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Old March 13th, 2018, 10:15 AM   #40
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MOTM - Nov '18, Mar '17
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Originally Posted by greg737 View Post
But I absolutely love me some good straight-cut gear noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcZcY2oJ-nM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWq4BiwzSQ

The 5th Generation VFR 800 (1998 to 2001) is the (everyday motorcycle) king of gear-whine with its gear-driven camshafts. All of those wonderful straight-cut cogs mated to each other from the crankshaft up to the four individual camshafts of the V-4.

The VFR800 5th Generation "RC46" engine makes better gear-driven camshaft sounds than the earlier VFR750 engines because it (the RC46) has the camshaft gears mounted on the right-hand side of the engine rather than buried down in between the cylinders.

Too bad that Honda went to chain-driven camshafts in the later generations, 6th Generation and onward.
On the 6th..a parts-bin, cheaper to manufacture, bean counter/corporate decision...solely financially based. I've always considered it a BFM (big effin' mistake)
The decision affected reliability too...known failure problems afflict the CCT adjusters.

Shame...the RC46 sound is intoxicating, addictive even.
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