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2/17/13, 10:00 AM   #18
Re: Shaft drive bike motors
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Originally Posted by badcoupe View Post
If you wanted it to run and be fast it def wouldn't be a junk harley motor! I always thought a v-twin would be cool in a tq I believe hankins tried it a long time iirc. 4 cylinders are very hard to beat for the overall power and smoothness. I kinda wondered about a sled or jetski motor that doesn't have a transmission to eliminate, but the cc would probably be too much.
Terry Farrar tried a Harley in a TQ in California back in the mid-eighties; it had one Hilborn stack sticking straight forward and was so loud it hurt your ears.
If I remember right, one of the biggest problems was that it kept breaking the frame...