[Ducati] 848 watercooled Duc vs aircooled Duc...

[Scottie Ducati]

Good point Hopper...
Still ain't much of a poor man to be grabbin an 848 ;-)

Scottie

On Dec 7, 2007 11:33 AM, HOPPER ELDRIDGE <hoppereldridge at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> With tightening noise and air pollution standards, air cooled engines are
> becoming harder and harder to make to meet these standards. Noise just isn't
> the exhaust sound. Fins become sound propagaters too. A water jacket will
> hid a lot of this extraneous sound/noise.
>
>  Air polution is critical and is controlled by engine temps. The wide
> range of temps that an air cooled engine sees is harder to make meet
> standards where as a water cooled engine will produce a narrower range of
> temps that will be easier to meet polution standards.
>
>  With Europe having their own standards, the US standards, and the
> Republika of Kalifornia having their own standards, controlling engine temps
> will more critical.
>
>  So as someone stated, the 848 may be the next poor mans' Super Sport
> (hmmm...I resemble that remark!)
>
>  Hopper
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