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I thought HD enlisted the assistance of Porsche in the design and engineering of the V-Rod engine ?
donnyj08 said:Interesting. Is this the first time they have had a 4 valve head?
HD makes stuff difficult..The new engine is ONLY on the touring models and the heads are all water-cooled and they call it twin-cooling or something like that. The CVO's now come with the 114 engine which also uses liquid cooled heads.
The other non-touring bikes still use the air-cooled 103 engines..
Im not so sure what is difficult. Rushmore touring bikes are just that, heavy touring bikes, no more difficult then any other brands big bikes = big engines. Harleys touring bikes had High Output 103s, while some of their other bigger bikes had plain non high output 103s
Now the touring bikes are getting 107s and they are not in any way all water cooled, in fact nothing much changed in the models that have water cooling and those that do not except if you meant to say all 107s have some form of liquid cooled heads for the valve area, that would be true but that is the design of the new engine, liquid cooled heads.
The non water cooled heads will have oil cooled heads and of course still rely on air as well.
donnyj08 said:Interesting. Is this the first time they have had a 4 valve head?
HD makes stuff difficult..The new engine is ONLY on the touring models and the heads are all water-cooled and they call it twin-cooling or something like that. The CVO's now come with the 114 engine which also uses liquid cooled heads.
The other non-touring bikes still use the air-cooled 103 engines..
Im not so sure what is difficult. Rushmore touring bikes are just that, heavy touring bikes, no more difficult then any other brands big bikes = big engines. Harleys touring bikes had High Output 103s, while some of their other bigger bikes had plain non high output 103s
Now the touring bikes are getting 107s and they are not in any way all water cooled, in fact nothing much changed in the models that have water cooling and those that do not except if you meant to say all 107s have some form of liquid cooled heads for the valve area, that would be true but that is the design of the new engine, liquid cooled heads.
The non water cooled heads will have oil cooled heads and of course still rely on air as well.
Maybe I was not clear, but I did not say the engine is water cooled, just the heads are water/oil cooled (twin cooled) as they were on the 103's.
The GPS just plain sucks on the Harley..even trying to put in a custom route generated with the Harley Route Planner, is no easy task to figure out how to get it to work properly. And, why when the ignition is on does it take a couple of minutes for the Navigation to become available? The new Indian is way quicker and user friendly..Not saying I'm gonna buy an Indian.