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Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: Justin_Faithfull on September 17, 2009, 07:32:27 PM

Title: Identify this engine please.
Post by: Justin_Faithfull on September 17, 2009, 07:32:27 PM

Can anyone identify this engine?

Title: Re: Identify this engine please.
Post by: minijonte on September 18, 2009, 10:59:11 PM

hello

i think its a J.A.P engine or one of its "clones".
i have a 1929 J.A.P engine 350 sidevalve that looks identical.

please take a brush and clean it , somewhere around the cylinderbase on the aluminium you should find some numbers
and letters.

then we can find out year and size of the engine.

Minijonte  

Title: Re: Identify this engine please.
Post by: Justin_Faithfull on September 19, 2009, 12:06:34 AM

The engine is not mine & I don't have access to it. It is in the Kilgarvan Motor Museum, Ireland. I thought the oil pump may help identify it.

Title: Re: Identify this engine please.
Post by: Dirt_Track on September 24, 2009, 05:49:54 AM

G'day all
Royal Enfield.
Howard.

Title: Re: Identify this engine please.
Post by: m3bobby on September 24, 2009, 10:28:39 AM

It looks similar to a Enfield 350cc engine but i'm not sure it is. If it is, it should have Royal Enfield cast into the cover the oil pump is attached to.

Title: Re: Identify this engine please.
Post by: m3bobby on September 24, 2009, 10:39:07 AM

Found it, Dirt Track was right, its a 350cc Standard from 1925 ish

http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/images/RoyalEnfield_1925/RoyalEnfield1925-6-Oct-05-Exmoor%20001.jpg