Just because he could.......

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Just because he could.......

16 Oct 2014 19:32

:silly: :ohmy: :laugh:

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16 Oct 2014 19:37

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His V8 isn't too shabby either! Pure genius with some serious skills! Ed

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16 Oct 2014 19:46

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Seen this at the barber museum in Alabama.was too cool. .alon v with all the other things there.

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16 Oct 2014 21:11

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Wow! That engine really has the look of a WWII era aircraft engine. Really cool! I like the carb setup, looks easier to remove than the stock ones.

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17 Oct 2014 05:17

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really cool stuff, would love to see how the crank was done for one thing. How the hell did he get 4 more rods in there????

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17 Oct 2014 12:05

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These are just insane!

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20 Oct 2014 10:21

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4TheKZ1000 wrote: really cool stuff, would love to see how the crank was done for one thing. How the hell did he get 4 more rods in there????

My guess is he used 4 V shaped rods, four rods for eight cylinders that way.

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20 Oct 2014 10:57

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steell wrote:

4TheKZ1000 wrote: really cool stuff, would love to see how the crank was done for one thing. How the hell did he get 4 more rods in there????

My guess is he used 4 V shaped rods, four rods for eight cylinders that way.

Seems like that would be tough since the V would have to be hinged, like on an aircraft engine.
I think it would have been easier to use a fork rod for one bank, with skinny rod on the other bank.

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20 Oct 2014 13:12

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I believe he used side-by-side rods for the V-8 and hinged aircraft style rods on the V-12. Below is an except from www.motorcyclistonline.com/wild-file-hom...00cc-v-12-motorcycle Ed

A more serious problem was that the liquid-cooled six, though huge, has a more modern and compact crankshaft design than the KZ four, so Millyard could not repeat his V-eight trick of using pairs of side-by-side con-rods. Instead he designed new rods based on radial aircraft engine practice, with the front one of each pair of cylinders using a master rod, to which is attached a smaller secondary rod for the rear cylinder.

"That was the only drawing I did on the whole bike, using cardboard templates," Millyard recalls. "The con-rods were the hardest part of the engine. Everything's so narrow and there's very little bearing area, so I had to use the strongest material I could." Finding the required grade of high-tensile chrome-moly steel proved difficult. "I had to buy five-inch-diameter round bars, then machine a 20mm thick plate out of the center, so 90 percent was wasted. I couldn't cut it with a saw, and it would have taken months on my old milling machine. But luckily my friend Chris Halliday of Pretech (who supplied the bike's brakes) offered to do the rods on his CNC machine."

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20 Oct 2014 17:21

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Interesting. The cylinder blocks appear to be directly opposed from each opther in the photo. So are the rods offset from center, or are the cylinders somehow not directly opposed?

Either way, good trick.

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20 Oct 2014 20:18

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Why doesn't someone email and ask him? Simple... :woohoo:

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