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Midknyte
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
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?
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12r
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Ducati Apollo. H-D made a V4 prototype.
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Ted
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
I think Honda had a V4 cruiser, in the 90's. It would have to be liquid cooled.
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Ted
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
found it. 1983 VF750 and 1987 VFR750 ,sport type bikes of the day.
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Doughnut
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
http://www.goldwingracingproject.info/gallery/03/index.asp
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Doughnut
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
That link should take you to some photos of a V-4 H-D.
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99buellx1
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
The key to the question is "AIR COOLED" the H-D "Vega" project was water cooled.
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Doughnut
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Damn.
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Whodom
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
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.
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Bomber
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
buncha aircooled aircraft V4s -- and, althought it's not a Vee, Ariel made the SQUARE 4 for a lot of years
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Aydenxb9
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
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.
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Chasespeed
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
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
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Starter
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 07:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
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.
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Dale
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 09:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
You could air oil, mostly oil cool any thing.
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Midknyte
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 10:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
So there haven't been any production air cooled V4's?
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Jeremyh
Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 11:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
could just get a big arse inter cooler off the local rice grinder scene.
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Gomo
Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 01:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Even though it is liquid cooled - how about to V-Max
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Hans
Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
The Zaporozhets had an air cooled V4 engine.
http://www.mindspring.com/~corvair/zaz.html
Hans
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Craigster
Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 09:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
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:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
The Czech-built Tatra uses an air-cooled V8...
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