The new Vulcan 1700 is a cogent advancement over the old Vulcan 1600 line, starting with a motor said to action 20% added horsepower. The new comminute is absolutely new, not some continued adaptation of the old 1552cc “1600.” Kawi says the agent is based about on the behemothic Vulcan 2000, although it uses a single-overhead-cam architecture with four valves per butt instead of the V2000’s pushrods. A 102mm bore was retained from the V1600, but the achievement was continued from 95mm to 104mm to actualize an alike 1700cc – that’s 103.7 cubic inches for those adverse to the metric system.
The use of a single-pin crankshaft provides the loping complete we’ve appear to apprehend from cruisers, argument out mostly sanitized from stacked, shotgun-style pipes with slash-cut exits. Twin counterbalancers (as against to the distinct antithesis shaft on the Vulcan 1600) annihilate accordance from the 52-degree V-Twin. Power assembly is smoothed out with the accession of Kawasaki’s aboriginal cyberbanking burke valve to the fuel-injection arrangement that adapts to inputs from burke position, load, temperature and air pressure. If the on-board analytic arrangement detects a problem, the ECU can absence to one of three fail-safe modes.
The cruiser genre’s bill is big torque, and the new Vulc purportedly has 108 ft-lbs to trade, its aiguille accession at aloof 2250 rpm. Application crests at 4500 rpm. Kawi says the V17 motor produces 15% added torque than the V1600. Alike added absorbing is a claimed 20% addition in horsepower. Shedding calefaction is a aggregate of accurately machined/contoured butt finning for air cooling and liquid-cooled high cylinders.
