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Our man in the street says it will likely be based on the small block. An 8v 940 in a Bellagio chassis would be great. However I do not believe that is what will see in Milan this fall
1400 LeMans
there's no Guzzi that could run with a 'busa. Now if your point is that the 1400 couldn't be put in a compact package like a spiney, I'm not so sure. Anyway, the LeMans was never a GSXr.
Nor would a 1400 Le Mans ever be a GSXr. The original Le Mans was lighter than the other Guzzis. A 1400 Guzzi would not be light as if it was a good handler nor fast as if it was sporty. Instead it would be a porker in racy looking clothing, like a V7.
What do you think the difference in weight is between the 1200 8V, the 1400 8V, the Daytona 1000, and the Sport 1100 engines ??My money says "not much".
Have no idea. The Sport 1100s weighed a lot more than my `81 CX100, `87 IV Le Mans, I know that. Rode a Daytona 1000 once but not long enough to know it's weight.
"engine weight". we're just talking engines, right?If you take a 485lbs Sport 1100 and stuff a 1400 8V in place of the 1100 4v, what will the weight increase be? "not much".10lbs? 20lbs? Not much.
... Maybe time for a four valve small block to finally be put into production, like that aero engine project?
does anyone know the weight of the Spiney vs Tonti LeMans? Not that it means anything here. I just thought the spiney might weight a little less
Not my cup of tea but something like this might cause Chuck in Indiana to unlock the chains on his money vault. <shrug>
kedAll right, you guys made me do some work...........dry weights`81 CX100 Le Mans 485#`04 V11 Le Mans 498#`03 V11 Naked 487#`93 Daytona 1000 451#`04 MGS-01 423#`04 EV 1100 553#`05 EVT 1100 573#
The Aero engine is a 2-valve engine. It has hemi-heads, instead of the customary heron heads, that's what makes it more powerful. The bike that went into (Lario) originally had 4-valve heads. The Lario engine (heads to be specific) where, unfortunately, not reliable, as they had a nasty habit of dropping valves.
Love my 2v ..... like my 8v. It's a personal thing. I'd also like to see a rebirth of the pushrod bb engine in a sporty Guzzi. And of course I know this will never happen. I found this article a good read. It stung when the writer dissed my lovely 1200 Sport as a plain vanilla bike, along with the Norge and Stelvio, but I enjoyed looking at the pix of the lovely 2v pieces used in the highly modified, never to be seen again pushrod two valve big block. Really sang the praises of the V11 format. Why not? What's not to like?http://www.odd-bike.com/2015/01/millepercento-moto-guzzis-filling-void.html
The four-valve heads introduced on the 1984 V65 Lario soon became notorious for snapping the heads off their valves, causing spectacular engine failures at random. The smaller valves used in the new heads were constructed in two pieces, with their poppets welded to the shafts, creating a weak point where they inevitably began to fail. Additionally these motors used overly strong doubled valve springs which tended to accelerate the valves too fast, especially at the higher revolutions that the new four-valve designed offered. Finally the changes in the cylinder head apparently reduced oil misting to the top end, this being quite a big deal as misting from the crankcases was the secondary means of top-end lubrication on the small block engines. The icing on the shit cake was a solid camshaft that self-destructed due to lack of lubrication, a problem fixed by a recall that installed a hollow cam with revised oil flow. All these factors came together into a perfect storm of mechanical destruction, with the four-valve motors fast earning a reputation for being grenades. It is a reputation that persists to this day, with many owners either significantly reworking their valvetrains to improve their chances, or just parking the pitiful things to gather dust rather than risking an expensive blowup.
http://www.odd-bike.com/2015/01/millepercento-moto-guzzis-filling-void.html
Long gone are the weird V-twin powered oversized enduros that could be coaxed into traversing the globe or running the Dakar: today Guzzi has joined the leagues of BMW knockoffs pandering to middle-aged riders with marketing-driven dreams of globe-conquering go-anywhere adventures in their minds - and hernia-inducing tipovers in the Starbucks parking lot in their reality.
