Shovelhead cone/generator frame question
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Its different visually for starters then in how the timer mounts and the provisions to control it vs a shovel setup. Also oiling to the lifters if at all vs a shovel, oil return arrangement and whether its inside or outside oiler. Most pans were inside oilers but shovels are not. The Pan-shovel designation is for someone that really wishes they had pan heads on it but want the recognition anyway.
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Its different visually for starters then in how the timer mounts and the provisions to control it vs a shovel setup. Also oiling to the lifters if at all vs a shovel, oil return arrangement and whether its inside or outside oiler. Most pans were inside oilers but shovels are not. The Pan-shovel designation is for someone that really wishes they had pan heads on it but want the recognition anyway.
Do Not fall for the old "same bottom end" internet BS...Kinda like a Evo cannot, no way, have a Shovel Bottom End..Not Possible!!
Unless you go with the Shovel Jug mounting and Steel Cylinders..No Longer either to me..Now it is a Drag Racing Engine tho!!
BTW Evo's Do sound at least as good as a Shovel, when equipped with Steel cylinders!!
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I know it was a thing and why but times have changed. Now it's more impressive to have a Panhead so they need to let you know what it once was.
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