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Originally Posted by R1Geezrglide

Hmmm, I suppose, then, that all of us that spent money on cams, head work, exhaust and tuning are just hallucinating when we experience the cooler engine temps and greatly improved drivability. Oh, and those dyno sheets that would seem to back that up are printed on toilet paper...I'm glad someone pointed that out to me before I spend again.

Take your dyno sheet and compare it to a Hyabusa, Goldwing or any other bike out there. I never bought any of my Harley's to go fast, to me thats not the point. There is nothing with my engine temp and there never was nor was there anything wrong with the drive-ability of my bike. If there is something wrong with your bike and it sounds like there is, you should take it to the dealer. Let your bike idle at night for an entire tank of gas and take temperature readings with an IR temp gauge on the exhaust pipe 4 inches from the engine head. I can do it to both of my current bikes, an 07 FLHTCU and 05 FXSTS. The Ultra will stay 1,300 degrees and the Springer will stay 350. Neither of the engines have had any work done to them.
I don't want to waste money getting head work done, I don' t want to port, polish, map, blueprint and so on. I don't want to increase the compression ratio to 20:1 where I have to use 116 octane sunoco race gas. I don't want to put spinner hub caps on to 26" rims. I don't need someone to tell me how slow my motorcycle is compared to a stock goldwing all I want is for the exhaust on my 07 to come close to that on my 05.