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points to specifically suit our
frame designs."
This permits the Fighter's
132c.i/2163cc air-cooled
"square" triple-camshaft 56.25°
V-twin pushrod S&S engine mea-
suring 111.76 x 111.76mm (4.40 x
4.40 in.) to be used as a fully-
stressed chassis component. In
doing so, S&S has incorporated
Confederate's own cassette-
style stacked-shaft five-speed
gearbox (a format which Confed-
erate was the first to employ two
decades ago, two years before
Yamaha supposedly invented
it on the R1) mounted in a fully
machined transmission housing
bolted directly to the back of the
S&S motor to create a tight unit
construction package. The short
1¾-in/44mm belt primary drive
is mounted on the left, matched
to a multi-plate Bandit dry clutch,
and with chain final drive on the
right—rather than belt—with the
massive amounts of torque and
power on tap. How massive is
that?
MASSAGING THE MOTOR
"To customize the Fighter's S&S
motor we went to Jon Kaase out-
side Atlanta, Georgia, who has
a well-deserved reputation as an
award-winning tuner, especially
of Ford drag-racing motors,"
Adams explains. "He's a cylin-
der head expert who had never
