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Midknyte
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:16 am: |
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This is a Question... It is not a wish, desire, or reccommendation. I'm just looking to be skooled. Are there, have there ever been, air cooled V4's? Would a V4's [probably/possibly smaller] cylinders generate enough heat that could not be radiated in this configuration? |
12r
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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Ducati Apollo. H-D made a V4 prototype. |
Ted
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:45 am: |
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I think Honda had a V4 cruiser, in the 90's. It would have to be liquid cooled. |
Ted
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:49 am: |
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found it. 1983 VF750 and 1987 VFR750 ,sport type bikes of the day. |
Doughnut
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:53 am: |
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http://www.goldwingracingproject.info/gallery/03/index.asp |
Doughnut
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:55 am: |
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That link should take you to some photos of a V-4 H-D. |
99buellx1
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:02 pm: |
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The key to the question is "AIR COOLED" the H-D "Vega" project was water cooled. |
Doughnut
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:04 pm: |
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Damn. |
Whodom
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:07 pm: |
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I think Harley actually did make an air-cooled V-4, but it wasn't an MC engine. It was for "drone" aircraft used for target practice. |
Bomber
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:19 pm: |
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buncha aircooled aircraft V4s -- and, althought it's not a Vee, Ariel made the SQUARE 4 for a lot of years |
Aydenxb9
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:46 pm: |
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The ill fated modular engine program wasn't called Vega, it was called Nova. I can see how one could get it confused, both related to cr@ppy economy Chevys. |
Chasespeed
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:52 pm: |
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First, lemme say that there is nothing economy about my nova, and it had withstood, almost 8 years of constant abuse.... Anyway, I know my KZ 750, circa '84, was aircooled, though it was an inline 4... Chase |
Starter
| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 07:55 pm: |
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Old man has a square four. The rear cylinders run hot and cause all sorts of problems in the Australian summer. I really couldn't call it air cooled though cause the richness of the tune required makes it more fuel cooled. |
Dale
| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 09:53 pm: |
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You could air oil, mostly oil cool any thing. |
Midknyte
| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 10:47 pm: |
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So there haven't been any production air cooled V4's? |
Jeremyh
| Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 11:17 am: |
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could just get a big arse inter cooler off the local rice grinder scene. |
Gomo
| Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 01:31 pm: |
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Even though it is liquid cooled - how about to V-Max |
Hans
| Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:29 pm: |
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The Zaporozhets had an air cooled V4 engine. http://www.mindspring.com/~corvair/zaz.html Hans |
Craigster
| Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 09:33 pm: |
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It's not air cooled and it's not a V-4, in fact it's not even a four, but what about the Polaris Indy 650 snowmobile?
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Buellkowski
| Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 12:47 am: |
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The Czech-built Tatra uses an air-cooled V8...
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