Not a Harley Anymore
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From: waldorf,maryland
I myself stand behind what i said and that to me if you take the heart of the harley which is that motor completely off that bike and replace it with something different from harley then in my opinion its no longer a true harley.
Road Warrior
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Houston, Texas
I was at the bank today and i saw this guy had on a trailer a road king.I noticed the motor on the Road King looked very different so i asked the guy what was his horses and torque? He said," 150 horsespower and 140 something torque",wow.
He said that he got the motor from some place down in north carolina.Soi i got to thinking and thus i wanted to put this on the forum and ask when is a harley no longer a harley anymore to some of you in cases like this were the motor is completely replaced?
He said that he got the motor from some place down in north carolina.Soi i got to thinking and thus i wanted to put this on the forum and ask when is a harley no longer a harley anymore to some of you in cases like this were the motor is completely replaced?
Ultimate HDF Member
Joined: Aug 2008
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From: eastern oklahoma
this sounds too much like when i was driving through muskogee on a four lane boulevard in my corvette. a friggin toyota corolla pulled up next to me, started teasing, thinking he could get me to romp on the LS2 motor. he romped on his little hong kong piece of crap, and left me in his dust. i got two words to say about that. "SO?" my vette will devour vipers with all the lingenfelter stuff i've done to it. but to get teased into rompin on my vette for a corolla, nah, thanks anyway. as far as your harley, if some kid on a 600 rice grinder wants to, he can eat most big twins. "SO?"
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Georgia Mountains
You can only get so much out of an air cooled, 45* V-twin, pushrod, 96CI engine suffocated by EPA regs.
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Florence, MT (Bitterroot Valley)
Once a Harley, always a Harley.... Doesn't matter if it's got an S&S motor, or any other kind of motor, maybe a Baker Trans...come on here, if it started out as a Harley, then it's a stinkin' Harley... No real math to do on this one.
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Wisconsin
Like I said earlier, what is on the title is what it is. My only real example is an old shovel I worked on over the years. Everything on the bike was changed out at some point except the frame. The engine had STD cases, S&S heads, aftermarket cylinders and rocker boxes, all the internals were aftermarket, Rowe, Manley, etc. The suspension, brakes, everything else was aftermarket. The only original HD item was the frame, but when sold, the title said "Harley", it's still a Harley until the paper says otherwise, easy enough to figure out. Sure, you may feel it's no longer a Harley, but the paper rules.
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From: NC / SC between the Mtns and the Ocean
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