Tom Sifton
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An almost legendary tuner of Harleys. Tom Sifton started out as a sub-dealer in San Francisco in 1929 and became a full dealer in 1933: but he increasingly spent his time tuning Harley-Davidsons for competition. With detailed work on the porting and valves, he was able to make the unpromising 45 into a race winner, but just how he did it remained a secret from fellow tuners and even from the factory's racing department. In fact, Sifton went on making side-valve Harleys go faster for decades, working his magic on the WR racer in the late 1940s and the KR in the 1950s and 1960s.