Engine Shop
Our work on cool engines, both classic and high performance.
Daivd’s high performance motor run stand.
This is Gov’s late 30s/early 40s Drake Knucklehead. It is a water-cooled, custom Knucklehead motor that was used strictly for dirt track racing in the late 30s and early 40s. These types of motors were run in Midget Cars. We are completely rebuilding and having to manufacture some of the parts because of how rare it is. He plans to put it back in a race car.
This motor came from an original unrestored 1939 Knucklehead. The customer wanted to keep the original patina on the motor. We disassembled the motor, cleaned the inside, rebuilt all the internal parts, but left the outside in its original condition. This will look very nice in his unrestored, original 1939. Below is the start-up video.
This customer is from Pennsylvania and brought us this motor that had supposedly just been rebuilt, but he was leery so he wanted us to take it apart and check it out. We found many issues with the motor so we completely rebuilt the motor again. Below is the start-up video.
This is a complete motor rebuild. It has been balanced and blueprinted. The customer was very pleased with the rebuild.