Its my understanding that 360 motors are smoother because they fire evenly (every 360 degrees of rotation) but 180 motors are better balanced as the pistons and rods are attached at opposing sides of the crank. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: surfswab <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 00:49:39 To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] I've been schooled -- 180 vs. 360 crankshafts Gave a poster bogus info a couple days ago about his '93 250 NH. Crank is a 360, not a 180. Apparently, Honda equipped various model twins with one or the other in the past, before settling on the 360. Such engines are known as parallet twins or, more rarely, "straight-twos." Since I'm an admitted technodolt, I won't display my engineering ignorance trying to explain the relative merits of each. But using those phrases as Google search terms turns up a plethora of discussions about them. I like that word...plethora, though. Scrabble anyone? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
