... I'm medium-certain that to race a repro Manx, about all the organizing bodies (definitely AHRMA) require that the engine be an absolute dead ringer for the original, no matter what sort of post-Space Age craziness may be found inside it.
So please, Anon: What detail(s) hint that this is a modern Manx? A-tiny-bit-bigger fins, perhaps closer pitch, etc.?
Not trying to bust your b___s. I feel woeful ignorant.
It's what it plainly says it is, a McIntosh Manx from NZ... Don't know where they source their engines, most probably Andy Molnar in the UK. It makes no sense racing the originals anymore, much too valuable.
I hadn't even clocked the "McIntosh" logos! The head and barrel have a different appearance to originals; CNC machining, I think, does this by changing the cooling fin profile. The internals're different, too, but I can't see them...!
I'm sure that there was a Manx Norton speed or lap speed record broken not that long ago; think it was at the TT or the MGP. D.
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Looks like a modern engine to me; might well be a 5-speed too... D.
I wonder how many original engines might still be racing. Or how many “replica” engines have been built since they went out of production in 1962.
Original engines still racing: The closer to "zero" you guess, the more likely you're right. Originals are all in museum-collection bikes.
... I'm medium-certain that to race a repro Manx, about all the organizing bodies (definitely AHRMA) require that the engine be an absolute dead ringer for the original, no matter what sort of post-Space Age craziness may be found inside it.
So please, Anon: What detail(s) hint that this is a modern Manx? A-tiny-bit-bigger fins, perhaps closer pitch, etc.?
Not trying to bust your b___s. I feel woeful ignorant.
It's what it plainly says it is, a McIntosh Manx from NZ...
Don't know where they source their engines, most probably Andy Molnar in the UK. It makes no sense racing the originals anymore, much too valuable.
The giveaway is the yellow spark plug wires. The originals were black.
You should drive with the original machines, everything else is a fraud in the matter
I hadn't even clocked the "McIntosh" logos! The head and barrel have a different appearance to originals; CNC machining, I think, does this by changing the cooling fin profile. The internals're different, too, but I can't see them...!
I'm sure that there was a Manx Norton speed or lap speed record broken not that long ago; think it was at the TT or the MGP. D.
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