Worth It?
ABM's Rebuilt S&S 111:
The Shakedown Cruise..
10-to-1 forged pistons. Massive 640 lift S&S cam. Tolerances and clearances taken to a level just this side of blueprint territory.. We hit the open road in 80 degree temps at dawn yesterday for the first run, keeping the engine under constant load. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, then 3rd, 2nd, and 3rd, 4th, for the first 20 miles, employing the same technique during the second twenty in the higher gears, 3rd thru 6th. Dino juice, drag specialties 20-w50. No synthetic for at least 1,000 mi, maybe more. It's not the way hd does it, but this ain't an hd, and ABM likes to be different.
Even on Sunday morning, 8 lane traffic builds quickly in a city of 1.5 million. We brought her back to my garage, put her up on the lift, waited ten minutes, and drained the aluminum bit choked oil, and replaced the filter. Everything looked great. We'll try to roll up 200 miles this morning before it gets too hot for a new engine. This summer, that will be about ten am.
Worth it?
Quit askin' an' I'll tell ya.. The short answer is "hell yeah". Through waiting 3 months for the heads, and having to use language to get them that my mama would slap me down for, finally threatening to call the sheriff's office, and getting them back 14 days shy of this year's Sturgis run, through finally getting the cylinders, even though they weren't my original ones, and don't quite match the heads, it's been hell. (We figure the dude farmed mine out and someone screwed them up.) Through 3 days of finishing off the honing process, pounding the bottom end into shape with clearances that would send some wrenches into a coma, cross hatching the cylinders in 97 degree air, pulling out the old engine, replacing it with "the beef", then adding three fresh sets of brake pads, steel braided all black clutch, throttle, and brake lines, and new rubber, we're good to go. "What's in my wallet..?" Not much. Good thing we like to cook our own meals.
Even though we haven't spanked the little pup yet, she shows every sign of being the smoothest, most powerful engine we've ever run, including an S&S 124 we ran for a year. ABM's thanks to Scary Larry, and his trusty side kick Butch, for without them, we'd be screwed.
Let's ride!
The Shakedown Cruise..
10-to-1 forged pistons. Massive 640 lift S&S cam. Tolerances and clearances taken to a level just this side of blueprint territory.. We hit the open road in 80 degree temps at dawn yesterday for the first run, keeping the engine under constant load. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, then 3rd, 2nd, and 3rd, 4th, for the first 20 miles, employing the same technique during the second twenty in the higher gears, 3rd thru 6th. Dino juice, drag specialties 20-w50. No synthetic for at least 1,000 mi, maybe more. It's not the way hd does it, but this ain't an hd, and ABM likes to be different.
Even on Sunday morning, 8 lane traffic builds quickly in a city of 1.5 million. We brought her back to my garage, put her up on the lift, waited ten minutes, and drained the aluminum bit choked oil, and replaced the filter. Everything looked great. We'll try to roll up 200 miles this morning before it gets too hot for a new engine. This summer, that will be about ten am.
Worth it?
Quit askin' an' I'll tell ya.. The short answer is "hell yeah". Through waiting 3 months for the heads, and having to use language to get them that my mama would slap me down for, finally threatening to call the sheriff's office, and getting them back 14 days shy of this year's Sturgis run, through finally getting the cylinders, even though they weren't my original ones, and don't quite match the heads, it's been hell. (We figure the dude farmed mine out and someone screwed them up.) Through 3 days of finishing off the honing process, pounding the bottom end into shape with clearances that would send some wrenches into a coma, cross hatching the cylinders in 97 degree air, pulling out the old engine, replacing it with "the beef", then adding three fresh sets of brake pads, steel braided all black clutch, throttle, and brake lines, and new rubber, we're good to go. "What's in my wallet..?" Not much. Good thing we like to cook our own meals.
Even though we haven't spanked the little pup yet, she shows every sign of being the smoothest, most powerful engine we've ever run, including an S&S 124 we ran for a year. ABM's thanks to Scary Larry, and his trusty side kick Butch, for without them, we'd be screwed.
Let's ride!
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