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HARLEY-DAVIDSON AND JIMS CREATE A NEW TWIN CAM RACE KIT–Exclusive Component Package offers 120 CID and 125 Horsepower & 121 ft pounds of torque.
MILWAUKEE (January 26, 2004) – The new JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit, available exclusively through Harley-Davidson dealers, is a complete component package designed to serve as a solid foundation for racers seeking big horsepower and displacement. The engine kit is designed to fit Harley-Davidson Dyna and FL models originally powered by the Twin Cam 88 engine. The JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit is NOT a street legal motor.
This 120-cid package, developed by JIMS of Camarillo, Calif., pumps out 125 rear-wheel horsepower at 6200 rpm and 121 ft. lbs. of torque at 3750 rpm on 91 octane pump gasoline. This engine kit was developed as a result of a license Harley-Davidson granted to JIMS for use of some Harley-Davidson Twin Cam intellectual property.
The JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit is based on a 356-T6 aluminum crankcase with enough case material to support a bore size up to 4.800 inches. This is NOT a bored stock case, it is a brand new JIMS crankcase with increased wall thickness for larger bore potential. Being a new crankcase, the kit ships with a JIMS serial number and a MSO. The JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit is delivered with the lower end fully assembled. All other components required to complete the engine are included, including JIMS forged pistons, JIMS 4.125-inch bore cylinders and JIMS cylinder heads with matching stud spacing. The cylinder heads and cams were developed in conjunction with the Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle group. Stock rocker covers are CNC relieved by JIMS to clear special valve springs. Fuel is delivered by a Screamin’ Eagle Pro Super Bore 51mm carburetor and matching intake manifold. A Screamin Eagle Pro Adjustable MAP Ignition System handles timing and spark (engines for ’04 models use the Screamin’ Eagle Pro Ignition Race Tuner Kit).
Experienced technicians can finish the assembly of the JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit in just four to six hours using detailed instructions included with the kit. The kit is offered in black or silver powdercoat, color-matched to stock Harley-Davidson transmissions. It will also be available as uncoated (intended for custom paint or polish). Suggested retail price in the United States is $7,999.95. This price includes ALL the necessary components to build your racing motor including ignition and carburetor. The JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit engine is intended for racing use only. Softail cases and EFI kits are currently not available.
JIMS has also announced a special racing contingency program with AHDRA as an incentive to race with the new JIMS Twin Cam Race Kits. Racers in four classes will receive awards for first or second place finishes. Those classes include: Super Eliminator, Super Sport, Super Gas and Hot Street. Each first place finisher racing with a JIMS 120 Race kit receives a $250 cash award along with a JIMS $250 product certificate. A second place finish merits a $200 JIMS product certificate. Additionally, any national champion in any of the above classes will receive a $2500 cash prize if using the JIMS 120 race kit in the competition (Minimum of 6 races). Just want to go to the track? Any JIMS 120 Race Kit owner who competes in an AHDRA event with the JIMS 120 Race Kit will receive a one time $150 cash rebate and a special competitor certificate. A valid AHDRA time slip with engine verification is all that is required to redeem the rebate.
JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit Specifications
Peak Horsepower125 @ 6200 rpm
Peak Torque121 @ 3750 rpm
Displacement120 cid
Bore x Stroke4.125″ x 4.500″
Compression Ratio10:1
Intake Valve Diameter2.080
Exhaust Valve Diameter1.625
Cam Lift.635
For information on JIMS Twin Cam Race Kit call 805-482-6913, or visit the JIMS website at www.jimsusa.com
THE ALABAMA FILES–Regarding the year 2000, a senior at the University of Alabamawas overheard saying “when the end of the world comes, I hope to be in ” Alabama ”
When asked why, he stated that everythinghappens here 20 years later than the rest of the civilized world.
STURGIS JUSTICE FOR ALL– IN ITS furtherance of the ‘Justice for All’ campaign, the AMA is bringing its Information Center to the Sturgis Rally on August 10th-13th.
The Justice for All movement was triggered by a traffic incident in South Dakota, home of the Sturgis Rally.The perceived injustice of that incident served to focus attention on many sentencing inconsistencies within the US legal system, where poor driving had resulted in death, or serious injury.The AMA campaign serves to raise public awareness over these issues.
Rather than work in isolation, it encourages members to publicize such problems in their home states, providing stickers, flyers and pins to help spread the message.
The campaign has already received the wholehearted support of many riders’ clubs and organizations across the US.
With its Information Center easily accessible at Sturgis, the AMA hopes to reach many more riders who have the potential to assist Justice for All, eventually for the greater good of all who use the roads.
The Information Center will be found at the Sturgis Music Festival, one block off Main Street at the corner of 2nd and Lazelle, Sturgis, South Dakota.
AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST ASSOCIATION
Pickerington, Ohio, USA
Tel: 614 856 1900
Fax: 614 856 1921
E-mail: mailto:ama@ama-cycle.org
http://www.amadirectlink.com
THE STEALTH REPORT–One subject you hear a lot of bikers talk about these days is old school vs. new school. The conversations usually range from paint, to frames, to brakes, to gas tanks and the list goes on. Let’s take a look at what is called old school today and is it really old school and if the “good old days” were really that good.
We all like to look back and think, boy those were the “good old days” and the bikes were a lot better. I am an old schooler and my favorite style bike is probably a bobber, not that I don’t like long choppers, I just seem to relate to the bobber bikes better. You hear the young guns of today talk about their old school bikes with the 4 foot long fuel tanks. I don’t remember any real old school bikes running long tanks. Don’t get me wrong, I like those tanks, they just really are not old school. The long frames with all their rake and stretch are another example of today’s components being called old school, when that is the farthest thing from the truth. Back in the day, the good old days, the front ends were 20+ inches over and the rake very seldom matched the front end. Most of the bikes of that era sat at an angle.
A true story, I knew a guy who had a 650 Yamaha and he extended the forks to about 12 over and didn’t rake anything. The bike sat at such a high angle that the oil pump could not feed the top end, you know the rest of the story!
The technology of today has made things a lot safer on bikes than back in the good old days. Welding technology has improved to state-of-the-art. Case in point, back in the late ’60s to mid ’70s you would see bikes running wicked looking Z-bars. All of a sudden they disappeared. It was rumored that a couple of sets of Z-bars came apart in the rider’s hands as they were riding, not a good feeling. This was said to be due to bad welds. Now today you see people running Z-bars again and they are available again from many sources. Do you think those welds have improved? Sure they have!
Some braking systems from back in the good old days were suspect at best. Sometimes with some systems you needed to make sure you had new heels on your engineer boots just in case you had to dig into the pavement. Today’s braking systems, factory and aftermarket, are also state-of-the-art. They will stop you on a dime. Another area that things have really improved in is lighting. Some lighting systems back in the good old days were dim to say the least. Today we have the power of halogen lights. They will light up a field. You know how they light up the road!
Tires are another area of improvement, the tires of today are superior to the tires of yesterday. They make our bikes handle better and they last a lot longer. Tire choices are endless today, back in the OLD days you had two or three choices at the most. Paint and painting techniques have improved along with all painting equipment and material. I have always been a flame freak and the flames of today are killer! Back when I was a kid coming up and even when I first got into bikes everyone wanted “high gloss” look but sometimes due to a lack of money we settled for the flat primered look. Nowadays the flat “STEALTH” black look is in and it is one my favorite looks on a bike. I guess in a way the more things change, the more they stay the same!
I know what you are thinking, that if I am an old schooler then why I am knocking the good old days? Well I am not, I just think sometimes we imagine the good old days being better than they really were. No I don’t like everything new, like some of the billet stuff. Aluminum is supposed to make things lighter but not when you hang it on bikes in five pound blocks! One thing about the good old days is that we all have our memories and that is the best part. Our memories of friends and runs and our bikes and bike shows and rallies and our loved ones. That’s what makes the good old days, good. Consider, maybe “these” are the good old days?
So maybe today we should have a new tag for all the young guns out there building bikes, “New Old Schoolers”? They are still building bobbers and choppers, it’s just that they have a lot better components and equipment to pick from. One thing they have that is old school, though, is that they all have a burning desire and love in their soul for bike building and that will never change no matter what school you are from!
One thing I like better today than back in “the good old days” is Bikernet. Now, you have got to agree that’s an improvement!So keep on choppin, bobbin? and remember one day these will be the “good old days”!
Time to burn some pavement!
–STEALTHMAN
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