new rider here

[80elevenspecial]

hi everyone im new here just joined! i just got my xs11 back from being stored for 2 long years and im in the process of getting it ready for summer rebuilding carbs, repainting it,etc. and i was wondering if anyone here knows where i can find a turbo kit for it? i saw an old article about it and im VERY interested in it

[TopCatGr58]

Hey there Tom,

Welcome to the Forum, you'll find lots of info in the tech tips on getting your machine up and running in the best shape it can be!

But now the bad news, those Turbo kits were not made for very long at all, and we've only seen a couple posted in pictures here. It's mostly a "pipe" dream, pardon the pun!! Depending on how worn your engine is, you can beef it up with a rebore to either 1179cc or 1196 cc, but that's about the extent, unless you're wanting to put bigger bucks in and try to find head/cams and such, again, extremely hard to find, possibly have to have made. The cams and heads were machined as matching sets from the factory hence the entegral bearing cam caps!!

Don't know if you know much about these bikes, but they were the fastest/stongest muscle bike in their short era, and so you've got quite a bit of power there just stock, and the throttle response is quite quick, the name was given to it because it could turn a 1/4 mile in ~11 seconds, not just for it's 1099cc displacement! SO, fix it, saddle it up and enjoy blowing the doors off of most of the V-twins out there, as well as many of the lower cc sportbikes!!!

[buickyouth]

(just a little extra sass for the morning)

Are there really V-Twins with doors on 'em?

[TopCatGr58]

Sassing back,

"Of course there aren't, they've all been blown off!!"

T.C.

[John]

Re: (just a little extra sass for the morning)

Originally posted by buickyouth
Are there really V-Twins with doors on 'em?

No, but there are V Twins with BORES on them!

[buickyouth]

yuk! yuk! yuk!

I'm liking this site more every post.

[80elevenspecial]

Re: (just a little extra sass for the morning)

Originally posted by buickyouth
Are there really V-Twins with doors on 'em?

if u cant buy that specific kit is there someone could built one maybe from the seca 650?