That's interesting. When I worked in my dad's shop during college, we
worked on the local Highway Patrol cars. They were all Dodges and Plymouths
with 383 and 440 V8's. They had that same problem- under high speed
operation they would pump too much oil up into the heads and this would blow
an engine occasionally.
> He then went on to tell me that the only thing he does not like about the
> Harleys is oil starvation while pursuing a speeder for a fairly long
> period of
> time. He said that the Harleys tend to starve out for oil in the top end
> if
> they are run hard at high speeds beyond what the average owner would run
> the
> bike.
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