How did the Japanese make their 2 strokes go so well?
Professor Gordon Blair / Belfast University
Or Walter Kaaden possibly
Edit....hadn`t checked out the link. The link is the story I was thinking about, but Walter`s name came to mind and his story has similarities.
Both right.....Kaaden was the engineer who worked it all out, and Ernst Degner was the rider who defected to the west, ultimately taking Kaaden's two stroke knowledge to Suzuki....
he was at queens uni in Belfast and had worked out that by using the pipe you can reverse the pressure pulse thus forcing unspent air fuel mixture back into the cylinder. Very clever chap. I met him when I was recruiting from queens into the Motorsport industry. I had a fair bit to do with their 250 team when jezza was their rider and rob fleck was the team manager. Some of the very best Motorsport engineers studied under proff Blair. He was also the man who introduced me to kenny Roberts, chuck and warren willing which started a 6 year working partnership that was one of the best I've ever had.
Was the mastermind behind the expansion chamber exhaust.
I miss two stokes in racing.
