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Offline 70CB750

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Something different
« on: November 13, 2014, 10:31:11 AM »
A chopper, it looks bit dangerous to me, more for show, less for riding, but the guys used two cylinders from a diesel engine and rigged up the rest.
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Re: Something different
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2014, 10:32:35 AM »
The diesel engine was V8, looking like this:

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Re: Something different
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2014, 10:33:54 AM »
And the engine was used in Tatra 815:




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Offline simon#42

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Re: Something different
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2014, 02:58:41 PM »
A chopper, it looks bit dangerous to me, more for show, less for riding, but the guys used two cylinders from a diesel engine and rigged up the rest.

thats no diesel cb , it has at least one spark plug and a couple of coils .

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Re: Something different
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2014, 04:57:23 AM »
A chopper, it looks bit dangerous to me, more for show, less for riding, but the guys used two cylinders from a diesel engine and rigged up the rest.

thats no diesel cb , it has at least one spark plug and a couple of coils .

That's the whole point.  He used parts of diesel engine to build a gas engine.
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Re: Something different
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2014, 11:34:18 AM »
 You don't have to have a point to have a point. I saw one with jugs off a pratt and whitney radial too. I thought of that years ago. Just no talent or money to pull it off.
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Re: Something different
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2014, 12:28:01 PM »
dangerous????  nothing unsafe about that open chain.    My other question would be why?