Do the exhausts have to be the same length on a turbo? Can't see why you couldn't run the rear header around to the front. Not that I know much about Turbos.
Equal length would be ideal but no different to a normal exhaust on the VT250F, they have the same length, just the rear one is a bit more convoluted in its routing..probably not "tuned" length for a road bike but certainly would have been for the twin turbo race prototype.
Most turbo v-twin dont run equal pipes to the turbo, far from it. But the rear cylinder does loop around to the front. even in a vt250f you would still have to do this.
Probably just pictures of it @Frankster as it was never put into production by Honda, as I mentioned earlier they tried to get type approval in Japan and it was rejected and it was at a time when Honda were copping plenty in Overseas markets (USA mostly) for their bikes being rocketships.. so they pulled the plug and never went into production.... there are pics etc in previous posts and you can search articles but they dont say if it was "only" run from the front or from both cylinders as there isnt any definitive info out there..and the pictures are too hard to determine anything due to the fairings etc... either way.. it would have been a cracking bike.
I think you will find that the pic of the turbo, the shroud that goes from rear to front, would be covering the pipe that runs from rear to front for the turbo. or it could run underneath inside the belly pan.
Couple of points about the 250 vee turbo and the discussion. On a forward rotating vee twin, the front cylinder will always run hotter than the rear - air or water cooled. This is because of the oil spray distribution off the crank. Both front and rear cylinder walls of the rear cylinder will be sprayed off the big-end as it rotates. But because the rear wall of the front cylinder is at a rear-leaning inclination to the crank, it'll be dry. Also the rear cylinder itself masks entry to the front one. remember there is usually only an offset equal to one bigend width.Most of the big capacity, big HP vees have an oil feed to this area - even the air cooled Vincent. The Britten prototype I believe seized in this area a couple of times till someone looked at history. It would have been nice if Honda had put into production what was obviously a better lubrication system designed for the turbo but used it on the bread and butter unblown one. That would have saved countless VT250 engine blowups.
Probably just pictures of it as it was never put into production by Honda. Sorry @Andych I meant other 250cc V-twin turbos from that family e.g. Spada, VTR250 etc. I've never seen a VT250F turbocharged. It never even occurred to me to try it. Some of us discussed Spada Turbos in another thread. https://www.2fiftycc.com/index.php?threads/my-1987-vt250f2h-race-bike.9169/page-2#post-101713
While I am not a massive fan of Cafe racer conversions this Honda 4 is lovely to look at... not sure how it would handle or stop but they have done a very good job on it.
I WISH!!! TZ750 Harris frame on ebay for $60,000. 2 stroke 4 cylinder. TZ750 had a few incarnations. Ebay blurb goes like this..... This 1979 race bike is for sale. TZ750 F Harris Frame - Lock Heed Brakes - 41mm adjustable forks Scitsu tachometer - Magnesium Crowns - 17ins. wheels alloy - hydro formed Peter Campbell exhaust - Electrex World Advance/Retard ignition - Log Booked A$60,000 -
If this were an example of the modern day "cafe" then the guard would be removed in the name of fashion.
There's a great line in the Britten documentary where John Britten says "you can spend just as much time making a lemon". Kiwis, you gotta luv 'em.