Black Strips Lasting Longer Than 6 Miles

If you experience black strips lasting longer than six miles seek immediate mechanical attention and replace your RB Racing Turbo. Continued use can cause loss of licenses, premature tire wear, and infuriate your competition. Bonneville Salt Flats...where we prove our products...and have done so for more than 30 years.

Mike Geokan's Bonneville Harley...Since 1991 RB Racing Turbos

Back around 1985 we met Carl Pelletier, Mike Geokan, and Bryan Stock at Bonneville and was asked to Turbo a Harley for them. We blew them off. Around 1991 we agreed to turbo Mike's 104", Carl Pelletier built motor...if they broughtg it down to California. They did. We did.

Can you take your 250 hp Harley race bike and cruise around to thank the people who have helped you set records? It takes a lot of people to build a bike from scratch and to support a race effort.... Painters, welders, fabricators, engine specialists, fellow club members, and even professional dancers like Salina. You never do it alone and if you don't take the time to thank those who helped out it's going to be a cold lonely night with you and your time slip to keep you warm.

Salina moved on long, long, ago...you can't feature dance forever.

Bullett Test Vehicle

Mike was running 199 mph in Bonneville Slush with 22 lbs of boost and 275 horsepower way back in the early 1990's. These days Mike's attention is devoted to his 139" ORCA powered Bullett.  He can't ride it due to health issues.  His friend of 50 years Bryan Stock has taken over the riding chores after we rode it 4 times, two illegal and two down the short course to the 3 mile marker.

In 2017 we bid farewell to the Bullett Project. Mike was finally well enough to go to the Salt and opened up his ugly take on the world. One's true nature always comes to the front sooner or later. What the hell..It was fun with Bryan and the crew and we got Bryan and the Bullett a 200mph record.

Mike can now pout, scowl, and keep getting people to pay for his project while he putters around watching TV, eating out twice a day, and talking about the distant past through rose-colored glasses...saying he does not want to learn anything new.

Mike Geokan's world record holding RB Racing Turbocharged Harley Davidson is featured in an old video.

It still runs with our 4 injector RSR EFI 32 years later.

Turbos are a complete system

A complete systems approach is why our RB Racing turbo kits produce so much power at low boost levels and why they work so well in day to day operation while giving excellent fuel mileage and driveability. More often than not people come to us after spending some astronomical sum of money on their engines only to be disappointed in the result.

When we tell them they have to start over with different pistons, cams, gaskets etc they reply that their motor will be just fine turbocharged at 10.5:1 compression ratio and 15 pounds of boost. Since everyone is an expert we no longer try to advise them differently if they so object...Everyone has to learn sooner or later. We do recommend 8.5:1 if anyone wants to listen...of course this all depends on cams but that is another story all together.

When you purchase an RB Racing turbo system we ask what your intended use is and structure our advice based on the latest information we have. Look at the early RB Racing turbos in the links at the top of the page to see how far we have come in 44+ years.

Here's Wayne on Ray Price's Top Fuel Harley (Oct 03). Ray got a bit banged up and Wayne was tapped for the ride. In August 2004 Wayne retired with back problems...no more spine crushing acceleration. Wayne went on to set a speed record of 258mph on a Hayabusa at Maxton in 2005.

We've been at this for awhile from our early 80's 150hp Shovelheads up through our 360 hp TC and EVO Turbo Kits . We put the first fuel injected Harleys into the 9's, 8's and 7's at the drag strip. The only fuel injected intercooled Harleys to hold a national drag racing championship and Bonneville records come from one place..RB Racing.

Whereas people love to talk about about turbos and, if they have touched one once in their life they become experts, we have been at this long enough to know what should be done and what the difficulties are. It's always amusing the see the poor engineering that comes and goes in this market. It's not about plumbing and band-aids.

Final Point

People who don't do this for a living have all sorts of advice. They specialize in being "persons of authority" even though they have not done the work. They give advice about cams, turbo design etc. and they can't walk the walk. There is more bad, incorrect, crap floating about turbocharging around than there are turbos running.

We've been at it for over 40 years and, since we actually make the stuff, we know even how little we know...which is a lot more than those who don't do the work. We aren't here to correct misconceptions, only to support the art.

Bonneville Test Bed... Bullett

Make no mistake about it, when you deal with the big twins you are dealing as much with art as with science. Everything is hanging out in the open for everyone to look at and it is extremely difficult to blend function with aesthetics, especially in this era when every other bike is a "show bike" with every piece of billet trickery and chromed what-nots glued or bolted to every exterior surface.

We think our new M8 turbos will meet the most demanding needs of any big twin whether it is trailer bound for the next show or caked in wet salt on its final record pass at Bonneville.

We will not compromise functionality however...so don't ask.