American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 224 March 2018 | Page 34

Roland Sands Design: From hard parts to apparel, kudos to Roland and Summer Sands and team for reaching
beyond the day job and “spreading the word” with initiatives such as the company’s Hooligan Racing Series and
last October’s first annual Moto Beach Classic at the Bolsa Chica State Beach at Huntington, California – “bring me
your bored, un-led and un-biked huddled masses yearning to ride free”! www.rolandsands.com
Wizards: The Hanover, Minnesota
based company specializes in easy
to use professional quality
motorcycle cleaners and detailing
products for all areas of the
motorcycle, including Mist-N-
Shine, Mystic Spray Wax, Leather
Plus, Wipe Down, Tire & Vinyl
Shine, All Wheel & Tire Cleaner,
Bug Release, Power Clean, Shine
Master and Wizards Wash;
www.wizardsproducts.com
Cometic: The Concord, Ohio based manufacturer’s stock replacement and
big bore gasket and cam change gasket kits for Harley’s M-8 touring
engines that cater to the two different cylinder head designs (models with
and without fairing lowers have differing cooling configurations). In sizes
ranging from the stock 107 and 114 cubic inch displacements to a big
4,500-inch big bore size, all told, there are nine different cylinder head
gaskets in the company’s M-8 line-up, along with new base gaskets and
the full cam change kit. Sales Director Jason Moses told AMD: “While the
differences between all those gaskets are small and subtle, they’re
critically important. “The oil cooled heads, the ones on bikes without lower
fairings, have one “teardrop” shaped port close to the bore, and that is
surrounded with an embossed surface. With this head design the M-8 big
bore is limited to 4,200 inches with no modifications to the heads. Any
larger than that would require the oil port to be welded shut and the head
resurfaced. Our gasket for these oil cooled heads, the ones with the
teardrop shaped port and embossed ring around it, will work on both oil
cooled and coolant cooled heads with stock to a 4,200 inch bore with no
head surface modifications. The second M-8 head design, the one used on
bikes with lower fairings, radiators and coolant, has two round coolant
ports set significantly further back from the bore than the oil cooling port.
With this design, the big bore can safely go all the way to 4,500 inches
with no coolant port modifications, and Cometic has gaskets in those
bigger 4.250, 4.320 and 4.500 sizes”; www.cometic.com