1912 Excelsior Motorcycle Engine - Breathing Fire For The First Time In Over 7 Decades!

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7 жыл бұрын

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What's up KZfaq?!
Many of you know me for the music that I've put out, and the tutorial videos that I've made in the past. However, music is only a small part of my busy life, and I think it's time I give you a glimpse into the rest of my world.
By trade, I'm a restoration artist for my parents' business: All Classic Motors. We specialize in restoration and parts sales for 1960's high-end Fords like Mustangs, Shelby's, and Cobras.
At night, I work on growing my own business: Larson MasterWorks.
I specialize in the restoration and preservation of anything involving vintage automobiles and motorcycles.
This engine has been a project of mine for a few months, and I'm proud to say it has reached the landmark status that I aimed to achieve when I first started on it: It is now an indisputable fact that this is a running engine.
It was a very humbling experience to be able to successfully resurrect such a rare piece of motorcycle history, and I'm also very excited to announce that as of now this engine is FOR SALE!
For those viewing in the future, if the engine has already sold, I will edit this description section and mark as "SOLD".
Serious inquiries: Larsonthedrummerboy@gmail.com
or
Facebook: David Lee Larson
or
Instagram: davidwiththelonghair
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Пікірлер: 186

@tristantruebody9793 6 жыл бұрын

early motorcycles are really just pure art

@ushoys 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but art and museum pieces is all they're good for. Just 3 horsepower from 500CC. Hopelessly crude, difficult and almost useless as a means of transportation today.

@TC_Connection 4 жыл бұрын

Art on Wheels!

@matteomarmiroli1713 3 жыл бұрын

@@ushoys and very fun to ride 😂

@daveg1208 5 жыл бұрын

I love those old engines and when one has been brought back to life, that makes it even better. Thank you for sharing.

@rexluminus9867 6 жыл бұрын

👍Great! My grandfather had one long long ago. This is the first time I ever seen & heard one except on picture. Thank you for posting it.

@nathanluciow5938 7 жыл бұрын

A bass singer who restores vintage engines? It doesn't get much manlier than that.

@Daydreaminginmono 6 жыл бұрын

Wow that thing is gorgeous

@caesarillion 3 жыл бұрын

Totally authentic. I love that spark plug. Hope I can do same with my 1920 Harley twin. Thanks, Paul in Thailand

@thatoldbob7956 6 жыл бұрын

Congratulation! A beauty. I built some of 1939 only. Thanks for posting.

@tyrssen1 5 жыл бұрын

Now, THAT was cool. Thanks for posting.

@valic000 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic rebuild!! I saw yesterday a old clip from the factory...Very nice indeed!! Thumbs up!

@idezilla 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!!!

@davidlarson3905 6 жыл бұрын

Paul Barton It was a beauty - kinda miss this engine, but I'm excited to see it run in the 2018 Cannonball Race!

@P61guy61 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for posting

@dfro.9770 6 жыл бұрын

Very cool.

@kafkastrial8650 5 жыл бұрын

Inlet over exhaust ...lovely.

@charlesparr3296 4 жыл бұрын

Freaking awesome!!!! Love it!

@lpd1snipe 6 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@marcelofilippi2984 6 жыл бұрын

LINDO EU AMO MOTORES ANTIGOS

@johnbravo7542 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds wicked

@southwired1321 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding...

@fen7905 2 жыл бұрын

idk why this was recommended to me but it was cool

@lukaspettersson5643 6 жыл бұрын

Damn, that's cool.

@ZerokillerOppel1 6 жыл бұрын

Just...wow!

@johnzuck6163 5 жыл бұрын

Wow a flathead and overhead all in one nice!

@AbrahamkpovocPembertonMascaroc 3 жыл бұрын

¡Gracias!

@thra5herxb12s 3 жыл бұрын

FIRE !!

@anythingoldmechanical 6 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@wapartist 5 жыл бұрын

Flat head everything Exposed pushrods Love it and shot so well

@truthhurts1785 4 жыл бұрын

Now that is cool

@jeanlawson9133 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😎

@mr.apparatus9108 7 жыл бұрын

that was awesome!

@davidlarson3905 7 жыл бұрын

Mr. Apparatus Thank you!

@opecisdharmono2157 4 жыл бұрын

Nice old engine..i like..

@Alejandjob333 7 жыл бұрын

oh hell yeahhhh

@davidlarson3905 7 жыл бұрын

alejandro bermudez 😎

@slowpokebr549 6 жыл бұрын

What a sweetheart!

@tomhookhook4746 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@nikolaishriver7922 6 жыл бұрын

Balanced like a quarter standing up lol.. This would be the most boss engine ever to put on something like a moped

@drmachinewerke1 5 жыл бұрын

Nikolai Shriver Needs to be in a frame

@whalesong999 5 жыл бұрын

IIRC, this engine, like other Excelsior engines of the period has a steel or iron piston. Bet the vibration could chip some teeth in a moped. XD..!

@brianshoubert7803 6 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@76629online 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a real barnburner.

@jonnyrox116 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much you had to "dumb" the fuel down? Didn't those have a passive intake valve?

@jimclarke1108 5 жыл бұрын

Cool

@TheGearhead222 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful-What weight oil does it use? John in Texas

@gaddigadderiabhotiaworld 5 жыл бұрын

Good

@tobuslieven 5 жыл бұрын

Wow.

@Pushyhog 6 жыл бұрын

Put tank, throttle w/cable & housing, exhaust pipe on it. Some gages. Can you rubber mount it?

@hobbyman1734 3 жыл бұрын

GOOD

@budspaulding7121 4 жыл бұрын

Very X-celent!

@ww321 6 жыл бұрын

I have a picture of my great uncle and his brother riding his Excelisor

@rickz7657 6 жыл бұрын

kwelll uncle !!!!

@willvalenzuela6707 5 жыл бұрын

WOW

@eduardomiotto 5 жыл бұрын

AWE!

@bonkeydollocks1879 5 жыл бұрын

Will it fit in my Honda?

@garthdonovan5373 2 жыл бұрын

This is cool I’ve got the spryt motor anyone know if it’ll run standing up like this ?

@herbwag6456 5 жыл бұрын

No wonder they called them "infernal machines."

@motocrosspk 5 жыл бұрын

*jaw drops*

@dbelflower6793 6 жыл бұрын

Fucking awesome brother🤙

@grahambird3112 6 жыл бұрын

An exhaust pipe would be good on a start up ... and a domestic fan blowing on the Barrel fins !

@whalesong999 5 жыл бұрын

Good idea. Those old exhaust valves weren't of the best materials and would warp running out a short stack. A longer pipe would help prevent that. They used long ex. systems on some WW1 aircraft engines to avoid warping as I understand.

@carlosalbertojacquesepulve1269 4 жыл бұрын

Hermoso

@williamkober6637 3 жыл бұрын

sounds good, but labors like timing may be off a notch?

@captlarry-3525 6 жыл бұрын

Great ! I had a chance to buy a similar motor in Mexico ( no carb) in the 70's, and I didn't do it. Too heavy to carry, and I was too stupid it have it boxed and shipped ! It was kicking around on a shelf in a place that dealt in agricultural pumps. Barn find I suppose.

@gordonmusic6936 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@Francesca-Franzese 6 жыл бұрын

Crazy that this engine was around the time titanic sunk

@Guilherme65919 6 жыл бұрын

botar na bros

@Chris-hq7nl 6 жыл бұрын

So we are looking at an overhead intake valve and a flathead exhaust valve?

@davidlarson3905 6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Mondy basically yes. These were commonly referred to as F-Heads or IOE engines [intake over exhaust]. This design died around 1930 with Harley Davidson being one of the last to transition into a flathead. Indian made the change in 1916 though.

@Chris-hq7nl 6 жыл бұрын

Wild! Twin cam then?

@davidlarson3905 6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Mondy I can't remember exactly how the internals are laid out [I rebuilt this engine almost 2 years ago], but I'm pretty sure it's one camshaft with two different cams on the same shaft in front of the cam gear. There are roller-style cam followers that ride on the cams, and those lift the pushrods for the intake and exhaust valves.

@RajeevKumarRajeevkumar 5 жыл бұрын

@@davidlarson3905 kll Karthika fighterp डाकिया psychiatric

@davidboardman8590 5 жыл бұрын

Some engines of this vintage had automatic inlet valves . They had a fairly light spring that held a plate on its seat and compression held it tight when the piston was on its way up.

@JimProng 6 жыл бұрын

Overhead valve inlet and side valve exhaust?

@davidlarson3905 6 жыл бұрын

Jim Prong Yep!

@mrdanforth3744 6 жыл бұрын

It's called an F head, was a popular hi perf design for cars and motorcycles, continued to be used until the 1960s.

@ollilehtonen6764 6 жыл бұрын

This engine looks like a tileable design. Someone should bolt three of these together lol.

@terracethornhill 5 жыл бұрын

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step. - Daniel D. Palmer

@Hermiwalle 6 жыл бұрын

Wait so its ohv and side valve?

@davidlarson3905 6 жыл бұрын

Herman Wallin technically speaking: yes! Overhead intake, sidevalve [flathead] exhaust. Commonly referred to as the "F-Head" design or the "IOE" design [Intake Over Exhaust]. Very common for early pre 1920s American motorcycles. Harley Davidson used the design until 1929.

@kjellringstrom6217 6 жыл бұрын

500cc and 4 horsepower. Not everything was better back in the days.

@trexthepony8614 6 жыл бұрын

Kjell Ringström don't let the small hp rating fool you. The ft-lb tourqe would be massive on this engine with that displacement, probably near 45 ft lbs which is massive for a light bike in those days.

@foureye7058 6 жыл бұрын

Mhmm. It's part of why people always scoff at Briggs flatheads, fantastic torque and very low power ratings. So many people nowadays only know pit bike engines and modern Honda clones.

@peglegnoid6139 6 жыл бұрын

Was a day when combustion motors weighed 100 lbs. per horsepower.

@trexthepony8614 6 жыл бұрын

Pegleg Noid your right in a way

@dadoVRC 6 жыл бұрын

Trex thepony seems you need to understand the meaning of torque and power. 4hp are 4hp, torque is the result of the power on RPM. With an adequate lever you can have enough torque to break earth in half, but you can do it in ages, because you have little power. Power is the only important thing, torque (at wheel) comes from gearbox.

@alejandrodejesusrodriguezq4880 4 жыл бұрын

How much vibration oooo mm g !!!!!!!

@user-uu7lv1tf7g 5 жыл бұрын

Мощь !

@aljazzizek7496 6 жыл бұрын

Sized at the end 😂

@topkek7003 6 жыл бұрын

How many rpms?

@davidlarson3905 6 жыл бұрын

Top Kek Not sure how fast this one is spinning in the vid [someone calculate plz lol], but singles of this era usually topped out around 2500 rpm. Race models of this era were modified and pushed around 3500 though I believe.

@robyarnold8343 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@yakamarezlife 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have the bike too?

@ThinkingSpeck 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't know motorbikes even existed that far back.

@davidlarson3905 7 жыл бұрын

ThinkingSpeck I'm about to get one in that actually goes another decade further back in time! ^_^

@CZ350tuner 6 жыл бұрын

The motorcycle was invented in 1882 by Gottlieb and Daimler. Their machine had a wooden frame and solid cast iron wheels. It was to demonstrate that a liquid fuel (internal combustion engines were stationary domestic gas powered things normally) could be utilised instead. They used benzene (which is extracted from coal) and ethanol alcohol. It wasn't until the 1900's that petroleum, normally the 46% left over waste product from oil refining and back then dumped into rivers, was realised to be better as it didn't cause damage to engines and fuel systems like ethanol does. 4 years later Daimler made the mistake of inventing the first automobile, which have caused most motorcycle accidents and deaths on roads since then.

@IamIronManUK 7 жыл бұрын

Now harmonize with it...

@davidlarson3905 7 жыл бұрын

IamIronManUK Hey it's not a bad idea 😎

@teddybeer1757 4 жыл бұрын

Is that a four stroke engine?

@yasons9531 5 жыл бұрын

what its price can buy

@canaltiodocapiadas 6 жыл бұрын

motorzao em

@dannytaylor7035 5 жыл бұрын

How much for the motor

@izzatfauzimustafa6535 5 жыл бұрын

Which octane does this engine require?

@danconlan64 5 жыл бұрын

no more than 60

@salemthecat7260 6 жыл бұрын

It might need a balance shaft.

@loosenoose 6 жыл бұрын

The akra race exhaust ads another half hp

@supertrinigamer 6 жыл бұрын

1 valve? How's that work?

@merlinch4256 5 жыл бұрын

There are two valves, in fact: one is on the top "rear"of the engine (inlet), the exhaust one is behind the exhaust nut, one can see its spring and rod assembly under the nut. One sees it moving while the engine revs

@yasons9531 5 жыл бұрын

hi do you sale this engine

@Harry-kr4jq 4 жыл бұрын

Use a fan to blow air to cool the engine.

@christiancosworth 4 жыл бұрын

This motor for path race bike 1900"s...😳

@alychannel743 6 жыл бұрын

Xlis this four stroke engine please

@dodo7432 5 жыл бұрын

the right tihing alway run

@jameswoodard8414 5 жыл бұрын

your Ign Timing sounds as if it needs to be Advanced some

@CarlosHenriqueNoronhadeAguiar 6 жыл бұрын

RIP EARS

@thra5herxb12s 5 жыл бұрын

It's called a valve lifter.

@saiello2061 4 жыл бұрын

I think they used to call them 'bone shakers'.

@duggydugg3937 6 жыл бұрын

One ohv.. one valve in cylinder

@AzeezOverseas 5 жыл бұрын

My phone is shaking.

@renatodias7035 5 жыл бұрын

Saturn V launch is less noisy.

@teddybeer1757 4 жыл бұрын

JESUS THOSE VIBRATIONS! MUST RATTLE YOUR TEETH OUT.

@agungpratama9286 5 жыл бұрын

moto war !!!

@thewatchman3918 3 жыл бұрын

Probably run better with exhaust system🤔

@crazyfvck 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool! :) I wish I had the talent/money to do stuff like this. I have a pre-1910 single-cylinder Hedstrom-style motorcycle engine in my collection. Unfortunately, it is missing parts, and I will never be able to get it running. In the very least, wish I could figure out who produced it. It's really weird that there is no info cast into the exterior parts. Anyway, I think I will have to sell it soon. It's gonna break my heart to do it, because I always wanted to build a custom boardtrack racer bike, but sometimes you just need to face reality. Perhaps the person who buys it will succeed where I have failed :)

@brotangyoust9252 4 жыл бұрын

Just out of curiosity if ya don't mind me asking what's missing? With modern cnc machines and 3d printing some parts can be made fairly easily, cheaply and fast. Finding original bits may be impossible but make new? Might be the go?