How I made a motorcycle from an old Black and White photo - PART 2 // Paul Brodie's Shop 

Thanks Fred!

Thank you Joe!

@@paulbrodie I have alot of respect for you Paul brodie 💯 🙏 💪 😤

Indeed! This is a masterpiece!!!!!

@@darkoflight4938 Thank you!

Thank you. Your comment is much appreciated!

@@paulbrodie I have alot of respect for you 💯 and Allen Millyard 💯 you both build Master Pices in Motorcycle

@@domenicomonteleone3055 Thank you.

@@paulbrodie you are very welcome 🙏

I would pay good money to be a fly on the wall while Paul and Allen had a chat. Although, I’m pretty sure that much intelligence in one room has been banned nowadays.

Thanks Christian. We appreciate you watching and commenting!

Arnold, thank you very much!

I have that DVD! Another great story :)

@@paulbrodie There are some great documentaries on You-Tube about him as well. 🙂

Thank you very much.

@@paulbrodie I shared it to my Facebook news feed too, so maybe you'll gain some subscribers too. One friend was already in the midst of watching it from before.

@@lunkydog Appreciated :)

Thank you Peter.

Chuck, thanks for your comments. John Britten is one of my heroes :)

Thank you!

@@paulbrodie You're Welcome! After seeing your videos I can finally stop complaining to myself about the tools and parts I don't have, and start using the tools and parts I do have to get the results I'd like to get.

@@renegade2556 Good comment!

Thank you David.

Thanks Jeff.

Thank you Michael!

Thanks Vic. Very nice comments. Much appreciated!

Thanks Brian!

Thank you Stuart. It wasn't really scrap metal, I paid full price at the metal store..

Rex, thanks for watching and commenting.

Yes, good comments. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Larry. Good comments!

Thank you MrDerbee.

Thank you Jon.

Thanks for watching and commenting.

Thanks for hanging out in my shop.

Made it home and you didn’t disappoint, Paul. Thanks for sharing this process, it’s a masterpiece. And you look like a regular guy but there’s pure genius in you

William, we both thank you.

Thanks for watching.

Thank you.

Thanks 👍

Juan, thanks for your comments. I appreciate them.

Hello Graeme from Down Under. Thanks for watching!

Kevin, very nice compliments.. Thank you very much!

Thank you Carl. Very nice comments! We will do more Excelsior.

@@paulbrodie wooohooo!!!

That you John. That was a good day! That's when we found out the oil pump was spinning backwards.

@@paulbrodie bummer, at least you got it figured out. How long did it take from when you began and got the first one running

@@johnnym1320 A little more than two years.

We will do some episodes on Ruby Racer, my Excelsior race bike. Thanks for watching!

I agree 😉

Thank you Lee. Yes, I have my own way of solving problems; I have no formal engineering background. Self taught.

Thanks David. We will fir up an Excelsior soon.

Thank you very much!

Thank you Omid.

Thanks Gordon. Yes, there were a few problems to solve!

Thank you. And keep up your very interesting projects too.

Thank you Much.

Thanks Sarkis. Bondo really is a great material with a Lot of uses!

Thanks Neil.

Believe it or not Porsche is who has been doing Harley's engineering work designing engine's for them since the mid 70's, some things like the finalizing of the ports and combustion chambers have been done by Jerry Branch at Branch Flowmetrics but Porsche has been the principal designer. In the mid 70's when AMF owned them Harley contracted Porsche to design a radical new engine for them called the Nova, when a new CEO took over AMF he canceled the project which was a real shame because a 120 HP production motorcycle in the late 70's would have set the world on fire and everyone else would have been playing catch up, but it was from the ashes of that canceled project that the Evo engine came from that was introduced in 1984 and basically saved the company, after that both the Twin Cam and the V-Rod were both Porsche contracted projects with once again the ports and combustion chambers finalized by Jerry Branch. That's one of Harley's best kept secrets with them covering it up by saying things like "When OUR engineers sat down to...", yea, their contracted engineers in Stuttgart.

Thanks for watching.

Top tier. I like that, thanks.

Thank you.

We will do a startup one day soon.

@@paulbrodie Awesome!

Yes, that sounds right!

We will do a startup fairly soon. No test ride: no brakes, no clutch, and no transmission.

Thank you.

Just wanna let you know the foundry you are using is not doing a good job theres should not be so much parting line flash from a brand new pattern Check out Highland Foundry They are the best foundry around second to none! Also the time it physically take to make under 100 of that size casting should be 2-3 day plus what ever business bull-$hit involved Hope this type of info helps

Yes, risers. That sounds right.

Joseph, thank for watching.

Thank you Mark.

1) these engines have a recirculating oil system. Where did you get the idea they are total loss? 2) There is so much work that goes into these motors there is no way to make $ selling them. But thanks for watching and commenting.

Hello Vienna! Robert, thanks for watching.

Yes, it was.

Thanks Chris!

Thanks Pat :)

Thank you Marcus.

Thank you Sid.

My pleasure!

Thank you very much. Thanks for subscribing too 😉

Thanks Rick! This was a project that became very important to me, for several reasons, and there wasn't much that was going to stop me.

Thanks tmackinator. I appreciate your comments.

Thanks Sidney.

Thank you very much :)

Thanks!

Thank you Thomas..

Thank you Jim.

Thanks Chris.

Thanks Slimdog72.

Thanks Hepcat. The shrinkage is a percentage factor, based on the type of aluminum, and possibly the size of the casting.

The three questions that I know: (1) How much will it cost? (2) How long will it take? (3) What can possibly go wrong? Thanks for watching 😉

Thank you Stephen!

Thank you 100%

Thank you!

James, if that's a compliment, thank you.

@@paulbrodie I meant it as a SUPREME compliment, sir!

@@jamesmehigan2407 I thank you 🙂

Thank you Thierry.

You mean like a series?

Thanks for stopping by 🙂

Have I peeked, or have I peaked? So hard to tell. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Thank you Kristin!

Robert, thank you!

Thanks Stephen. I do have a lot of fixtures.

Thank you Job :)

Thanks Lee!

Thanks Joe. We made that video: Excelsior Teardown.

Thank you. I'm not sure if other builders have the same approach though...