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From: Theo Bekkers on 4 Sep 2007 19:55 Zebee Johnstone wrote: > I'd be bloody surprised as it was a Rolls Royce Merlin. Didn't think > the Yanks were using RR motors in Mustangs. The Mustang was err.. "engine performance deficient" as originally delivered. The engine was junked and they installed RR Merlins in the UK. Theo
From: Jordan on 4 Sep 2007 23:53 > Been done. Years ago - Lucky Kaiser built his V-twin using part of a > Merlin engine in the 80s. > > Zebee But this one is air-cooled, like a proper bike. Nice forged aluminium alloy heads - luvverly. There's something new - looks like 2 seperate brake discs on one side of the front wheel. Only one caliper visible though.
From: Zebee Johnstone on 5 Sep 2007 01:17 In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:53:53 +1000 Jordan <jwprincic(a)otpusnet.com.au> wrote: > >> Been done. Years ago - Lucky Kaiser built his V-twin using part of a >> Merlin engine in the 80s. >> >> Zebee > > But this one is air-cooled, like a proper bike. > Nice forged aluminium alloy heads - luvverly. Doesn't look much like a proper bike compared to Lucky's. Zebee
From: Knobdoodle on 5 Sep 2007 08:19 "Toosmoky" <toosmoky(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:46dd6357$1(a)dnews.tpgi.com.au... > Aido wrote: > >> His V-twin project you mention wasn't as big as this German bike though. >> Luckys V-twin was the front 2 cylinders from the engine out of a P51 >> Mustang WW2 fighterplane > > Actually it was originally from a Mosquito. > I don't think it was a Mosquito either. It was a Merlin but it was from something unglamorous from what I recall of the original story. (a twin engine freighter or somesuch) My eyes aren't real good but the piccy in your link shows either 1935 or 1938 written on the tank and I think that'd predate the Mozzie (and certainly predate the Mustang!) -- Clem
From: Knobdoodle on 5 Sep 2007 08:20
"Zebee Johnstone" <zebeej(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:slrnfdrgoa.jt4.zebeej(a)gmail.com... > In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:24:31 GMT > Aido <cb600shornet(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> His V-twin project you mention wasn't as big as this German bike though. >> Luckys V-twin was the front 2 cylinders from the engine out of a P51 >> Mustang WW2 fighterplane, He ran 2 drive chains to the rear wheel on the > > I'd be bloody surprised as it was a Rolls Royce Merlin. Didn't think > the Yanks were using RR motors in Mustangs. > Sure were! A Mustang without a Merlin is an Apache. -- Clem |