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Originally Posted by 3-Wheeler
When Harley developed the Buell-Blast, they put a plastic duct, leading from the front cylinder to the rear, for good air control.
If you had something like that, it would be easy to also add a fan to control cylinder temperature.
Even on a water cooled engine like the Honda VF500, I would seriously consider adding ducts inside the fairing to allow cool air past the crankcase to control temperatures there.
Jim.
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Is the Buell blast not a single cylinder derivative of the HD engine ?
Anyway, it is right the Buell V-twin do use a cowling.
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Originally Posted by MisterInnovation
How viable do you think it would be to weld a box around the cooling fins large enough to fill with coolant and pump the heated liquid to a radiator? Seems simple enough, it's just a box and a steel engine.
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Good idea but the engine is aluminium not steel wich makes it a little trickier to weld.
Also, the heat is in the head rather than the jug (remember Suzuki GSX range are air oil cooled with an extra oil capacity in the head)
Also you said you had a problem with the alternator.
Improving the cooling of the engine top end is not gonna help much the cooling of the crankcase ...
I think extra oil capacity and or oil cooler are a must to fit. You can even thermo manage the engine warm up time with a thermostat)