CONFEDERATE P51 FIGHTER COMBAT
FIRST RIDE
P82
worked on a motorcycle engine
before—but he's created a huge
amount more power and torque
for us and our customers. Jon
basically took the S&S heads,
welded in the whole squish area
and re-cut it, changed the valve
angle, reshaped the combustion
chamber, and gas-flowed the
head. He raised the compres-
sion a bit to 10.3:1 [from 10:1],
and fitted a different piston, with
the end result that he got 209
horsepower at the crank from
our motor, running with an open
exhaust. Jon sends the heads
to S&S for them to install on our
motors, though we've detuned
them by adding a silenced
exhaust and all the street-legal
niceties, so in production form
we have 145 horsepower at
5200 rpm, and 160 lb-ft of
torque, both of them at the rear
wheel. But we know from Jon's
work that any customer who
wants to tune the motor will
get an awful lot of extra perfor-
mance."
Chambers added, "The P51
nomenclature relates to the
51mm intake ports he's installed.
The fact that it's also the des-
ignation of the P-51 Mustang
fighter aircraft."
Kaase's work means that in
stock form the new P51 Fighter
is the most powerful Confed-
erate model yet to reach the
marketplace, so it should go
faster than the 176.458 mph that
customer James Hoegh man-
aged on a stock X-Wedge pow-
ered Hellcat at the Bonneville
Salt Flats in 2014 to set a new
AMA Land Speed Record for the
3000cc class.
SOUTHERN COMFORT
As soon as you straddle the new
G2 Fighter you realize what a
completely different motorcycle
this is from its predecessor. For
a start, the über-minimalistic
seat on that which seemed
practically an afterthought has
now been replaced by a well-
