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personally I could not live with the way that God awful seat fits the tank! And the style of back end
The exhaust system is pointless etc etc
The finish is superb and a very interesting bike
You old fart stick in the mud just bite your tongues, SNIP... also advise don't attempt it unless a lugwig, Schmidt, Comstock, Canaga Jves, hobot sort of resources.
George mezzilini used to do them years ago ,I’m curious about the “D” shaped “single squish” combustion chamber. Something I never heard of.
If anyone has any info about that I would like to know how that would work on a Norton..
Pete
Well I seem to remember it being a 4 valve head with a central plug and one either side!!I would be curious to see the Ducati 3 plug head .... changing 2 of the 4 plugs on ST3s can be a pain , so I now use iridium , where would the third plug be located ? interesting experiment ....
The single squish, or D shape that he shows is different to the more common bath tub, which is (more or less) symmetrical.
I am only guessing here, but I image the D shape suffers less from the possibility of valve shrouding, it may allow a better flame path, but more so, I imagime it must induce more swirl into the combustion chamber.
Well I seem to remember it being a 4 valve head with a central plug and one either side!!
But i'm starting to doubt my memory now!
I think he said it gave no advantage so he wasn't pursuing it
In the vid, he mentioned "aluminue" several times. The part he was talking about was put together of multiple small pieces made to look like one. WTF is "aluminue"?
BTW, Hobot, those "Z plates" were just flat plate cut to profile and sandblasted for a false relief. No actual factory Z plates were harmed. (Unlike the SS clone's hollowed shells of their former glorious selves)