because it is not possible to finish corresponding to this horsepower, and the explosion and the plasmotomy were repeated while developing.
Front wheel disk brake
The manufacturer named the MV Agusta had already used a small amount of front wheel disk brake in the production vehicle. However, it has been decided to make it equip with the disk brake by "Authoritative word" of Soichiro Honda who is finally the president and exhibit though the comparison discussion was done which the drum or the disk to be used just before Motor Show to which a real car of CB is exhibited because it was unexampled in two-wheel mass production car. As a result, it is told that it had a hard time in the accumulation of knowhow though the disk brake will be adopted for the first time as two-wheel mass production car. It is true that working of the brake worsens extremely when the rain running.
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CB1000 Suparfoa (CB1000 SUPER FOUR,CB1000SF) is a motorcycle that Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was developed from 1992 to 1997, and sold.
Outline of edit
CB1000 Suparfoa was announced to the 29th Tokyo Motor Show in 1991 based on the concept of PROJECT BIG-1.
* Install four series cylinder of four water-cooled strokes DOHC engine.
* The style of sexy wild &.
* Possess impressed performance that enchants the mind of the running person.
One put on the market following CB400 Suparfoa put on the market previously on
November 24, 1992.
Foot surroundings etc. were changed on July 7, 1994, and the bikini caul was installed and CB1000 Suparfoa and T2 that united the colors in the black were added.
Zet moxa cautery) is total displacement 903 to which Kawasaki Heavy Industries was doing the manufacturing sales from 1972 to 1976 It is a motorcycle of cc ..Kawasaki, Z1 (Zettowan), and Z900 (...
About the name "900 Super Four"
In the catalog of the sale this time, the character of this "900 Super Four" is seen in the cover. This name is still used in Europe.
Kawasaki Mach (MACH) is a generic name of the motorcycle series of the on-road type with two stroke three cylinder engine by which Kawasaki Heavy Industries was doing the manufacturing sales.
Kawasaki 750 750SS MACH IV (H2) Kawasaki 750SS SS
Air cooling two stroke three cylinders 500 that had been put on the market in 1969 As for Mach III (H1) of cc, popularity came to be deprived gradually when HONDA CB750 was put on the market a little delaying though the price was about 1.5 times the performance without the great difference though it was popular from the strong acceleration in Europe and America.
Kawasaki is 750 already before this Marketing because of assumption as the change in all respects to model (Z1) more than CB by the appearance of this HONDA CB750 becoming after 1972 became clear though it started the development of four cc 4 stroke cylinder car.
Therefore, the boa stroke of the H1 engine is expanded to accelerate at least and to overwhelm CB at maximum speed as the rival candidate between those (That is, velocity of the world) and 750 Having assumed cc is Mach IV (H2).
H2 whose fuel cost is worse than H1 was also scarce the way corresponding to exhaust gas/noise regulation that had become more realistic, and S1 (250 cc) according to the oil crisis that had been generated immediately after Z1 began to sell it in the autumn of 1972/ S3 (400 cc)/ H1 (500 cc) was KH250 respectively/ 400/ Only H2 had the model in 1975 and became a model disappearance while changed 500 and the name (Even if you dared to accompany the down of power) and continued.
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and XJR (Eccsjeiarl) are motorcycles of a naked type equipped with the air cooled engine to which YAMAHA MOTOR is doing the manufacturing sales, and numerical models are produced as a series model according to the displacement. Alias Pekejeiarl and Pekejei.
XJR1200 was put on the market in 1994. This is the one misappropriated from FJ1200 who is the Zarah model of this company and the displacement is 1188cc though engines are a large-scale automatic operation two-wheeled vehicle specifications of XJR400 previously put on the market, and are four stroke air cooling and 4 parallel cylinders in a naked type in the body type. It was popular as the opposition model of HONDA and CB1000 SUPER FOUR that had been put on the market at a simultaneous period.
Moreover, XJR1200R that changed meters to steering wheel mount → caul mount installing, and unifying the half caul based on a model concerned was put on the market in 1996. The user who high-speed runs as those who love about the air cooled engine has the deep-rooted popularity though the number of the bare-bones model doesn't go out and become a production end in several years.
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CB400 SUPER FOUR (Shebe Suparfoa and abbreviation: CB400SF) is a motorcycle of 400cc naked type that Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is putting on the market. Alias Sufoa CB400SF(NC31)
CB400SF was developed under the concept of PROJECT BIG-1. In PROJECT BIG-1, the following requirements hang.
* Adopt four strokes and four DOHC water-cooled parallel cylinder engines in
the heart.
* The style of wild sexy &.
* Possess impressed performance that enchants the mind of the running
person.
The reference is exhibited to CB1000 SUPER FOUR in the 29th Tokyo Motor Show as a model of first PROJECT BIG-1, and it is put on the market in April, 1992 afterwards in 1992.
It fought hard by sales because the style was more halfway on a practical side compared with the thing and the rival car with a little capacity of the fuel tank, and it reflected on the failure of CB-1, and CB400SF was put on the market in shape to take the style of a great car before though CB-1 was sold when HONDA till then did naked by four cylinders though CB-1 was excellent in the sports performance.
As the main change point from CB-1
* It changes from the style with a sporty feeling to the style of the old car style
of CB750F and CBX400F.
* Szasz
* It changes to a large-scale tank of the CB1100R type.
* Double disk making about reception desk brake
* The cam gear train is abolished from NC23E that is four water-cooled parallel cylinder engine that continues from CBR400R from generation to generation, the fin is added, and it installs it.
Version R appeared in the minor change, and Version S of Bikinicaulres appeared afterwards. Moreover, the model named CB400FOUR that takes the style of the CB750FOUR style based on NC31 exists, too.
Version R(version are)
Sale on March 10, 1995. Model 1 equipped with bikini caul.
Change point from STD model
* Headlight only for bikini caul &
* Silencer made of aluminum (STD is an all-in-one design of iron).
* Adoption of PGM-IG control system (electronically controlled ignition system) that synchronizes with open times of throttle and supplies the best ignition timing.
The price at the sale this time is from STD model to 100,000 yen up.
Version S(Barjon'es)
Version S removes the bikini caul from version R, and is 2 whose reception desk brake is four opposing made in NISSIN KOGYO jar caliper besides assuming a naked style.
Moreover, three where the model that the reception desk brake is equipped with four opposing made of Brembo jar caliper by the minor change exists, too.
CB400SF HYPER VTEC (NC39)
Restyling is done from NC31 on February 22, 1999, the form number becomes NC39, too and most of the body such as the body, frames, and engines has been improved.
The main change point from NC31
* HYPER VTEC that becomes the first time the first is adopted in the medium-
size car.
* It changes to the radial tire (change & swing arm change in tire strength to a size of the tire and large-scale and specification ZR cooking stoves according to it).
* Great change in exterior design
Especially, it is made the adoption of HYPER VTEC that is the changeable valve mechanism for the engine the eyeball of restyling. However, this HYPER VTEC is the one adjusting it by opening and shutting not the camshaft but the valve unlike VTEC of four wheels. When a constant rotational speed is exceeded, it comes to make it to four valves concretely, to improve fuel cost by the one that developed from the REV function provided in CBR400F before, this is named HYPER VTEC with VTEC of four wheels to differentiate though four valve valve the second grade of junior high-school has closed even a constant rotational speed.
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