For the past few years I have been in serious withdrawal for an old shovel head, a shovelhead is what I grew up on. So I am putting this question out there to see if I can snag some pictures of them and a question. Does anyone out there have one or have seen one in person, pictures too? If so what is your experience with one?

The comments so far that I have gotten in person are, "why would you do that to a shovelhead"? Well, its rather a simple reply that I give to anyone who asks that question. I will be 60 next year and I have two bad hips, two bad knees. I will have a 2nd bike and it will be a shovelhead.

I plan on getting everything I need over this summer, a build project this coming winter and to put it on the road by next summer. I found a beautiful shovelhead, it has most of what I would do to it, already done. The only thing is it is sitting on a hardtail frame.

I am pretty sure I want it and I will even try to go with it "as is" but if my old azz body can't hang then I'm going to have to do something about it and that's to put it on a softail frame.

Pictures and personal experience will be greatly appreciated.

 

If I remember correctly it will bolt into an Evo frame.....

 

Thanks for your time and your reply hspring03!

 

I've seen it done about 20 years ago on a buddy's bike. It wasn't that hard because if it was, he wouldn't have done it at all.

 

Yes, it will fit nicely. I think there is a member here that posted his a while back but I couldn't find the pics.

 

it will fit in an 84 and later EVO frame, EVO motor is taller, Shovel motor will fit in place of an Evo, but not the other way around. Do you have pics of the Shovel as it sits now?

 

I don't know how to get the pictures from his facebook page to hear. Google dog house customs in Kewanee Illinois and it's the flat black shovel in his pictures. If that don't work, let me know and I will try something else. New fresh rebuild, S&S flywheels, 88, and a new tranny 4" over on front tubes.

I probably would do some chrome, paint and seat for my old bones and loose the ammo box and maybe even a set of WWW tires..

 

Hi I'm kinda a nube to this I have a delkron cased 80" shovelhead motor and I want to put it into an early aftermarket softail frame. would I have to remove the cylinders to do this?
thanks

 

no, it will slide right in.