Twin cooled engines have watercooled cylinder heads. Anything “aircooled” is technically cooled by the oil. That’s why old Porsche 911s have 12 quart oil tanks.

That’s generally how crate engines work, yes. HD needs to do many new things to survive, but they also need to keep normal operations too. Not every single thing they do will be taking them into the future.

“Yeah but my commute is 316 miles”

You’ve just described every crossover on the planet. 

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I think they’ve announced a small streettracker to be built in China, iirc.

I would dip my toe in the 6 series pool for this.  I would regret it but I would do it.  NP for now, check back in 12 months to see if I’ve sold my house to pay for repairs yet.

Now they need to release a 250-300cc bike.  A dual sport that they can sell for sub $6k and that will actually sell around the world.  I believe a move like this could save the company.  And also, I want a Harley again and this would be a kick ass bike....

I took a wrecked STI and transferred everything over to an 03 WRX. The cluster and all the wiring harnesses included. It was a major undertaking but when I was done, the WRX became a real STI. Because they were both Imprezas it swapped over pretty easily. It would be an interesting project to try to swap everything…

Twelve million dollars. They can only use each one for a single take because the sheer amount of testosterone makes them sprout their own chest hair.

Intersting thoughts.  I was thinking of running the gauges  out of the car that the engine came out of but 2 ECUs might be easier than modifying the dash to make it all fit and trying to make it look factory.  I will have to look into that.

It sounds like a fun project. Many projects like that, you end up running 2 ECU’s. One to run the engine and the other to run the cluster and body computers. I don’t know if the ‘05's used Canbus or something older. I’m wondering if the canbus dialect the modern ECU’s use can still drive the gauge clusters on the…

Only considering it because I already have access to the engine and trans.  I think this would be one of the coolest things to put it in.

Price no object, that’s a decent idea. For a frugal person like myself, I’d probably drop in a 3.5 liter J series V6. They can be had with 6 speeds too, are really cheap and bullet proof.

the trick is: watch youtube AT work

I love those wagons. They get shit mileage by todays standards, but they would run forever!

NP for the best TSX body style (except the wagon of similar vintage of course) with 3 pedals.

What exactly are you rebuilding?

Great commercial!  100% leaked on purpose, they will get TONS of coverage for that.

Jesus Christ, 1000 miles is tough on my body in a car. 

“Feel” ain’t good enough anymore, Robb.