Once again, a little ebay cruise turns up a monster, this is a Keith Black 605 cubic inch Aluminum V8 Boss Hoss Motorcycle. After all, if a 502 is fine, why not a 605? Why not, indeed? It also comes with a nitrous kit, ... yep, nitrous. I'm more than a little skeptical of the cited 900hp figure, I would need to see a dyno chart, but Keith Black engines are usually pretty … [Read more...]
Crower Six Stroke engine
Bruce Crower, founder of Crower Cams and Equipment, is now retired but he's still working in his well equipped home workshop. While thinking of ways to improve the old internal combustion engine, he came up with a method to harness the wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine’s power output and also to control its … [Read more...]
Ethanol Diesel Fuel – O2Diesel
TheKneeslider.com - Since we cover diesel motorcycles here, I thought it might be interesting to note this ethanol diesel blend called O2Diesel. I had never heard of this and ran across it yesterday. The benefits cited on their website are: * O2Dieselâ„¢ is a "fill and go" clean diesel technology available for centrally-fueled fleets in large urban areas plagued with … [Read more...]
Up-N-Smoke Engine Project
We've all seen those motivational posters, a photo of some sort and words like "Excellence" or "Courage" underneath, they're meant to get our juices flowing and doing great things. For me, though, these prints, done in the same style would work far better. With captions like "Black Shadow" or "Chief" they focus on the mechanical beauty of vintage motorcycle engines. This … [Read more...]
Paper V Twin Engine
From the same fellow that brought us the Paper V8 comes this Paper V Twin. It's about half the size of a real engine and has what must be about a million self made, cut out and folded pieces. You need a ruler, exacto knife and white glue to construct it, the movement is powered by hand. It looks very cool but you would need a lot of time and patience to put this together. … [Read more...]
Motorcycle engines – don’t cover them up
Motorcycle enthusiasts come in all varieties, what kind are you? If you're like me, you appreciate motorcycles for the design and engineering that takes the same basic idea and creates the incredible diversity of all of the different models, and no part of any motorcycle is more compelling than the engine, that lump of iron, steel or aluminum sitting in there, ... the self … [Read more...]
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