Editing Honda CX500T

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|name            = Honda CX500T

|photo            = 1982-Honda-CX500TC-White-0.jpg

|aka              = Turbo

|production      = 1982

|front_tire      = {{tire|3.50-18}} '82

|final_drive= Shaft `82<ref name="wps_street_2019">{{cite book|title=2019 Western Power Sports Catalog|publisher=[https://www.wps-inc.com/catalogs Western Power Sports]|date=2019}}</ref>

The '''Honda CX500T''' is a [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Honda]] in 1982.

The race for technological supremacy was at its height at the beginning of the Eighties multi-cylinder, multi-valve engines were all the rage. and the latest novelty was the [[turbocharger]]. Costly, and often imperfectly engineered. The turbo proved a flash in the pan. but that didn't prevent the best of the turbo bikes from acting as a superb technological showcase for their makers.

==High-Tech Turbos==

Honda shocked the world when in 1982 they introduced the world to the first production turbo [[motorcycle]] ever seen.  It was also fuel injected and had the most radical [[fairing]] yet to be seen.  It was upgraded to become the [[Honda CX650T|CX650T]] the next year and soon the other manufacturers responded with their own turbo motorcycles such as the [[XN85|Suzuki XN85]] in 1983 and the [[Kawasaki ZX750E|GPz 750 Turbo]] introduced by Kawasaki in 1984.  The CX500T(also known as CX500TC) was based upon the [[Honda CX500]] which was also the platform upon which the Honda Silverwing 500 was built.  There were only a total of approximately 5400 CX500T’s built.  The world's leading manufacturer at the time, [[Honda]] had chosen to turbocharge a relatively small engine, and complicated the problem further by choosing a v-twin.  The CX500 was more of a example of Honda's engineering capabilites, as turbos are more ideally suited to large,  multi-cylinder engines that give a smooth exhaust flow.

 

Honda achieved its aim in a masterly manner, though at the expense of fearful technical complexity. If the original CX500 was plagued by a turbo that came in too sharply, the [[Honda CX650T|CX650T]] that followed was one of the best sports-touring bikes ever built. But it came too late, the turbo craze was over soon, and performance-hungry motorcyclists began turning towards increasingly large naturally aspirated engines. Honda had done its best to make the CX Turbo a success by employing the renowned Italian automotive stylist [[Giovanni Michelotti]], who created a shape that was as practical as it was innovative. The CX's fairing offered a rare level of protection while forming an integral part of the machine.

 

 

 

 

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Image:1982-Honda-CX500TC-White-17.jpg|1982 Honda CX500TC Turbo

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Image:1982-Honda-CX500T-White28-8.jpg|1982 Honda CX500T Turbo

The CX500TC'82 500 Turbo was sold in 1982 in one color scheme: Pearl Altair White with Moonstone Silver Metallic. The body stripes were Day-Glo red, dark gray, and light gray. The "CX500" decal was Day-Glo red. The speedometer had a 85 mph (135 kph) limit. The wheels, hubs, and fork legs were gold color. The engine was a 497cc OHV liquid-cooled turbocharged V-twin linked to a 5-speed transmission and a shaft drive. It was fuelled by CFI fuel injection. The serial number began JH2PC030*CM000017