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Air cooled V4 AJS
« on: 24.07. 2023 15:23 »
Notice the front brake 😬
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Re: Air cooled V4 AJS
« Reply #1 on: 24.07. 2023 16:36 »
Upgraded on the later V4s GB - along with much else. Sadly, never really a very successful beast - even when subsequently blessed with water cooling and all manner of other improvements. (Mind you, there was some serious competition in those just-pre-war years when supercharging was the new big thing. Somewhere just north of 50bhp I think - not sure how that stacked up against the BMWs and Gileras.)
The Porcupine was the next cunning plan - but then the bansturbators stepped in to outlaw all forms of forced induction  . . . .
Sammy Miller has a phenomenal V4 in the museum, or did when I was there last.
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