This is a weird question but has had me wondering for awhile.
All the older Harley Engines have names such as the knucklehead, panhead, shovelhead..etc. I was wondering about the nicknames of the newer engines from the Evolution to the present day engines.

I have heard people refer to the Evo as the "blockhead"...
What are the names of the newer engines if they have any?
What have you heard?

 

Twin-Cam = Twinkie.

 

I have a couple of Harley history books that call the Twin Cam a "Fathead". Never caught on apparently.

 

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Do those same books refer to the EVO as a "Blockhead"?
I wonder if some of those names were used internally at H-D.
EVO and Twinkie are common names for them. I've never heard a different term for the Revolution engine.

 

Evo & Twin-cam

 

around here they just call them Evo's and TC's / Twinkies.

 

I think American Iron magazine calls em Blockhead and Fathead. H-D never called them anything until recently. They were called E or F for Knuckleheads and Pans. Whatever alphabetical designator was how H-D called em. Knucklehead & Panhead were enthusiast names. Now H-D uses em.

 

Iron Heads.