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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: oldmotherfoccer on 29 December 2010, 05:06:29 pm

Title: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: oldmotherfoccer on 29 December 2010, 05:06:29 pm
Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.


no no no, its NOT i repeat NOT a thuncercat engine, thats why so many people get muddled,

why not just use "carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003"
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Farjo on 29 December 2010, 05:35:47 pm
OK :thumbup
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: frazer on 29 December 2010, 06:37:35 pm
Or just change it to "The proper Fazer" 1998-2003
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Username on 30 December 2010, 05:19:53 pm
Isn't it just easier to call them the air cooled fazers?
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: flesh on 31 December 2010, 01:02:08 pm
Quote from: frazer on 29 December 2010, 06:37:35 pm
Or just change it to "The proper Fazer" 1998-2003

 :lol
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: dx408 on 10 February 2011, 11:22:06 pm
How about the Fazer with crap lights  :lol

Until you HID it that is  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Username on 04 March 2011, 06:58:30 pm
What's a 'Thundercarb'
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Motorbreath on 30 June 2011, 01:41:04 am
What is happening?
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: jusu on 30 June 2011, 10:24:19 pm
Not much, watching the game, having a Fazer.
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Supanova7G on 19 September 2011, 08:12:29 pm
You have me all curious now because I was also misguided and thought we had thundercat engines. What do we actually have?
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: oldmotherfoccer on 21 September 2011, 09:14:11 am
you have a Fazer engine that shares some gearbox components with a thundercat, It was never a "detuned" sports bike engine, which is the common misconception, it was an engine designed for the fazer
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: mr grimsdale on 23 September 2011, 04:54:40 pm
So after all these years of having a  :faz  with " :faz carbs" then to be told that they are in actual fact "Thundercat carbs" Then to be told that they REALLY are  :faz  carbs that were made specifically for the  :faz  to fit on a  :faz  and not on a Thundercat..Good, think I have got it now, but to be honest I think Thundercat carbs sounds better than  :faz  carbs so I think we should just call them "kiddon Thundercat carbs" that want to be  :faz  carbs.........With the air cooled engine.


hope that clears that up....going for a drink now, think i need one.   :lurk
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Dunky on 24 September 2011, 11:12:52 am
So I take it from all that you have a Fazer then Davie  :lol   :lol   :lol .
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: mr grimsdale on 26 September 2011, 08:23:55 pm
Nope...........I have a  :faz    :thumbup
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: oldmotherfoccer on 27 September 2011, 12:33:38 am
 :lol yes you have a fazer
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Bracechenko on 27 September 2011, 09:02:39 pm
Just to keep this thread alive.....I know it has cooling fins but isn't it water cooled rather than air cooled??  :lol

Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: solorider on 28 September 2011, 07:24:40 pm
Quote from: Bracechenko on 27 September 2011, 09:02:39 pm
Just to keep this thread alive.....I know it has cooling fins but isn't it water cooled rather than air cooled??  :lol
technicaly the bike is both air and water cooled,you need air flow to cool the water in the radiator,no air flow and the engine will over heat
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Major Rant on 28 September 2011, 09:18:24 pm
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technicaly the bike is both air and water cooled,you need air flow to cool the water in the radiator,no air flow and the engine will over heat

Just want to stamp on this before it becomes an 'established truth'.
The FZS600 engine is water cooled, the fins are a 'styling addition' and have no function (I think they harp back to the old 1980s FAZER 750).
The 'air-flow is needed' argument is also false: If you take a stationary FZS600 and run the engine for 30 minutes guess what happens .... The radiator fan starts!! :rollin
 
"And this, my lord is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped ..." - M Python.
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: Kev8261 on 28 September 2011, 09:45:48 pm
The END
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: kebab19 on 29 September 2011, 09:07:53 am
Probably doesn't help to have the bike lumped in as a derivative of the Thundercat as per the Haynes manual?
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: limax2 on 29 September 2011, 09:47:29 pm
Quote from: Major Rant on 28 September 2011, 09:18:24 pm

The 'air-flow is needed' argument is also false: If you take a stationary FZS600 and run the engine for 30 minutes guess what happens .... The radiator fan starts!! :rollin 
 

And the fan draws in air to cool the water!  :)
Title: Re: Thundercat carb-engined Fazers 1998-2003.
Post by: solorider on 29 September 2011, 10:04:46 pm
Quote from: limax2 on 29 September 2011, 09:47:29 pm
Quote from: Major Rant on 28 September 2011, 09:18:24 pm

The 'air-flow is needed' argument is also false: If you take a stationary FZS600 and run the engine for 30 minutes guess what happens .... The radiator fan starts!! :rollin 
 

And the fan draws in air to cool the water!  :)
and that is the answer to my question,you need air flow to cool the engine,no air no cooling no matter where the air comes from