SPEED FX

TWIN CAM MOTOR, MEET FXR FRAME

Alot of paint jobs have been getting out of hand over the past few years. They look like carnival wagons and ’70s drum sets with a bowl of linguine thrown on ’em. Not mine.

I’ve owned this bike for close to 20 years now. It ran the 80-inch motor for the first year I owned it, and then I ran a 96-inch S&S Evo mill in it for a while.

Over the years, I had a lot of fun breaking everything behind the motor on my bike: two transmissions, three belts, two rear wheels, an inner primary, a torque arm, four rear axles, a swingarm, axle adjusters, and one transmission case. I lost count of the motor mounts I wasted riding the piss out of this thing.

After about 15 years of this abuse (it was ridden like a stolen dirt bike), the motor was getting tired. Every seal was leaking. I took the bike off the road. I figured I was going to go over it. It was going to go down to the bare frame and come back from there.

Big-inch Evos and FXRs have a lot of problems. Evo FXR drivelines have a lot of weak links in them. They were great for 35 hp Shovels in 1982 when they came into production, but when you’re making more than 100 ponies, the motor doesn’t want to stay attached to anything. I figured a Twin Cam swap would take care of most of those weak links in the driveline.

Once I knew where I was going with this bike, next up was a front motor mount. The front stock one is another weak link. We took a Big Bear Performance front motor mount and added an additional mounting point to it. Next came the swingarm. I had two other aluminum swingarms I was going with until I saw the piece from Mad Jap Performance. It has the best craftsmanship I’ve seen: five-axis CNC machining, solid billet, precision fitment—every aspect of it was perfect for me.

I called Öhlins to hold up that swingarm with a set of Blackline piggybacks. Since I was on the phone with them, I ordered up a set of their 43 mm fully adjustable fork assemblies too. Beyond that, the crew at SLNYC made the custom fender bracket/fork brace/brake line router. Topping off the front end is a set of ProTaper bars held down by Hard Case Performance risers.

When it came time to dial in that Twin Cam driveline for my bike, I called Ramjet Racing in Arizona, and what we came up with was a 124-inch Twin Cam in S&S cases. Ramjet filled them up with a crank from Darkhorse Crankworks, Carrillo rods, Woods cams, and capped them with a Dave Mackie top end. That’s all I’m telling you about the motor though.

For the styling, I stayed away from the current trends and went back to the classic FXR look. I kept the headlight eyebrow and old taillight and went with Arlen Ness struts from the 1990s with a lower bar/riser setup.

I also wanted to keep the paint away from trends, so I called my homie Nick at Trigger Twist to handle that task. We went with a simple Jaguar British Racing Green, and black two-tone with gray stripe and FXDX Harley-Davidson logo on the tank. The Earnhardt-style 718s on the side covers rep my hometown of Queens, New York, just like the set on my 2014 Dyna. The frame was brought down to bare metal and had a few modifications done. The kickstand cross-member was removed and substituted with a new one to clear the oil pan. A weld-on Eastern Fabrications kickstand was modified and tacked into place. The front motor mount was cut out and replaced with a tubular replacement brace. The regulator has been relocated to the wishbone. The oil tank opening under the seat was closed off, and a custom battery hold-down and a few other mods were done before shipping the frame and a bunch of other components to Arcane Powdercoating in Brooklyn, New York. These guys did great work in a quick turnaround; they knew the FXR show in Sturgis was coming quickly and this bike was debuting out there. HB

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Specifications

GENERAL

OWNER NYC Danny D

SHOP SLNYC

SHOP PHONE 347-642-8047

WEBSITE slnycinc.com

YEAR/MAKE/MODEL

1992/Harley-Davidson/FXR

FABRICATION SLNYC

BUILD TIME One year

ENGINE

YEAR/TYPE/SIZE 2016/Twin Cam/124 ci

BUILDER Ramjet Racing

CASES S&S

CYLINDERS S&S

HEADS H-D/Mackie

ROCKER BOXES S&S

CAMS Woods

THROTTLE BODY S&S G-series carburetor with Thunderjet

EXHAUST 2-into-1 Brawny Built

AIR CLEANER S&S

TRANSMISSION

YEAR/TYPE

2016/H-D

GEARS Jims

CLUTCH Bandit

PRIMARY DRIVE H-D bagger (modified)

FRAME

YEAR/TYPE

1992/H-D/FXR

RAKE/STRETCH Stock/none

SUSPENSION

FRONT END Öhlins 43 mm

LENGTH Stock

TRIPLE TREES Fabricator Kevin

SWINGARM

MJK Performance

SHOCKS Öhlins Blacklines

WHEELS, TIRES, AND BRAKES

FRONT

BUILDER/SIZE H-D/19 in.

TIRE/SIZE Pirelli/19 in.

CALIPERS Brembo

ROTORS Brembo

REAR

BUILDER/SIZE H-D/16 in.

CALIPER Brembo

ROTOR Twin Power

PULLEY Twin Power

FINISH/PAINT

COLORS Black and green by Nick at Trigger Twist

PAINT/GRAPHICS H-D DX

PLATING/POLISHING None

POWDERCOATING Arcane Powdercoating

Accessories

FRONT FENDER H-D (modified)

REAR FENDER H-D FXR

GAS TANK H-D FXR

DASH H-D FXR

GAUGES Auto Meter

HANDLEBARS ProTaper

GRIPS Very cheap

MIRRORS Came with the grips

HAND CONTROLS Brembo

FOOT CONTROLS H-D Dyna

SEAT H-D

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