A V3 engine that is about to return to life

Honda is Honda. A said biker that the Japanese has earned by doing things well for almost a hundred years of history. In the 80s, Honda won the 500cc World Cup with an engine that had never developed. One of the most famous in history, practically impossible to replicate. We talk about a very special three -cylinder engine: the V3.

The first V3. NSR400. The bikers with more solera may still be her skin with this name. Is the denomination of One of the Honda sportsmen produced between 1985 and 1988although he never landed in Spain. An engine that cubicated 387cc … with two cylinders arranged in parallel and one in vertical disposition.

Honda thus invented the V3 engine, one that allowed to manufacture a motorcycle with more power than a bicylindrical and lighter than a tetrachindric. A motorcycle that inherited the design of the NS500 world champion in competition, and whose only sin was the technical complexity to maintain its engine.

As a curious fact: the NSR400 had three escapes: two for the even cylinders and one for the remaining one.

This was the curious structure of Honda V3.

The mess with the cylinders. There are four traditional engines in the motorcycle industry: mocylindrícos, bicilindric, tricylindrical and tetracylindrical. BI and Tetra are the most common in the middle and high displacement, due to their structure of even cylinders, easy balanced and low production costs (especially in the case of bicilindrical).

There are those who define the tricylindrical (in motorcycles) Like the perfect engine: With the best of performance in high revolutions of the tetra, and the thrust in low and media of the BI. Manufacturers such as Triumph have been betting on them for years, and just landed as zontes.

Returning to life. Honda has confirmed that Your V3 engine will return to life with a much more modern configuration. One in which the world’s first electrical compressor will be equipped for motorcycles. Kawasaki was the first brand in the world to equip a street motorcycle super charger such as H2 and H2Rbut it is a mechanical engine driven, not electric.

With the Honda electrical turbocharger wants to achieve a huge power, although no data on its displacement has yet been offered. What we do know is that it will be extremely thin and compact, designed for sports motorcycles.

Thinking about Euro 5+. The emission regulations They are increasingly restrictive, but Honda has thought about it. The company ensures that its V3 will not only be especially competitive in performance, but also in escape gase emissions.

“We will continue to develop the new generation of internal combustion engines to achieve serial production, so they look forward to the arrival of this new generation.” Minoru Kato, director of the Honda Power Motorcycle and Power Products Business Division.

De Honda not only clashes that they are thinking of bringing to the market one of the most complex engines at the mechanical level of history, but continue to invest in new combustion architectures oriented to the maximum performance.

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