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Claimed power: 147.2kW[197hp]@9000rpm
Claimed torque: 166.8Nm[123ft-lbs]@6500rpm
Wet weight: 310kg (full tank, oil and coolant)
Fuel capacity: 15L
Oil capacity: 5.9L
Engine: G.E.N.I.C.H Liquid-cooled DOHC four-valve 65-degree V4 four-stroke
Bore and stroke: 90.0 x 66.0mm
Displacement: 1679cc
Compression ratio: 11.3:1
Fuel delivery: YCC-I intake, YCC-T throttle, quad 48mm throttle-bodies, quad 12-hole injectors
Exhaust: Titanium/stainless steel four-into-one-into-two-into-four
Gearbox: Five-speed constant mesh
Ratios: 1 2.375, 1.810, 1.400, 1.115, 0.935
Final ratio: 3.083
Clutch: Wet multi-plate 19-plate slipper clutch, diaphragm spring
Final drive: Shaft
Frame type: Aluminium cast and extruded diamond-shaped Delta Box
Wheelbase: 1700mm
Rake: 31 degrees
Trail: 148mm
Front suspension: 52mm oxidised titanium coated conventional forks, 225mm pitch, 30mm offset, fully adjustable, 120mm travel
Rear suspension: Monocross link-type fully adjustable (all remote) shock, 110mm travel
Front brake: Dual 320mm floating wave rotors with six-piston radial-mount calipers and Brembo radial-pull master-cylinder, ABS
Rear brake: Single 298mm floating wave rotor with pin-slide single piston caliper, ABS
Front wheel: Cast alloy five spoke, 3.50 x 18in
Rear wheel: Cast alloy five spoke, 6.00 x 18in
Front tyre: Bridgestone BT028 120/70 – 18
Rear tyre: Bridgestone BT028 200/50 – 18
Ground clearance: 140mm
Seat height: 775mm
Overall height: 1190mm
Overall length: 2395mm
Instruments: Electronic fuel tank mounted display with temp, trips, live fuel, throttle angle opening, stop watch and count down, intake temp, gear position – dash display with digital speed, analogue tacho, programmable shift light
Price: Expect to pay around $30,000 (call your local dealer for details on ordering and deposit payment system for the new VMAX)
Warranty: Two-years/unlimited kilometre
Colours: Solar Black

Powering the new VMAX is an all-new 1679cc liquid-cooled four-stroke DOHC 65 degree V4 engine.

Running with bore x stroke dimensions of 90.0 x 66.0mm (compared to 76.0 x 66.0mm for the old VMAX) and featuring a compression ratio of 11.3:1, the new powerplant develops 147.2kW[197hp]@9000rpm, together with a huge torque output of 166.8Nm[123ft-lbs]@6500rpm.

The new VMAX benefits from advanced Yamaha G.E.N.I.C.H (Genesis in Electronic engineering aimed at New, Innovative Control technology based on Human sensibilities) technology with features such as YCC-I (Yamaha Chip Controlled Intake) and YCC-T (Yamaha Chip Controlled Throttle) which are key factors in achieving the new engine’s high levels of power. This new high-tech engine is the first Yamaha V4 to be equipped with a sophisticated new fuel injection system.

In order to achieve a rapid and efficient combustion process Yamaha engineers have designed a new four-valve pent-roof combustion chamber. For such a large capacity engine with its massive bores, these new high-efficiency combustion chambers are remarkably compact, and their space-saving design has been facilitated by the introduction of an ingenious new camshaft drive system.

On a conventional DOHC engine, the intake and exhaust camshafts are usually driven by one chain, but Yamaha engineers have designed a system which the intake camshaft is driven by a chain, while the exhaust camshaft is driven by a gear mechanism. This innovative combined chain and gear cam drive minimizes the pitch between the intake and exhaust camshafts, which in turn permits a much more compact cylinder head design. The new VMAX also runs with Iridium spark plugs.

The use of the space-saving combined cam drive has also allowed narrower valve angle of 14 degrees IN and 15 degrees EX, giving a total of 29 degrees. This narrow valve angle helps to minimize engine dimensions, while also permitting the use of optimised port shapes.
Yamaha engineers have also reduced the overall weight of the valve train assembly by using an inner shim type valve clearance adjustment system, as opposed to the outer shim system on the previous VMAX engine.

Despite the fact that engine features a 40 per cent increase in cubic capacity compared to the old model the new V4 powerplant’s overall dimensions are remarkably compact.

In order to keep the new engine’s front-to-rear length as short as possible, it adopts a 65-degree V bank, compared to 70 degrees on the original VMAX. This narrower angle between the massive cylinders serves to concentrate mass for more neutral handling performance, and makes the new powerplant 27mm shorter than the original.

Also, the use of a centrally located cam chain helps to minimize the new engine’s width. Despite the fact that the bore dimensions on the new larger-capacity VMAX are over 18 per cent larger than its predecessor, the new engine’s overall width is approximately the same as the current model, and overall height is only 6.5mm taller.

Another example of the way in which sophisticated technology has been used to enhance the performance on the new VMAX is evident in the new forged aluminium pistons.

Fracture-split (FS) carburised conrods were first used on the 2004 model YZF-R1, and in order to handle the huge power and torque output of the new 1679cc V4 engine, this technology is now featured on the new VMAX.

The YCC-I (Yamaha Chip Controlled Intake) system is designed to vary the intake funnel length so that it is ‘tuned’ to give a positive intake pulse that best suits the prevailing engine speed.

When engine revs rise above 6650rpm, electronically-controlled servomotors cause each intake funnel to separate instantaneously, effectively creating a shorter intake funnel measuring only 54mm from 150mm, which enables the VMAX engine to deliver even stronger performance from the mid-range right through to peak rpm.

Another highly advanced feature seen on the new VMAX is the YCC-T throttle, which features the same design as that used on the current Yamaha supersport models.

This innovative throttle has a remarkably high calculating speed, and assesses the engine’s running conditions every millisecond, which enables the system to respond instantaneously to rider inputs.

Aggressively-styled hand-finished aluminium air intakes mounted on the front left and front right side of the dummy fuel tank give the VMAX a muscular profile, and direct an intense flow of air straight into the massive new airbox which is approximately twice the volume of the design on the existing model.

To complement the machine’s more powerful 1679cc V4 engine, a compact new shaft drive system has been designed for the new VMAX. By optimising the ratios of the engine-side reduction gear and the final gear, engineers have designed a smaller-diameter rear gear case. Featuring 29 teeth compared to 33 on the existing model, the slimmer and more compact case measures 188mm.

An 02 sensor (Lambda sensor) detects oxygen levels in the stainless-steel/titanium exhaust system and regulates the fuel supply via the fuel injection system to ensure that emissions are minimized, while a 3-way honeycomb catalyser ensures the VMAX exceeds EU3 regulations.
For reduced weight and a high quality finish, the clutch cover, AC magneto cover and drive shaft cover are all manufactured from lightweight magnesium alloy.

A sophisticated cooling system, which consists of two radiators and an oil cooler keep the temp under control. The two-piece radiator features a curved-type upper section, which allows the engine to be situated closer to the front wheel for idealised mass centralisation. In order to achieve a maximum surface area for highly efficient engine cooling, the lower part of this two-piece radiator is a conventional flat shape whose unobtrusive design allows the massive V4 engine to be seen in all its glory – and at the same time permits the fitment of a fan. And to ensure stable oil temperatures for consistently strong engine performance, the 1679cc engine is equipped with a liquid-type oil cooler.

Mounted on top of the dummy fuel tank is a multi-function Organic Electro-Luminescent OEL instrument panel that displays a wide range of information on its 256x64 dot display. This newly designed OEL panel gives a bright, easy-to-read display and offers an instant response, and its functions include odometer, tripmeter, clock, fuel gauge, temperature gauge, gear position, running fuel consumption, intake air temperature and throttle opening, as well as a stopwatch with a countdown function.

The fact that the styling on the original VMAX has remained largely unchanged for 24-years is a tribute to the immense strength and unique character of its original design. Creating a worthy successor to this iconic motorcycle posed many challenges for Yamaha’s team of designers.

While the original VMAX embodied the spirit of the drag strip the new model has been designed to radiate a feeling of massive internal strength that hints at the awesome power just waiting to be unleashed at any time.

2009 - Yamaha VMAX - Engine Features

Thursday, November 5, 2009

10 Everyday Tips to Boost Brainpower

Posted by cap jj

10 Everyday Tips to Boost Brainpower
"If you want a sharper mind, actively start caring for your brain and acting for its betterment," says Daniel Amen, MD, author of Magnificent Mind at Any Age

1. Break Your Routine

Brush your teeth with your left hand (if you're a righty), jog backward, and pursue anything else that forces you to deviate from your daily patterns. "In so doing, you'll stimulate new parts of your brain, encouraging it to make new connections," says Dr. Amen.

2. Hydrate Your Mind

"Your brain is 80 percent water, and if it's not hydrated, your neurons can't perform properly," says Dr. Amen. Drink eight six-ounce glasses of water a day and avoid excessive alcohol and caffeine. 3.

3. Clock Seven Hours of Shut-Eye

"Science shows that people who sleep for seven hours exhibit significantly more brain activity than those who don't," says Dr. Amen. Lack of sleep inhibits learning, concentration, and memory.

4. Make Your Brain Purr

Achieve a calm, clear, stress-free brain through meditative belly breathing: Inhale slowly, allowing your stomach (not your chest) to rise, and then say the word one as you exhale. Repeat for 10 minutes.

5. Dance, Dance, Dance

"Few activities stimulate as wide a variety of brain systems as dancing does," says Dr. Amen. "Dancing requires everything from coordination and organization to planning and judgment."

6. Limit TV Time

Men who watch TV for more than two hours a day have a significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer's than those who watch less.

7. Join a Reading Group

"Reading is good for your brain only when it involves storing and retrieving information," says Dr. Amen. That's why reading groups are beneficial. "And the social aspect of book groups adds another dynamic that bolsters cognitive functioning."

8. Fight Pain the Smart Way

Men who take ibuprofen are 44 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's than those who do not, according to a recent study. Also beware of acetaminophen, says Dr. Amen. "It disrupts liver function, decreasing the body's production of the antioxidant glutathione, which is important for brain function."

9. Kill the ANTs

"Automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) inflame the areas of the brain responsible for anxiety," says Dr. Amen. They also increase the production of stress hormones, which kill brain cells. Whenever an ANT enters your mind, write it down and devise a plan to correct it.

10. Fire Your Staff

Men who make love at least twice a week are 50 percent less likely to have a heart attack than those who have sex less often, say scientists. This matters because growing evidence supports a simple fact: What's good for the heart is good for the brain. "Sex also releases feel-good chemicals that fight stress," says Dr. Amen.

Monday, June 1, 2009

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love" - Mother Teresa

Posted by cap jj

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of God.
Mother Teresa

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Mother Teresa

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Sunday, May 17, 2009