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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 05:02 PM
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Default What's the difference between 1200 engines?
Sportster 1200 Custom XL1200C
Seventy Two XL1200V
Forty Eight XL1200X

Are they not the same engine?
 
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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 05:18 PM
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Uh, how do you mean? Difference from one 1200 to another? Different from 883? Pretty broad open ended question.
 
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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 05:22 PM
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nothing is different. 91-03 solid mount 40-06 rubbermount carbed 07 up is rubbermount fuel injected. All the 1200 rubbermount models engines are the same. but the solid mount 1200s are different.
 
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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 05:25 PM
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i mean why are there a 1200c 1200v 1200x? Or are these just some kind of marketing tactic? What's the difference between the C, V, and X?
 
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Just looks, they are the different XL models below.

XL1200C = custom


XL1200V = seventy two


XL1200X = forty eight
 
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i mean why are there a 1200c 1200v 1200x? Or are these just some kind of marketing tactic? What's the difference between the C, V, and X?
C is a Custom
V is a Seventy-Two
X is a Fourty-Eight

The engines are the same.
 
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Ok thanks i thought they may be some differences in power
 
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