Warbird Information Exchange

I don't know if this had been posted before. I did a search and did not find it. This motorcycle is powered by a slice of a merlin. more info is at this link http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~ddped/rrv2.htm

that exposed cam drive belt looks like it might make life real sporty for the unlucky driver of that thing....

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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.

Lucky Kizer, a bush mechanic in Dubbo, NSW. This is about 20 years old and first hit the world in Motorcyclist Magazine in the mid eighties. I still have it in my bike stuff scrapbook.
How much torque? "Bloody Heaps!"
A couple of years later, he showed up in the US on it with a blower on top!!

Canso42

Ah. [b] Jan. 1988 Motorcyclist, pp. 60-61.[/b] If I can locate a friend with a scanner, I'll send the whole article with some more pix.
"...with a sound like multiple shotgun blasts, the motor fires. The noise is astonishing."

Lucky also said of the Merlin....."Some say this engine was the best ever built by man; nothing matches it in performance or reliability."


One detail bugs me. The Merlin was 24 liters. This thing is supposed to be five. That would make the original a 30 liter engine. Guess he's bored and/or stroked it. He IS a machinist.

Doug.