• The two-stroke power valve system is an improvement to a conventional two-stroke engine that gives a high power output over a wider RPM range. A stroke...
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    series from Yamaha to receive the 'YPVS' Yamaha Power Valve System. A different version of this motor with no YPVS was also used in the Yamaha Banshee 350...
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    natural replacement for the popular RD 250/Yamaha RD350LC series of the 1980s. It has the Yamaha Power Valve System 'YPVS' which raises and lowers the exhaust...
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    generation TZR250 (this same engine also powered the R1-Z). This engine featured the 'YPVS' Yamaha Power Valve System, CDI ignition and digital spark advance...
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    with a self-diagnosis system and digital speed readout. The exhaust used Yamaha's Exhaust Ultimate Power Valve (EXUP) system, which controlled exhaust...
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    Linked Yamaha YPVS exhaust power valves are controlled by a single electronic unit and servo motor and are designed to give a broader power band. The...
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    Yamaha Power Valve System (YPVS). The first model series (TZ 250 A) of the water-cooled twin with contactless thyristor magneto ignition had a power output...
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    Deltabox frame introduced three years earlier on the 1WG FZR400. The four-valve Yamaha FZR600 engine was slanted forward in the frame. This was the basis of...
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    making five-valve Genesis engines for several years, Yamaha has since reverted to the cheaper four-valve design. Examples of the five-valve engines are...
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    butterfly valves. The V-Boost system adds 10 percent to the top power rating of the base engine. In 2005, at the 39th Tokyo Motor Show, Yamaha displayed...
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    In 1997 Yamaha introduced the Aerox to the European market. It came in two models, the 2-Stroke 50 cc (Internally known as the YQ50) powered by the Minarelli...
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    power dilemma by borrowing superbike technology and giving the YZ a five-valve head, liquid cooling and a 12.5-1 compression ratio. In 1997, Yamaha rocked...
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    The Yamaha YZR500 was a 500 cc Grand Prix racing motorcycle made by Yamaha from 1973 through 2002. It achieved significant acclaim, especially during the...
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  • with the Derbi. It uses the Yamaha Yamaha Power Valve System, a two-stroke power valve system, which consists of a rotary valve located in the exhaust port...
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    bore and stroke of its predecessor, the Yamaha RD350LC. Yamaha debuted their breakthrough YPVS power valve system that revolutionized the two-stroke engine...
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    the engine. Yamaha was the first to develop such a system, called the Exhaust Ultimate Power Valve (EXUP). It first appeared on the Yamaha FZR EXUP and...
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    air-cooled, overhead valve V-twin engine but sportbike or naked bike style frame and suspension. The engine is derived from the Yamaha Warrior XV1700 and...
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    model its commonly used name was Yamaha's four-stroke power valve system EXUP valve, a servo-motor-driven exhaust valve. This allowed large bore exhaust...
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    short-stroke 97cc Yamaha RS100DX produced from 1977. This was an RS100 (itself a 1976 improvement upon the design of the original reed-valved 96cc RS100 that...
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    several reasons, perhaps the most radical being the 5-valve cylinder head. This became something of a Yamaha trademark. The FZ750 would be the first bike in...
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    is the first Yamaha cruiser motorcycle to be equipped with the compact Exhaust Ultimate Power Valve (EXUP) four-stroke power valve system previously only...
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    The Yamaha YZR-M1 is an inline-four motorcycle specifically developed by Yamaha Motor Company to race in the current MotoGP series. It succeeded the 500 cc...
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    the US but was available in neighboring Canada. Yamaha debuted their breakthrough YPVS power valve system that revolutionized the two-stroke engine in the...
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    automotive manufacturers to use VVT systems. Two-stroke engines use a power valve system to get similar results to VVT. The valves within an internal combustion...
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    kits to give more power to the engine. The heavily finned, air-cooled Blaster engine has roots from a water-cooled machine (Yamaha DT200), as evidenced...
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    The Yamaha YZF-R15 is a single-cylinder sport bike made by Yamaha Motor Company in 2008. In September 2011, the second iteration, called v2.0, was released...
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    complemented with "Variable Valve Actuation" system. In September 2023, the 155 cc model of the T-150 received a minor redesign. Yamaha Exciter 150 (called in...
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    The Yamaha YZ250 is a two-stroke motocross race bike made by Yamaha. The model was launched in 1974, and has been regularly updated and is still in production...
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    V.S. power valved (electronically operated power valve system while motocross bikes are equipped with mechanically operated power valve system),flat...
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    counterparts despite their higher power rating and a lower curb weight. Yamaha designed the engine for performance; the valve angle was a relatively wide 50 degrees...
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