Originally Posted by
stefan
Mario, although he took a lot of knowledge with him, missed out on a few important things, mainly metallurgy.
The piston material makes or breaks an engine power wise and the correct steel will make a crankshaft last, not snap.
Indeed are the right materials very important and I do believe the engine is good prooved by the modified versions. It is a shame the box-stock version is not competive.
Do you think the GRP engine will be technically very different from the Ninja?
I don't think so, it will be an evolution, but under the GRP brand name.
I know the Falcon engines have a different timing, I did run one a hile ago and I must say foor 300 euro somewhere from Germany it is a good engine.
It could well be, that the Ninja was a "project", to start up something, and if it went wrong, it didn't hurt the GRP brand name....
Marketing can have a very strainge logica...
It is no secret the Ninja is a GRP engine and has many people loving it but if they are following the teamdrivers it can hurt the GRP engine market.