Engine nicknames?
01-13-2011 | 08:04 PM
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From: Back in Oz M8
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scooter1128
never heard "castlehead"
When the 88" Twin-Cam cam out it was referred to as the "Castlehead" in Australia, never heard it here in the US, probably isn't used back in Oz anymore either.......
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01-14-2011 | 11:38 AM
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From: Oklahoma City
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piasspj
Do those same books refer to the EVO as a "Blockhead"?
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SoonerSoftail
I'll look when I get home but it doesn't ring a bell. Of course by bell isn't what it once was.
I can't find anywhere that Blockhead is mentioned.
01-14-2011 | 11:40 AM
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From: Springfield, Ohio
01-14-2011 | 12:37 PM
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From: Georgia
The Ironhead is a Sportster from 1985 or before. 86 to date is called an Evolution engine.
01-14-2011 | 05:16 PM
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Back in 2000, when I took the factory tour at the York Pa plant, the tour guide said that the twin cam 88 was termed the "big head".
01-14-2011 | 05:28 PM
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
BlockHeads & Twinkies all I've ever heard them refereed to , fathead may have been tossed out at an owner or two maybe .
01-14-2011 | 08:08 PM
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From: Southeast WI
The Evo has been called Blockhead ever since I can remember. I've got a blockhead script pin that I picked up at a swap meet back in about '89. I've never heard a nickname for the twin-cam though.
01-14-2011 | 08:19 PM
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From: Upstate NY
My motor is an Evo and the twin cams are called Twinkie.
01-14-2011 | 10:01 PM
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From: Waukesha, WI
Cant forget about the XA or the Sport Twin with the flat twin. Different is all I'd call it.
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01-14-2011 | 11:06 PM
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From: Little Apple, Iowa, U.S.S.A.
"Twinkie" sounds kinda gay. Let's just call'em Pot-heads and be done with it. Just sayin'...
01-13-2011 | 08:04 PM
