Should engine make match car make?

[milkovich]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

sbc powered.

Is it me or does that look like Mr. WFO?

[OldUsedParts]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

"Should the engine make match the car make?" - - - for the "best" answer, ask the guy whose name's on the Pink Slip ;)

(yes, Min, that does look like WFO, minus the lemon peel)

[FoFittyFoSS]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

I'm about to ask a stupid question........ Is the SBC in the old motorcycle air cooled? Where is the water pump?

[Freiburger]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

Quarter-mile only, so it didn't have cooling.

[OldUsedParts]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

I would love to see the other side of that bike ???

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

That is the ORIGINAL MR. WFO....EJ Potter sitting atop Widowmaker 1.

No cooling system. Take note of the "exhaust manifold" made of a piece of square tube.

That's an "uncut" Harley frame. Potter was initially scared of cutting up the bike frame because he was under the impression that the sanctity of the frame shouldn't be screwed with. That opinion didn't last long when he found one of the man down bars split in two after a couple of laps.

Brian

[Scott Liggett]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

Where's the balancer? Even the internally balanced small blocks should have one, right?

[malc]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

I reckon that black and white is a very early incarnation of his motorcycle.
I saw E.J. Potter run in the UK, he crashed, the one and only time in his V8 bike career.


Some reading. http://thekneeslider.com/archives/20...chigan-madman/

[OldUsedParts]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

I reckon that black and white is a very early incarnation of his motorcycle.
I saw E.J. Potter run in the UK, he crashed, the one and only time in his V8 bike career.

when you saw him, did he start it on the rear kickstand ??

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

Potter's English wreck was off of the stand.

Only that first iteration of the bike was sans kickstand. EJ built a centrifugal clutch using some tractor parts and a Harley Davidson rear brake drum. When it broke a couple of times, he went for the stand method.

As far as the balancer goes, there is one on the motor in the b/w photo as best I can tell. That was most likely a little stock 265ci mill as that's what he started with and eventually ended up with 500hp alky injected motors.

Brian

[malc]

Re: Should engine make match car make?

when you saw him, did he start it on the rear kickstand ??

Yup, he got it wound up then just leaned forwards, the rest was smoke.

Here´s some more info on Potter in the UK. http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20...Widowmaker.htm