Fully Stressed Engine choice

[murpia]

With the trend towards fully-stressed engines, does anyone have any opinions on the best choice?

Presumably the details of the engine mounts and gearbox / crankcase strength are primary factors here.

[murpia]

With the trend towards fully-stressed engines, does anyone have any opinions on the best choice?

Presumably the details of the engine mounts and gearbox / crankcase strength are primary factors here.

[Lyn Labahn UW-Madison]

Just so you know, the fully stressed engine thing is nothing new. Teams have been doing it for years. As far as data, good lunk getting anything from the manufacturers, I can almost garuntee that they won't share anything. I can say that one nice thing about the CBR F4 that is nice is there is mounts low, next to the bottom of the cylinders, which a lot of teams use. We have a 2001+ GSXR engine and the mounts are only up high on the cylinder head. None the less we ran a semi-stressed design this year without any problems.

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