Diesel Twin Test Run
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:40 pm
Picked up my new diesel engine for my current build the other day. I'm building a diesel-electric hybrid cruiser motorcycle.
Well, the engine is new to me - it has been slightly used - only one year old. Dog-gone thing seems to run like a champ - fires up instantly. Loud as hell - and I mean the engine, not the exhaust - darn thing clicks and clangs and knocks and all the things that diesels do - so cool!
Anyway, here is a link to four pictures of it and a video of a one-minute test run. At low idle this thing shakes like there's no tomorrow - my mirrors will be shaking way more than any Harley!
http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj31 ... est%20Run/
The engine is an Italian-made Lombardini. 851cc air-cooled parallel twin. 19 hp and about the same torque as my 650 V Star. Now all I have to do is figure out how to fit it into the frame I am building......
Well, the engine is new to me - it has been slightly used - only one year old. Dog-gone thing seems to run like a champ - fires up instantly. Loud as hell - and I mean the engine, not the exhaust - darn thing clicks and clangs and knocks and all the things that diesels do - so cool!
Anyway, here is a link to four pictures of it and a video of a one-minute test run. At low idle this thing shakes like there's no tomorrow - my mirrors will be shaking way more than any Harley!
http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj31 ... est%20Run/
The engine is an Italian-made Lombardini. 851cc air-cooled parallel twin. 19 hp and about the same torque as my 650 V Star. Now all I have to do is figure out how to fit it into the frame I am building......