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Building: Hatred of Loughborough's Speed Humps
posted on 6/1/17 at 05:01 PM
I guess the increased number of wheels (over the bike) puts the engine into something probably more suited to it.
Ultimate application for the power unit would be a MF35 or other small chassis.
Something different is always good to see but I suspect this would be a lot of noise with little go. Harley engines are archaic lumps but at least
some character shines through in a bike or even possibly a 3 wheeler.
In a car like this its difficult to see the appeal (unless your partially deaf)
It reminds my of years long gone when in the search for performance we fitted an open exhaust to 850cc mini.
The traffic lights changed to green, the engine roared, slip the clutch and red line it in first, up through the gears, once ,twice, into fourth, the
sound was awesome the g force less so, a glance at the speedo and we touched 40
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Well I for one like it, but then again I've got a soft spot for harleys as ive owned and tuned a few in my time, as others have said they are an
ancient design blah blah blah, but what the engines do make is bundles of torque at low rpm, it's quite easy to build a 125/125 bhp/torque
engine, nothing great but enough to get you along ok in a lightweight 7 type car.
As for the handling, harleys werent always sleds, back in the times of the translantic races of the 70's a certain cal raybourn came over from
the states on his " crappy old pushrod harley" and prompty won 3 out of 6 races, the pi$$ taking soon stopped.
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Building: Xflow MK "book" chassis + mods. Built
posted on 7/1/17 at 11:18 AM
quote:Originally posted by 02GF74
then you should like this 4x more
Reminds me of John Bolster's "Bloody Mary", which also used 4 x m/cycle engines. IIRC it was a beast to handle, as will this Harley
device (look more closely at that chassis!).
Work-in-Progress: Changed to Zetec + T9. Still trying!!
