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Author Message   Gonen60 Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 04:04 pm:        Photoshopped?...Yes. Pretty cool all the same...Radiator and cooling fans under seat !!! Someone should figure out how to do this, and start offering them. Like Buell did With HD engines and his home made frames back in the day... lituplighters.com   Spiderman Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 04:23 pm:        well if you are willing to front the money for a motor and XB to chop apart I am willing to Build it.   Gonen60 Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 06:32 pm:        that would be a fun project for sure   Tedk Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:05 pm:        That's what I'm talkin' about!!!   Buckinfubba Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:45 am:        only one lil problem...where ya sticking the water at   Tedk Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 09:36 am:        under the seat...   Davegess Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 10:10 am:        Sorry guys this only works if the bike gets 10% bigger and 20% heavier. Dave   Newfie_buell Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 11:23 am:        Nice thought but 10% bigger and 20%heavier would sort of defeat the whole XB thing.   Glitch Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 11:29 am:        Sorry guys this only works in PhotoShop!   Gonen60 Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 12:02 pm:        FROM ANOTHER BOARD... I've read varying figures on how much heavier the V-Rod engine is than a standard XB engine. one post said the engine weights were almost equal, but this didn't take into account the cooling system. Does anyone have hard data on this? since the XB frame is already set up for rubber-mounting the engine, the balance shaft(s) and gearing could be left out of the V-Rod engine for a substantial weight reduction. You could also leave off the fins on the cylinder heads for a couple of pounds. I'd bet a good engineering team (like Buell's) could get the V-Rod powerplant close, if not equal in weight to the air-cooled XB engines.   Glitch Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 12:05 pm:        The fit with the XB engine is a tight one. I think the V-Rod Engine even without the cooling system, is physically larger...   Mikej Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 12:24 pm:        Just rotate the V-Rod engine farther forward to clear the frame and then extend the forks to recover the ground clearances. It's simple when you think about it.   Jim_m Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 01:35 pm:        screw the VRod engine, go with a streetable, sportier VR1000 engine, if you're going to go the h2o route. edited by jim_m on September 11, 2003   Glitch Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 02:18 pm:        I'm with Jim_m!

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