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A motorcycle engine is an engine that powers a motorcycle. Subjects covered include tool requirements, engine removal and teardown, inspection, parts, machine work and cleanup, final engine assembly, and startup. There are lots of free articles on his website and these prompted me to buy his book many years ago. For quite a while now, if you got the urge to rebuild a car, all you had to do is pick up a catalog from any one of a lot of companies, choose the engine you want, displacement, horsepower, mild or wild and with the stroke of a check have a completely rebuilt, modified and guaranteed engine sitting in your driveway a few days later.
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