Nightrider

[hozeheads]

I'll start by I have a 07 nightrain with a/c and v&h big rad's exhaust.
I just received my new Xied's in the mail. It took about 1/2 hour to instal on the bike. Very easy job. Worst thing was getting my fat hand under the oil tank. I disconnected my fuel pak and checked my plugs. Plugs were white with black on the threaded area. I started the bike and noticed a very slight difference in exhaust. I noticed it did start much better. I dont think it even turned one full rotation and she fired up. I did about 6 miles in 78 deg. weather (with shorts on) When I got home I put my hand on the rear cylinder I could hold my hand there for a few seconds before removing it. I have no popping between gears, for the most part very little popping on high rev. decel. Its better almost totaly gone. Im waiting a couple hundred miles to check the plugs. Very pleased for a hundred bucks.

[dblKick]

Quick question;.....Someone said they kept their bike bone stock except for this mod, no pipes or A/C work?
Also,..what about warranty?

Thx.....

[DoomBuggy]

I just put a set of XIEDs on my bone stock '08 last night. The difference is noticible, more low end torque, smoother idle, no surging under 2500rpm, pop is gone when I come off the throttle, and most important the boys didn't roast in stop and go traffic this morning. If I miss the rain, the ride home should be a real test as there will be heavy traffic and high temps & humidity. All in all about the best $100 I have spent on a bike yet.

Now to see if I can find some pipes I like!

-Harry

[sportysrock]

Originally Posted by ronyd

Has anybody build the IED's from Steve's diagram? I have all the parts EXCEPT the male pins for the sensor connector. HD does not have part number for the male pins. Looks like they figure you are replacing the connector or the sensor. I got everything made up, just need those damn male pins!!! any clues on where I might find them??

I think this is correct
For a pair of IEDs, Harley part numbers from the '07 Dyna manual are:
2 of, 72009-05 Housing 2-way pin ALL
2 of, 72007-05 Housing 2-way socket GP/GV
8 of, 72011-05 Wire Seal, 16-20 AWG (yellow) ALL GP/GV
4 of, 72006-05 Terminal, socket pins 16-20 AWG GP/GV - female pin
4 of, 72169-07 Terminal, pin 16-20 AWG GP/GV - male pin

[johNTO]

Originally Posted by dblKick

Quick question;.....Someone said they kept their bike bone stock except for this mod, no pipes or A/C work?
Also,..what about warranty?

Thx.....

dblKick, my bike was bone stock when I first added the iED's and thought I would leave it. The bike ran much better but soon the mod bug bit and I added Fullsac's TD conversion kit and ordered the next gen XiED's. (S&S '08 Teardrop AC going on this wknd!)
Once the new stuff was added the bike sounded "strange", unlike what a HD should. So I added SE slipons and the bike opened up and has a nice rumble.
Just about anything you do to your bike may affect the warranty. Good thing about the iED's/XiED's is they can be taken off in 5 minutes if you need to take you bike in.

[smitty901]

I bought a set to play with. Xied's
Installed them on a 2007 Road glide with 16,000 miles on it. The bike is stock and has always run fine.
Install took all of ten minutes.
The bike runs well with them.
Throttle responce is a bit stronger.
Bike sounds a little deeper.
Roll on from 60 in sixth gear is stronger.
As for heat I tested these over two weeks on rides I make alot. I used a thermal gun and took temps in 6 places. I ran the bike with and with out the Xieds many times on the same runs and conditions.
while at times they did lower the temps a small amount it was never over 20 degrees and temps did work thier way back up if the bike was left sitting. However they did appear to slow the heat rise a bit.
They did cost me a small amount of fuel milage.
Over all they do just what Nightrider claims for me. They do NOT reach some of the out landish claim I have seen posted about them.
And heres some food for thought I decide to check temps on my 96 Fatboy with a stage 1 done to it come to find out they are not much different than the 07 ?
With that in mind last weekend at Lacrosse WI there were a lot of motorcycles at the S&S party .
I did random checks of engine temps of all kind of bikes that were riding together.
There was every mod and trick you can image there. Seems none of the temps veryed that much.
I have found that many using a thermal gun are some what fooling them selfs.
It is very improtant that the gun be pointed at the same spot same angle and same distance everytime to get a true reading to compare. And not on crome.
While playing with mine just a hair differnce in some spots made a 40 to 50 degree difference. To get true readings I made two rods taped to gun to hold angle and distance and marked each spot.

[hozeheads]

Well, I have now finally got the bike out to see how everything is with the Xied's. I did about a total of 175 miles, so I removed the plugs and they looked perfect, exhaust tip color looks great.

I was out in 97 deg.heat w/humid conditions in stop and go traffic. I did about 10 miles and never went over 50 mph, when I got home the temp.guage said 217 deg's I thought that was pretty good after all it was dam hot out. I did the same run with my shovelhead(the next day) and the old bike saw 185 deg. w/the temp.guage and for my shovel thats about as high as I have ever seen it. I still get popping on decel but not bad.

If you don't know, I'm running v&h big rads pipes & doherty a/c unit and now Xied's. I also have a oil cooler & I'm also using 93 octane fuel. I still say half of all our problems are that the fuel sucks. Ever since they took 94 octane off the market my old shovel just does'nt run the same and now I get some pop out the carb, and I never got that before, but that's for another thread.

Very happy with the Xied's.

Many thanks to Steve at Nightrider.

[hozeheads]

I posted this on Flash/Xied's I figured I post it here as well

I have just finished a 700 mile run to the Pa Grand Canyon. (It was great)

Now, the Xied's worked great, I was getting 49/50 mpg, running the bike in 86 deg. weather at 55/60 mph the oil temp never saw over 207 deg. I was also riding with my wife and a bag off the back. Oil temp's in stop and go did see 225 deg. If I saw anything around 240 deg. I would have stopped, or got out of there but, it never got that hot. The plugs were slightly tan and the exhaust tips are like a blackish gray.

This product works well for me:

[cruiser85257]

Now there's a description of what a perfect tuned Bike should look like and run like.
I love my XIED's also.