Can a guy get some Evo HELP???
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From: iowa
Yee! I hear ya. Saw em walkin in with a big boxobeer an I pulled out the lawnchairs. I built a tranny under the influence once an made it bout 150 miles before she come apart. Bad news.
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ok, now i understand. the way the first post was worded it sounded like it just started happening. now that i know it was like that from day one, i doubt i could offer much help. kind of weird that the ring end gaps were all close together like that. anyway good luck. i hope to learn something from your trials and tribulations.
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ok, now i understand. the way the first post was worded it sounded like it just started happening. now that i know it was like that from day one, i doubt i could offer much help. kind of weird that the ring end gaps were all close together like that. anyway good luck. i hope to learn something from your trials and tribulations.
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From: Pennslytucky
total seal also makes them gapless. from what i have just read they were mostly developed for stock car racing classes that required a stock motor. i am guessing they would make a bit more power but are not suitable for an engine that you'd expect to get 100,000 + miles from. am i correct?
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total seal also makes them gapless. from what i have just read they were mostly developed for stock car racing classes that required a stock motor. i am guessing they would make a bit more power but are not suitable for an engine that you'd expect to get 100,000 + miles from. am i correct?
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i have never blue printed a HD motor but have big and small block chevy's. i get a lot of satisfaction knowing everything i could have done to make the motor run better without spending too much other than time has been done. it did cost a few bucks to buy the tools needed though. i am thinking if i ever get to build my dream bike i will definitely blue print it. i also learned how to port heads just by hanging around machine shops and watching the pro's do it. that and a lot of reading. if i could build motors for a living i would be as happy as a ***** at a rolex convention.
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i have never blue printed a HD motor but have big and small block chevy's. i get a lot of satisfaction knowing everything i could have done to make the motor run better without spending too much other than time has been done. it did cost a few bucks to buy the tools needed though. i am thinking if i ever get to build my dream bike i will definitely blue print it. i also learned how to port heads just by hanging around machine shops and watching the pro's do it. that and a lot of reading. if i could build motors for a living i would be as happy as a ***** at a rolex convention.
Difference is a motor that the redlines around 7000rpm makining ponies up to 6300 + with much lower vibration levels in the real usable RPM ranges where the average rider lives , verses 5400rpm max and it feels like it's coming apart .
Had a lot of Evo and now Twinkie guys quit riding with me cause they just can't take a shovel showing them the tail light after they spent $30,000 or more on their hotrod and it comes up lacking .
Last edited by TwiZted Biker; Jan 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM.
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From: Pennslytucky
Gets old after a while . Blue printing a HD motor means your going to have build that motor 3 times on the bench and go through 2 sets of gaskets and it adds about 25 hrs labor if you it right .
Difference is a motor a motor the redlines around 7000rpm makining ponies up to 6300 + with much lower vibration levels in the real usable RPM ranges where the average rider lives , verses 5400rpm max and it feels like it's coming apart .
Had a lot of Evo and now Twinkie guys quit riding with me cause they just can't take a shovel showing them the tail light after they spent $30,000 or more on their hotrod and it comes up lacking .
Difference is a motor a motor the redlines around 7000rpm makining ponies up to 6300 + with much lower vibration levels in the real usable RPM ranges where the average rider lives , verses 5400rpm max and it feels like it's coming apart .
Had a lot of Evo and now Twinkie guys quit riding with me cause they just can't take a shovel showing them the tail light after they spent $30,000 or more on their hotrod and it comes up lacking .
i look forward to building a harley motor some day.