My past catches up with me
If you read this blog or the magazine you may have seen this bike before… the Panhead I built with my buddy Buzz when I lived in Australia. In the few years I had it, it ran strong and fast without any mechanical intervention; I had slipped the engine in to the Paughco frame from a donor bike and then adopted a ‘if it ain’t broke…’ attitude, so never had it apart.
It was a bit of a shock therefore to buy my second Pan here and find it to be relatively gutless in comparison (before the rebuild at least) and now I know why…
The current owner of my old Aussie Pan contacted me for information on its build and by chance had talked to the bloke who’d originally built the engine; my friend Roger also knows the same bloke, Cory, who works part time at Pacific H-D in Gosford.
The engine is a ’55 right side case mated to a ’73 left side Shovel alternator case (this much I knew), but I’ve just found out the bike was running S&S stroker flywheels and oversize barrels, as well as an Andrews cam and flowed heads. Capacity was 86 cubic inches.
That explains it, then!
More of this in print from Greasy Kulture Magazine, the oily rag, here: http://www.greasykulture.com
2012-09-18 15:13:31
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