Ok, time to go outside and play nicely boys......

 

The real difference, is the fact that "motors" run on electricity, while "engines" run on combustion. However, many people interchange the usage of these words: On the rare occasions we encounter one, we refer to a steam locomotive as an engine, the same word that we give to the motive power of an aircraft.Sep 15, 2011

Thought that would upset someone,yours was pasted from Google,mine elsewhere,sorry Tex,I have been misled for many years,pics of motors always seem to show an armature with brushes,electricity...thanks for the knowledge.

 

Fair enough. Now if people will stop calling magazines clips and .45 Colt a .45 Long Colt. Even though ammo manufactures have started putting it on the boxes now as a result of so many people calling it a .45 Long Colt. Bleh.

So why are they called Motorcycles and not Enginecycles? See, it's all the fault of ol Harley and Davidson and all those other guys who created these two wheeled evil machines.

http://www.harley-davidson.com/conte...tory/1900.html

Even though Harley drew up the blueprints for an engine to fit in a bicycle frame in 1901.

So if you ride a Harley Davidson Motorcycle then you are by extension an accomplice to this crime of literary muddlement. And you paid a lot of money to support the cause.

 

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all the old guys that I knew( figure out the past tense for yourself) called them their motors, Jut sayin.

 

Ha ha ha ha yea right

 

I disagree, drop a bolt on 110" cylinder kit and cams in a 96' or 103' TC and see what you get, no head work, no special tools, except the tune.

The M8 gains the most from a simple cam swap.

I guess it depends on what you call additional HP.


Don't get me wrong though, I love me an EVO too.

 

I know a lot of people like to rag on it (the engine that nearly bankrupted Harley Davidson etc.), but I'm fond of the old Shovelheads. They require more maintenance, and they're rough shakers, but they are easy to run if you understand the ignition system and wiring. They look good in a chopper. The AMF Shovel to me represents the heyday of the hardcore hard-partying biker era 1966-1984. Culturally it has a special place in history (no really, don't laugh).

 

Something to be said about the dependability and ease of working on a carb engine. The evo was really the last engine that had the true Harley spirt of ride it and fix it yourself. Once you started having check engine lights and computer management it really changed the idea of ride it and fix it yourself. That is why I'm proud to own my evo. I would love to try a brand new Harley too but I'm sure I would miss all the quirks of my evo. It is just simple fun!

 

I was thinking cheap, as in cam and pipes, but you can bolt on a Revolution kit and get up around 95 hp/lbft pretty easily too.

Hard to beat just a $200 cam swap and two carb jets for more push though.

Griz