It wasn’t that long ago that if you had a 96 cubic inch motor in your Harley you were king of the kids, and you had power to burn off just about anything on the road. Well – hasn’t time changed things!
Who would have thought back then that you could build a reliable, everyday street engine that was 131 cubic inches or 2147cc. The big improvement has come with the new M8 engine, it has been designed to be taken to these types of capacity extremes. In the Twin Cam or earlier days, nobody would have believed it was possible.
Other companies have been building big engines for a few years, but they have – to a certain point – been a race motor with limited warranty and tended to be a bit fragile. But over recent years Harley-Davidson has been gradually increasing their engine capacities to the point where you can now buy a Screamin’ Eagle 131-cube M8 crate engine. The big news is that it’s all very safe and reliable and provided certain parameters are met, it comes with full factory warranty.
But this 2020 Road Glide Special has been built along a different path. The basic bike had a few kilometres showing on the odometer but was still running perfectly. Because it was a Special, it had a 114” M8 engine fitted as standard plus lots of bling to make it a little bit more special – a perfect candidate for hot rodding.
A Stage IV kit containing big bore cylinders and matching pistons, CNC-ported cylinder heads, SE8-515 camshaft, 64mm throttle body and manifold was ordered. To this was added a pair of Street Cannon mufflers, SE Pro Street Tuner and SE Smart Tune Pro Automatic Tuning Module, Heavy Breather Extreme air cleaner, and a set of SE Premium Tapered Quickinstall pushrods with black covers. Gotta get those details right!
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Polishing The Facets
Finessing the sharp edges and making that 124 sing and dance
The Fabulous Flexi Flyer
A genuine time capsule with history oozing from every single unique pore.
Road Raves Living The Life With Doc Robinson
WORDS OF WISDOM “When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a ’69 Sportster.” – Chuck Zito
The End Of The Line
Writing a road test about a bike that is due to disappear from dealers’ floors any minute is a bit weird. Should this be more of a eulogy?
Now It's Time To Head Down Track
What happens when I’m ready to race at an IHRA-sanctioned dragstrip?
RAUCOUS ROCKY
With our own area called the Motorcycle Precinct, bikers were well catered for at this year’s RockyNats
S&S SUPERSTREET
With a Softail Deluxe already dripping in chrome, of course Paul was easily swayed by the offer of a shiny, new S&S SuperStreet two-into-one.
SPORTS STILL ROARING
Blues skies greeted the National Roaring Sporties racers for Round Two at the challenging Morgan Park Raceway near Warwick, Qld.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Even some of the locals are over the yodelling and pedal steel guitars. HOG member and history nerd, Roderick Eime explores another side of Tamworth and the surrounding region.
HAPPY HOGGIES
The drought was well and truly broken with HOG members from all over Australia making it to Rockhampton.
