dennisgb said:
Thanks for posting a detailed video of your bike. I'm always amazed at the engineering you put into your Norton, not to mention the high quality of your work.
It's also a history lesson as you have used it as a sort of test bed for so many years.
So many things on this bike are of interest to many of us who are building bikes. I love the dash and having the fuel mix gauge tapped off the O2 sensor. You basically can see everything the engine is doing at a glance.
You have two oil coolers on the bike. In discussions here there are many that say you shouldn't put oil cooler(s) on Norton's because the oil stays too cold...that the oil needs to be hot.
Could you comment on that?
On a near standard motor then that is true -an oil cooler is not needed and if it's used it should have a thermostat to avoid keeping the oil below the boiling point of the water that gets in it.
If the motor is a high compression motor or is made larger then an oil cooler would be recommended.
I don't run a thermostat but I do have a big hot tuned motor and only the oil that is going to the head is run through the cooler, so the oil tank temp has been pretty consistently in the 220 to 250F range on the highway.
Last time I took a cold weather trip I stuffed a foam plug in the air inlet.
